Architectural heritage of Yemen : buildings that fill my eye /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Marchand, Trevor Hugh James. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | London : Gingko Library, 2017. |
| Series: | Gingko Library art series.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Foreward / Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
- 'Buildings that fill my eye': an introduction to the Architectural heritage of Yemen / Trevor H.J. Marchand
- Part 1. Architectural Traditions of Yemen. Early and medieval Sanaa: the evidence on the ground / Ronald Lewcock
- Rasulid architecture / Noha Sadek
- The Bani Tahir and the 'Amiriyya Madrasa: architecture and politics / Venetia Porter
- Some Sufi mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster
- Mocha: maritime architecture on Yemen's Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um
- Construction, development and destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelag Weir
- The domestic architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: building attitudes and formal identities / Fernando Varanda
- The art of building tower houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome
- The forts of Yemen : the example of the Citadel of Ta'izz / Noha Sadek
- The minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H.J. Marchand
- Part 2. Preserving Yemen's Architectural Heritage. The campaign to preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock
- Preserving Shibam: the city of towering mud houses / Tom Leiermann
- Preserving and transmitting traditional building techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore
- Majil and Birka: cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer
- Part 3. Making Space & Place in Yemen. Paradise built: Al-Shahari's description of Sanaa in the twelfth/eighteenth century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman
- Bodies on the move: gender dynamics on a Sanaani minibus / Gabriele vom Bruck
- The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley
- Views of Aden / St John Simpson
- Afterword. Preservation of cultural heritage is the preservation of cultural identity and belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh and Fahd Al-Quraishi.