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A Lebanese Perspective
An outstanding collection of contemporary residential, commercial and public architecture by Lebanese architect Simone Kosremelli. Features stunning photography, detailed plans and sections, and insightful descriptive text by Sylvia Shorto, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut. For the past 30 years, Simone Kosremelli has produced an architecture known for its character and its outstanding quality. Volumetrically complex internally, and visually coherent externally, her work is rooted in the Lebanese vernacular but it is not constrained by the past. Rather, her designs incorporate vernacular elements in modern arrangements, encouraging the natural continuation of a local ...
Asian Women Artists
This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu's Chinese sericulture in 2700 BCE and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, this book focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.
Cool Hotels
Cool Hotels Africa/Middle East showcases a comprehensive selection of cutting-edge hotels in Africa and the Middle East, all of them showcased because they embody the best in contemporary hotel design. This useful flexicover guide is extensively illustrated with approximately 400 color photographs, highlighting the interiors and exteriors of these striking accommodations. This overview includes designs from Enrico Daffonchio, Peter Matkovitch and Ed Tuttle in locations as diverse as South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius and Morocco. An extensive compilation of the most contemporary hotels in Africa and the Middle East Illustrations and text provide useful information to both design professionals and travelers 400 colour photos
The Heritage of War
The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them. From colonizing violence in South America to the United States’ Civil War, the Second World War on three continents, genocide in Rwanda and continuing divisions in Europe and the Middle East, these studies bring us closer to the very processes of he...
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
A condensed version of the information contained in the ground breaking Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps, locating each building, plus twenty seven city orientations, the book contains 1,052 buildings, each of which is illustrated with a single image, and is accompanied by a brief description as well as the address and telephone number
Beirut, 1975-1990
Beirut, the Lebanese capital, was for more than fifteen years a battlefield of conflicting interests that shifted between phases of destruction and phases of construction. Much of the research into the city's 1975-1990 war period has often focused on the spaces of divisions, highlighting the factions that helped erect and maintain them and overlooking other types of spaces that emerged in parallel such as the informal enclaves and private clubs. Meanwhile these narratives lose sight of the continuous struggle of the Lebanese State to sustain its shrinking spatial base and consequently its dwindling political power. This dissertation explores the process of urban change during conflict, and more specifically how the shifting alliances between warring factions relate to spatial transformation. Based on the contemporaneous destruction and construction of particular districts across the city, I hypothesize that the interests of emerging groups--displaced migrant Shiites, businessmen and politicians--drove the way certain areas developed and prospered while others declined and dwindled.
Facades
This volume presents a new selection of practical, innovating and inspiringacades by promising or prestigious architects. They use traditional orlternative soultions adapted to the surrounding materials.;As the face ofrchitecture that connects the interior with the exterior, facades areerhaps the most innovative area of architectural design. This book featuresriginal solutions in the design of light and heavy facades.
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