Title & Author:

Architecture and community : building in the Islamic world today : the Aga Khan Award for Architecture / [edited by Renata Holod, with Darl Rastorfer].

Publication:

Millerton, NY : Aperture, [1983]
©1983

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (colour, and black and white) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 255).
Islamic philosophy and the fine arts / Mushin S. Mahdi -- Symbols and signs in Islamic architecture / Oleg Grabar -- Conservation of the historic environment for cultural survival / Doğan Kuban -- Islam, urbanism, and human existence today / Mohammed Arkoun -- Islamic architecture and the poor people of Islam / Mahbub Ul-Haq -- Urban housing in the third world : the role of the architect / Charles Correa -- Changing roles and procedures in the design of public buildings / Mona Serageldin and François Vigier -- On recreational and tourist complexes / Yasmeen and Suhail Lari -- On educational facilities / Ismail Serageldin -- On mosque architecture / Nader Ardalan.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Examines fifteen architectural projects which have won awards for developing a modern style that derives from traditional Moslem design.

ISBN:

0893811238
9780893811235
0893811246 (pbk.)
9780893811242 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization)
Islamic architecture History 20th century.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture Pays musulmans 20e siècle.
Architecture islamique.
Architecture islamique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architektur
Islamische Architektur
Architecture Islamic countries 20th century.
Islamic architecture 20th century.
Architecture, Modern Islamic countries. 20th century.
Architecture Awards Islamic countries.
Arabien
Nordafrika
Türkei
Architecture, Islamic
Islam Architecture

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Holod, Renata, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 101062
Call No.: NA2350.S9 A33 (ID:85-B1567)
Status: Available