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Cairo : histories of a city

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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In this publication, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.

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La fantastique histoire des bâtisseurs de pyramides

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De nombreuses interrogations demeurent aujourd'hui encore sur les méthodes de construction des pyramides, et surtout sur les raisons qui ont poussé les anciens Egyptiens à bâtir ces monuments majestueux. Des recherches récentes ont permis d'apporter des informations nouvelles permettant de répondre à ces questions. Signé par le secrétaire général du Conseil suprême des antiquités d'Egypte, par ailleurs égyptologue de renommée mondiale, ce livre nous informe des toutes dernières données archéologiques découvertes sur le plateau de Gizeh. Elles permettent au Dr Zahi Hawass de défendre la théorie selon laquelle ces pyramides - y compris la Grande Pyramide de Khéops, la seule des Sept Merveilles du monde encore debout - furent construites non par des esclaves, mais par des ingénieurs, des contremaîtres, des artisans et des ouvriers spécialisés, qui ont mené ces chantiers gigantesques et surhumains avec art et fierté.

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The annotated arc, a crash course in the history of architecture

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This book takes architectural history out of the realm of dreary textbooks into a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays and instructive sidebars. These graphic devices heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief run-through of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in the history of architecture. Incorporating more than 250 illustrations, The Annotated Arch draws on the very elements of architecture to craft a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary textbook could match. From Stonehenge to the Eiffel Tower, from Flippo Brunelleschi to Frank Lloyd Wright, the language of architecture is clarified in five sections.

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L'Architecture au futur depuis 1889

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Une histoire de l’architecture du XXe siècle en un volume. Écrite par un éminent spécialiste de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, également auteur, critique, commissaire d’expositions et professeur reconnu. L’ouvrage présente constructions, projets, plans, croquis et publications de maîtres célèbres et de personnalités redécouvertes.

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Architecture en 30 secondes

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Ce livre vous aidera à connaître les 50 plus grands principes et styles architecturaux grâce à son approche pratique : chaque innovation est développée en une double page, 300 mots et une image, pour une compréhension claire et rapide.

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A history of Western architecture, 7th edition

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In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final chapter on the twenty-first century has been completely rewritten by Hopkins, who brings the story right up to date with the inclusion of such topics as re-use, digital cities and virtual architecture.

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l'Architecture moderne de A à Z

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Des formes géométriques colorées de Gio Ponti au futurisme libre et fluide de Zaha Hadid, ce panorama très complet présente près de 300 portraits et descriptions des architectes, des styles, des mouvements et des tendances qui sont à l’origine des constructions réalisées entre le XIXe et le XXIe siècle.

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A history of western architecture, 6th edition

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In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the continuity between, say, the work of Ictinus in fifth-century BC Athens and that of McKim, Mead and White in twentieth century New York.

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Architecture 101: From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an essential guide to building styles and materials

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A crash course in designing and constructing buildings.