Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East
Doha: Between Making an Instant City and Skirmishing Globalization Ashraf M. Salama Dr. Ashraf M. Salama holds BSc, MSc, and PhD ...
Salama... the majority of which are designed by well known international firms and star architects. Despite the shortcomings inh ...
Salama... As the discourse continues on the dialectic relationships between tradition and modernity, the contemporary and the hi ...
Salama... overall expression of the building demonstrates masterful integration of solid geometry and a skillful use of color an ...
The Reconstruction of Abu Dhabi’s Central Market Yasser Elsheshtawy Yasser Elsheshtawy is Associate Professor of Architecture at ...
Elsheshtawy... accounts describe it as being as “old as Abu Dhabi, an intrinsic part of the city.”^2 However, the sense of a cur ...
Elsheshtawy... Following the demolition, a new scheme was introduced by the UK’s Foster Architects, replacing the Arab architect ...
CONCLUSION: FORGING A NEW MIDDLE EAST “A city that had no pity on itself or its citizens: a mound of debris that rose higher eve ...
Dubai: Selling a Past to Finance the Future? Kevin Mitchell Kevin Mitchell is an Asso- ciate Professor in the De- partment of Ar ...
Mitchell... of the importance of responding to local conditions. A prime ex- ample was the National Bank of Dubai designed by Jo ...
Mitchell... liberate emphasis on the external appearance of the building, epito- mizes the search for the iconic. The soon to be ...
Modernizing and De-Modernizing: Notes on Tehran Mina Marefat Mina Marefat, PhD, AIA, is an architect, ur- ban designer, and ar- ...
Marefat... modernity. The clock soon stopped working but the city’s temporal life continued moving along to the periodic calls t ...
Marefat... a crucial nexus in the global flows of capital, people, and politics. MUHAMMAD REzA SHAH AND TEHRAN AS EPICENTER (194 ...
TEHRAN AFTER 1979 Turning inward, Tehran and Iran became paradoxically both less and more global after 1979. As the gates to the ...
Marefat... Figure 10: Persepolis columns Figure 11: Muhammad Reza Shah Figure 12: Shahyad Monument, renamed Freedom Square Figur ...
Bam: Rebuilding a Historic City Mina Marefat Mina Marefat, PhD, AIA, is an architect, ur- ban designer, and ar- chitectural hist ...
Marefat... almost 85% of Bam’s housing, mostly of adobe construction, was destroyed in the earthquake. Early on, it became clear ...
Marefat... medical, community, and educational facilities. Another tested idea developed by architect Hossein Amanat is a styrof ...
tures in earlier times, who knew why walls looked as they did and had the structural soundness they needed. Much of the destruct ...
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