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

Contributor(s): Cantacuzino, SherbanPublication details: New York, NY : Aperture : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin, 1985Description: 191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN: 0893811963Subject(s): Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization) -- Awards | Architecture -- Awards -- Islamic countries | Islamic architecture -- Awards | Middle East Islamic architectural designLOC classification: NA2335Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Continuity and change : architecture and development in the Islamic world / Sherban Cantacuzino -- The mosque in the medieval Islamic world / Robert Hillenbrand -- The mosque today / Ihsan Fethi -- A survey of modern Turkish architecture / Doǧan Kuban
Summary: "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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Continuity and change : architecture and development in the Islamic world / Sherban Cantacuzino -- The mosque in the medieval Islamic world / Robert Hillenbrand -- The mosque today / Ihsan Fethi -- A survey of modern Turkish architecture / Doǧan Kuban

"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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