Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1118719883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by:presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of placeintroducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary designexploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecturediscussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy.Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
From the Back CoverArchitects are building in the Gulf and across the Middle East as if there were no context. It does this by:presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of placeintroducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary designexploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecturediscussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy. Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq. . The iconic abstract architecture that dominates current worldwide architectural discourse and practice is being replicated across the Middle East, even in countries that have rich past and current architectural and urb
Hassan Radoine is an architecture curator, critic, educator, author and consultant. He received his first Architect Professional Diploma from the École Nationale d’Architecture. A contributor to several journals and books, his research and practice explores architecture and urbanism in the Middle East and