Architecture in continuity : building in the Islamic world today : the Aga Khan Award for Architecture / edited by Sherban Cantacuzino.

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Architecture in continuity : building in the Islamic world today : the Aga Khan Award for Architecture / edited by Sherban Cantacuzino.

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191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 191).
Continuity and change : architecture and development in the Islamic world -- an introduction / by Sherban Cantacuzino -- The mosque in the medieval Islamic world : an essay / by Robert Hillenbrand -- The mosque today : an essay / Ihsan Fethi -- A survey of modern Turkish architecture : an essay / by Doğan Kuban -- Recipients of the Second Aga Khan Award for Architecture 1983 [Descriptions of 11 award-winning architectural projects in 9 countries.]

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"Architecture in Continuity celebrates recent projects throughout the Islamic world that most successfully preserve indigenous forms while providing for the future. It honors the insight, imagination, and skill that brought these projects into physical reality. The Aga Khan Awards Foundation's attention to the extraordinary effort required to develop an architecture both practical and spiritual is dramatically reflected in this volume ... The eleven projects-- found in nine countries from Mali to Pakistan, from Yugoslavia to Malaysia-- range from hotels to mosques, from housing to an impressive air terminal for pilgrims to Mecca ... The introduction and three essays, by distinguished architects and architectural historians, explore the projects in terms of the pressures confronting emerging Muslim countries, the influence of the Western postindustrial world and traditional Muslim forms and values." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol054/85047828.html.

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ISBN:

0893811963
9780893811969
0893811874 (pbk.)
9780893811877 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization) Awards.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organisation) Prix et récompenses.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization)
Architecture Awards Islamic countries.
Islamic architecture Awards.
Architecture Prix et récompenses Pays musulmans.
Architecture islamique Prix et récompenses.
Architecture Awards
Awards
Aga Khan award for architecture
Islamische Architektur
Architecture Islamic countries 20th century.
Islamic architecture 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Islamic countries.
Islamic countries
Middle East Islamic architectural design

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Cantacuzino, Sherban.

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Location: Library main 184344
Call No.: ID NA2335.A7; ID:86-B2746
Status: Available

Location: Library main georg lippsmeier 298674
Call No.: BIB 96460
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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