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Author : Stephen Gardiner
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kuwait, the Making of a City written by Stephen Gardiner and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahjoob Zweiri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029523
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Making of Contemporary Kuwait written by Mahjoob Zweiri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contemporary history, governance, foreign policy, political economy, culture, and society of Kuwait. It highlights the dynamics of the country, putting forward both an overview of each subject covered and new research findings. It begins by providing a historical understanding of state formation and goes on to examine state structure, including the ruling monarchy, state legitimacy, and the creation of the Constitution and the National Assembly. It considers foreign policy, including the tools of diplomacy, the state’s regional and international approach, and the factors that have formed and reformed Kuwait’s strategic policy in the global arena. It assesses the economy, including rentierism, the labour market both for locals and for migrants, the class system, and the process of Kuwaitization; and it discusses Kuwaiti society and national identity, as well as investigates issues of women, civil society, youth, and the Bidoon minority. Overall, the book provides a full and detailed analysis of contemporary Kuwait and of the factors which are bringing about new developments.
Author : Subhi Abdullah Al-Mutawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863563898
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (638 download)
Download or read book History of Architecture in Old Kuwait City written by Subhi Abdullah Al-Mutawa and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Kuwait Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Fabbri
Publisher : Niggli
ISBN 13 : 9783721209488
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Modern Architecture Kuwait written by Roberto Fabbri and published by Niggli. This book was released on 2016 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First systematic analysis of modern architecture in Kuwait based on several years of research.From the late 1940s at the inception of the oil exporting industry, via political independence in 1961, through to the late 1980s when Kuwait was invaded, the citystate experienced an extraordinary social and civic transformation, deeply inscribed in its built environment. The old coastal town was radically transformed through architecture and urban planning in the process of gaining wealth and autonomy. Important foreign and local architects found here the possibility to expand their professional horizons and the challenge to compose an entire city, creating important examples of Late Modern Architecture during these four decades. This publication is based on several years of multidisciplinary research, featuring a repertoire of more than 150 buildings, all fully illustrated and analyzed in order to understand the dynamics of change and innovation they represent. By reading the presence of the building in the urban context at the architectural level, this volume examines a wide range of buildings selected for their specific qualitative aspects, as examples of particular design methodologies or typologies, or else for the various forms of adaptation to the peculiarities of local environmental conditions.
Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134128215
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Evolving Arab City written by Yasser Elsheshtawy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection€reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.
Author : Saba George Shiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kuwait Urbanization written by Saba George Shiber and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yara Hadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming Modern Architecture written by Yara Hadi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like many cities, Kuwait suffers the remnants of unintended urban void after careless redevelopment. One way of addressing these issues is reinvigorating the notion of monument, or a destination to which people actually desire to go. The life of a city is ultimately the life of the pedestrian. How we reach certain places and what we do once we are there define the urban experience. Equally important is the network of paths and directions to and from these places and ultimately between the people themselves. Manakh, in Arabic, means climate as well as market. By extending the historical souk into the Souk Al Manakh and reintegrating the two, a commercial destination will be formed through a series of weaving ramps where people from all parts of the city can engage with one another and the city itself through a new journey that reveals an urban visual narrative of Kuwait City." - abstract.
Author : Vladimir Kulic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350014427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Second World Postmodernisms written by Vladimir Kulic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity find their application in the architecture of the socialist Second World? How do we explain the retreat into paper architecture and theoretical discussion in societies still nominally devoted to socialist modernization? Exploring the intersection of two areas of growing scholarly interest - postmodernism and the architecture of the former socialist world - this edited collection stakes out new ground in charting architecture's various transformations in the 1970s and 80s. Fourteen essays together explore the question of whether or not architectural postmodernism had a specific Second World variant. The collection demonstrates both the unique nature of Second World architectural phenomena and also assesses connections with western postmodernism. The case studies cover the vast geographical scope from Eastern Europe to China and Cuba. They address a wealth of aesthetic, discursive and practical phenomena, interpreting them in the broader socio-political context of the last decades of the Cold War. The result provides a greatly expanded map of recent architectural history, which redefines postmodernist architecture in a more theoretically comprehensive and global way.
Author : Subhi Abdullah Al-Mutawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351660659
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Kuwait City Parks written by Subhi Abdullah Al-Mutawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study, first published in 1985, was to investigate the management practices of the Kuwait City Park System and the relationship of these practices to user satisfaction. The decision making process affecting the parks had been fragmented between three agencies, and this created conflicts in different goals, responsibilities and objectives. The study shows how much impact the uncoordinated and fragmented decisions had on user satisfaction in the parks.
