Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East
efeller Museum designed in the 1930s — acknowledge the local scale and forms even when they introduced modern European styles an ...
Global Capital, Urban Regeneration, and Heritage Conservation in the Levant Rami Daher Dr. Rami Daher is a prac- ticing architec ...
in a very exclusive urban setting where the whole notion of urban memory and property ownership was expunged.^2 This reconstruct ...
Daher... vention in the form of architectural cosmetics affecting the historic urban tissue of the city without a serious attemp ...
The Contemporary Built Environment in the Arab Middle East Mohammad al-Asad Dr. Mohammad al-Asad is a Jordanian architect and ar ...
al-Asad... numerous urban centers in the region, such projects were overdue. Important examples of them have taken place in Sana ...
al-Asad... about 2005. Since then, colossal projects inspired by the Dubai model have been conceived throughout the region. Comp ...
Conservatism versus Modernism: Hesitant Urban Identity in Saudi Arabia Mashary A. Al-Naim Dr. Mashary A. Al-Naim, Associate Prof ...
Al-Naim... tions. Individuals may also seek to protect and enhance identification already made.”^4 Rapoport presents two definit ...
Al-Naim... Konash^9 agrees, criticizing Western firms that practiced in Saudi Arabia for their lack of knowledge about the local ...
through extensive alterations to those houses later on. In the 1980s things changed. There was a mix of Western, traditional, an ...
values of ordinary people. This led to what can be called a “hesitant urban identity,” exacerbated in part by governmental plann ...
Old Heritage, New Heritage: Building in Sana‘a, Yemen Michele Lamprakos In the 1970s, when UNESCO’s interest in Sana‘a began, th ...
Lamprakos... Residents of Sana’a use the term to describe new buildings that incorporate elements of the local style — patterned ...
Lamprakos... might ease the transition, is very young in Yemen and lacks a culture of internal critique. The ustas, too, recogni ...
Lamprakos... usta’s hand is often restricted by conservation guidelines that do little to foster creative solutions. In the new ...
Tall Identity...Lost Sustainability Yasser Mahgoub and Anas Al-Omaim Yasser Mahgoub is As- sistant Professor of Archi- tecture, ...
Mahgoub and Al-Omaim... environment.”^1 Demands for sustainable architecture started to appear not only to save planet earth fro ...
Mahgoub and Al-Omaim... Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified building in Kuwait will start constructio ...
the use of bicycles as an alternative means of transportation, and supports saving spots in the building for bike storage. This ...
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