Entrée principale:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (31st : 2007 : Washington, D.C.)

Titre et auteur:

Middle East garden traditions : unity and diversity : questions, methods and resources in a multicultural perspective / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Description:

363 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Notes:
Papers presented at the 31st Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, held at the Smithsonian Institution Freer and Sackler galleries, Apr. 2007.
Papers presented at the 31st Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, held at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C., Apr. 27-28, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-327) and index.
Learning from Middle East garden traditions / Michel Conan -- New perspectives for garden archaeology. The rose and the balsam : the garden as a source of perfume and medicine / Yizhar Hirschfeld ; Soil improvement and agricultural pesticides in antiquity : examples from archaeological research in Israel / Yotam Tepper ; An approach to the visual analysis of the gardens of Al-Andalus / Antonio Almagro ; Ornamental plants in agricultural and botanical treatises from Al-Andalus / Expiración García Sánchez and J. Estaban Hernández Bermejo -- The political uses of gardens. The garden strategy of the Almohad sultans and their successors (1157-1900) / Mohammed El Faïz ; transl. by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman ; Princely Safavid gardens : stage for rituals of imperial display and political legitimacy / Mahvash Alemi ; The royal gardens of Farahābād and the fall of Shah Sultan Husayn revisited / Jean-Do Brignoli ; My garden is Hindustan : the Mughal Padshah's realization of a political metaphor / Ebba Koch ; Questions about the political significance of Mughal garden waterworks / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Cultural receptions of gardens. Matrakçi Nasuh and Evliya Çelebi : perspectives on Ottoman gardens (1534-1682) / Nurhan Atasoy ; Unity and diversity of Mughal garden experiences / Abdul Rehman, Shama Anbrine -- Critical discussion of cultural influences. Gardens at the Kağithane commons during the Tulip Period (1718-1730) / B. Deniz Çaliş ; Rajput gardens and landscapes / Jennifer Joffee and D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Exploring the limits of garden traditions. From the Andalusí garden to the Andalusian garden : remnants and re-creation / José Tito Rojo and Manuel Casares Porcel ; Gardens of Afghanistan / Benedict Bull.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780884023296
088402329X

Sujet:

Islamic gardens History Congresses.
Gardens Islamic countries History Congresses.
Jardins islamiques Histoire Congrès.
Gardens
Islamic gardens
Gardens, Islamic History Congresses.
Islamic countries
Middle East garden

Classification/genre:

Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Vedettes secondaires:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Conan, Michel
Dumbarton Oaks.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 253232
Cote: SB457.8 .D86 2007
Statut: Disponible