Author : Laura Hindelang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110714736
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Iridescent Kuwait written by Laura Hindelang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Erdöl-Moderne ist ein lokales Phänomen der Geschichte Kuwaits, aber auch ein globales Ereignis und massgebliche Ursache des Klimawandels. Die Studie untersucht die Rolle von Erdöl in der visuellen Kultur Kuwaits im Kontext von Ideologien wie Modernisierung und politischer Repräsentation. Der Begriff des Irisierenden, eines in Regenbogenfarben schillernden Farbenspiels, dient als analytisch-ästhetisches Konzept, um den umstrittenen Beitrag von Erdöl in der Moderne zu diskutieren: sowohl Wohlstandsversprechen wie auch destruktive Kraft in soziokultureller und ökologischer Hinsicht. Das Buch versammelt eine Fülle historischen Bildmaterials, darunter Luft- und Farbfotografien, Briefmarken, Stadtpläne und Architekturdarstellungen, um unter Berücksichtigung von zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Golfregion das visuelle Erbe der Erdöl- Moderne kritisch zu hinterfragen.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Housing and Urban Development in Kuwait written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317291905
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Modern Gulf States written by Rosemarie Said Zahlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf States are the focus of great international interest – yet their fabulous evolution from pearl-fishing to oil-drilling, their individuality and variety, are screened by a thick cloud of petro-dollars. This book, first published in 1989, tells the story of their formation, their evolution from colonial dependency to statehood, and their transformation by oil. The result is an informed and balanced picture of the political, economic, religious and cultural character of the area. It is also a story of the powerful families and their sheikhs that have had to hurry these states into the modern world; of the interchanging role of political and economic dependence, the influence of the oil industry, the influx of workers from abroad, and the varying forces acting on the Gulf States.
Author : Roberto Fabbri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000455572
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf written by Roberto Fabbri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book explores the display of transnational architectural practices resulting in different notions of locality, cosmopolitanism, and modernity. Contextually, with an eye on the present, the book reflects on the initiatives that recently re-engaged with the once ville moderne which, meanwhile, lost its pivotal function and meaning. A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced during the modernization era has the potential to narrate the social growth, East–West dynamics, and citizens’ memories of the recent past. Reading obsolescence as an opportunity, the book looks into this topic from a cross-country perspective. It maps, reads and analyses the notion of modern heritage in relation to the contemporary city and looks beyond physical transformations to embrace cultural practices and strategies of urban re-appropriation. It interrogates the value of modern architecture in the non-West, examining how academic research is expanding the debate on Gulf urbanism, and describes how practices of reuse could foster rethinking neglected areas, also addressing land consumption in the GCC. Presenting a diverse and geographically inclusive authorship, which combines established and up-and-coming researchers in the field, this is an important reference for academics and upper-level students interested in heritage studies, post-colonial urbanism, and architecture in the non-West. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Dalal Musaed Alsayer
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638408254
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 written by Dalal Musaed Alsayer and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Kuwait as a case study and Pan Arab Modernism as a lens, this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history. The current practice of architecture in Kuwait, the Gulf and the larger Middle East, is typically a-contextual and lacking any understanding of the local context. The architectural history, on the other hand, ignores the larger context of the Middle East and the influence of Pan Arabism is not configured into many analyses. Thus, this project seeks to tackle both. By providing a [re]contextualizing of the architectural history of Kuwait and bringing forgotten protagonists back into the dialogue, a nuanced reading of Pan Arab Modern architecture emerges. This book It aims to create a “knowledge generation” which can [re]define how a local generation is being influence on the ground. CONTRIBUTORS: Prof. Eve Blau (GSD, Harvard) on the influence of Oil on Urbanism; Prof. Michael Kubo (Univ. of Houston, Texas) on the relationship between The Architects Collaborative (TAC) and the local Kuwaiti firm Pan Arab Consulting Engineers (now PACE); Caecilia L. Pieri ( Associate Researcher - Institut Français du Proche-Orient) on the influence of Iraq modernisation in Kuwait; Prof. Iain Jackson (Univ. of Liverpool) on the influence of British Architects on the Middle East (tropical architecture, expertise); Prof. Hyun-Tae Jung (Lehigh University) on the relationship between Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and PACE and the photographic work of the artist Antje Hanebeck commission by PACE for this project.
Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987993
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book City on a Hill written by Alex Krieger and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.
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ISBN 13 : 9781942084662
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Women of Kuwait written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since moving to New York from Kuwait City Maha Alasaker learned that the everyday American has no conception of what daily life is like for women in modern-day Kuwait. Seeking to address this, Alasaker began making portraits of women in their bedrooms and asking them about their lives. This intimate collection of environmental portraits provides a never-before-seen look at what it means to be a young woman in Kuwait.
