| Description |
1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gingko library art series
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Gingko Library art series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreward / Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber -- 'Buildings that fill my eye': an introduction to the Architectural heritage of Yemen / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- Part 1. Architectural Traditions of Yemen. Early and medieval Sanaa: the evidence on the ground / Ronald Lewcock -- Rasulid architecture / Noha Sadek -- The Bani Tahir and the 'Amiriyya Madrasa: architecture and politics / Venetia Porter -- Some Sufi mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster -- Mocha: maritime architecture on Yemen's Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um -- Construction, development and destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelag Weir -- The domestic architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: building attitudes and formal identities / Fernando Varanda -- The art of building tower houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome -- The forts of Yemen : the example of the Citadel of Ta'izz / Noha Sadek -- The minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- Part 2. Preserving Yemen's Architectural Heritage. The campaign to preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock -- Preserving Shibam: the city of towering mud houses / Tom Leiermann -- Preserving and transmitting traditional building techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore -- Majil and Birka: cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer -- Part 3. Making Space & Place in Yemen. Paradise built: Al-Shahari's description of Sanaa in the twelfth/eighteenth century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith -- A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman -- Bodies on the move: gender dynamics on a Sanaani minibus / Gabriele vom Bruck -- The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley -- Views of Aden / St John Simpson -- Afterword. Preservation of cultural heritage is the preservation of cultural identity and belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh and Fahd Al-Quraishi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Yemen (Republic) -- History.
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Architecture. |
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Yemen (Republic) |
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History. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Marchand, Trevor Hugh James.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Architectural heritage of Yemen. London : Gingko Library, 2017 9781909942073 (OCoLC)979568167 |
| ISBN |
9781909942097 (electronic book) |
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190994209X (electronic book) |
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9781909942073 |
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1909942073 |
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