Title & Author:

Living under the crescent moon : [domestic culture in the Arab world / editor, Mateo Kries, Alexander von Vegesack ; translations: Jeremy Gaines, Julia Taylor Thorson, William Stoddart].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2003.

Description:

348 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalog.
Exhibition in Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, until January 18, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-346).
Living in a 'house of hair' : the differing lifestyles of nomads in the Arab world / Sébastien Boulay -- Rural houses in the Arab world / Karin Pütt, Katrin Adolph -- A country luxury : a trip into everyday life in the Arab world / Annegret Nippa -- Housing and living traditions in the Arab-Islamic world : underlying philosophy, social patterns and spatial structures / Stefano Bianca -- Essential to urban living : an infrastructure for utilities, sanitation and quality of life / Eugen Wirth -- From Hassan Fathy to downtown Dubai : Arab domestic culture and modernism / Mateo Kries.

Summary:

Overview of living styles in the Arabic world - from the nomads' tents of the Tuareg and the Bedouin via the Moroccan casbahs, magnificent court-yarded houses in cities like Marrakech, Damascus or Cairo through to 20th-century buildings by architects suchas Hassan Fathy or Elie Mouyal.

ISBN:

3931936414 (English edition ; pbk.)
9783931936419 (English edition ; pbk.)

Subject:

Dwellings Arab countries Exhibitions.
Material culture Arab countries Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic Arab countries Exhibitions.
Vernacular architecture Arab countries Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic Arab countries.
Architecture domestique États arabes.
Habitations États arabes Expositions.
Culture matérielle États arabes Expositions.
Architecture vernaculaire États arabes Expositions.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
Manners and customs.
Material culture.
Vernacular architecture.
Woningen.
Wooncultuur.
Interieurkunst.
Huisvesting.
Bouwkunst.
Gebouwen.
Arab countries Social life and customs Exhibitions.
Arab countries Social life and customs.
États arabes Mœurs et coutumes.
États arabes Mœurs et coutumes Expositions.
Arab countries.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Kries, Mateo, 1974-
Vegesack, Alexander von.
Vitra Design Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233587
Call No.: NA7419.A68 L5 2003
Status: Available