Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East

Viewpoints Special Edition Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East The Middle East Institute ...

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Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East A Special Edition of Viewpoints Introduction 6 Essays Labyrinth: Moroccan Medinas, ...

The Reconstruction of Abu Dhabi’s Central Market, From the Top Down: Aerial and Satellite Views of the Middle East’s by Yasser ...

MEI’s special edition of Viewpoints on “Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East” is an opportunity to cel- ebrate the beaut ...

Labyrinth: Moroccan Medinas Simon O’Meara Simon O’Meara is Assistant Professor of History of Art at the American University of K ...

O’Meara... different morphology, and so forth. Space prevents the enumeration of each stage’s defining characteris- tics (suppos ...

O’Meara... mences anew: a return exit or a departure for a new center, one im- material and spiritual, apparent solely from wher ...

Tourism and Preservation in Colonial North Africa Brian McLaren Brian L. McLaren is an Associate Professor in the Department of ...

McLaren... auto transportation. By 1928 this system included 43 hotels and 19 automobile itineraries that covered some 25,000 ki ...

McLaren... ary. Even though these projects were directed by the most respected scholars in the field, their preservation emphasi ...

Cairo’s Plurality of Architectural Trends and the Continuous Search for Identity Ashraf M. Salama Egyptian politics, knowledge, ...

Salama... an overheated real estate market. Clearly, the private sector targets strategic locations inside the urban perimeter o ...

Salama... and allowed themselves essentially to copy and paste from the past. The Khan Al Azizia project features such superfici ...

Egypt: Modernity and Identity Nasser Rabbat Nasser Rabbat, B. Arch (Damascus), M. Arch (UCLA), PhD (MIT), is the Aga Khan Profes ...

Rabbat... Headquarters, built in 1930 by Mustafa Fahmi. A counter-style, the Neo-Pharaonic, was limited to mostly Art-Deco comme ...

gaged in the design of various historicist styles to satisfy the growing demand for a contemporary Islamic architecture. The exa ...

Jerusalem Architecture: Old Is Bitter, New Is Ugly Annabel Jane Wharton Dr. Annabel Jane Whar- ton is the William B. Hamilton Pr ...

Wharton... its Muslim buildings for the rebuilding of the Temple. Other sites of contention are less familiar. The occasional er ...