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Book Jerusalem Architecture

Download or read book Jerusalem Architecture written by David Kroyanker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusalem has captivated the world for over 2000 years. This book surveys the revered city's architecture, from the earliest remnants of old Judea, Rome, and Byzantium, through the glories of Islam and the Crusader kingdom, to the pragmatically conceived neighbourhoods built outside Suleiman the Magnificent's 16th-century ramparts, in the years since World War I.

Book The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture

Download or read book The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture written by Jeroen Goudeau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, which question the visualization of Jerusalem.

Book Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Download or read book Till We Have Built Jerusalem written by Philip Bess and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh arguments for traditional architecture and urbanism; Bess dissects the questionable intellectual assumptions of contemporary architecture. How modern societies find physical expression in contemporary suburban sprawl by considering the role of both the natural law tradition and communal religion in providing intellectual and spiritual depth to contemporary attempts to build new-and revive existing-traditional towns and cities.

Book The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem

Download or read book The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well illustrated introduction to the splendid public monuments of Ottoman Jerusalem, including mosques, madrasas, Sufi convents, minarets, fountains and the famous structures of the Haram.

Book Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Download or read book Till We Have Built Jerusalem written by Adina Hoffman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled cities A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany who must reckon with a complex new Middle Eastern reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922 to 1937. Steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building, this “most private of public servants” finds himself working under the often stifling and violent conditions of British rule. And in the riveting final section, Hoffman herself sets out through the battered streets of today’s Jerusalem searching for traces of a possibly Greek, possibly Arab architect named Spyro Houris. Once a fixture on the local scene, Houris is now utterly forgotten, though his grand Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, Till We Have Built Jerusalem uncovers the ramifying layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.

Book Mamluk Jerusalem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hamilton Burgoyne
  • Publisher : Tajir Trust
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Mamluk Jerusalem written by Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and published by Tajir Trust. This book was released on 1987 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the Mameluke architecture in Jerusalem carried out by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem beginning in 1968.

Book Jerusalem Architecture

Download or read book Jerusalem Architecture written by David Kroyanker and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Israel's leading city planners provides a pictorial and textual survey of the Holy City's architecture. it explores the old City's history and carries the reader through the ages via its architectural Opulance. the city is filled with one-of-a-kind properties which exclude it from definition in terms of traditional urban expression.

Book Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Download or read book Till We Have Built Jerusalem written by Adina Hoffman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cultural history of Jerusalem under the British Mandate, focusing on the tensions between its architecture and its political divisions"--

Book City of Collision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philipp Misselwitz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2006-06-02
  • ISBN : 3764378689
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book City of Collision written by Philipp Misselwitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence. Der Krieg hat Einzug in die Städte gehalten. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 ist deutlich geworden, dass nicht mehr nur Jerusalem und der Nahen Osten betroffen sind, sondern auch westliche Metropolen. Das Buch stellt eine umfassende urbanistische Untersuchung der aktuellen Situation in Jerusalem aus trilateraler Perspektive vor: israelische, palästinensische und internationale Fachleute kommen zu Wort. Diskutiert werden Produktion und Nutzung von städtischem Raum unter den Bedingungen des Konflikts, wie z.B. der sog. Sicherheitszaun, urbane Enklaven, Exklaven, der Umgang mit Monumenten und Niemandsland oder die Instrumentalisierung von Infrastrukturen, die zu einem krassen Nebeneinander von hoch entwickelten oder verarmten städtischen Räumen führen. Der Konflikt bringt jedoch nicht nur Destruktion und Gewalt mit sich, sondern zeigt vielmehr auch ambivalente Wirkungen und mit ihnen neue kulturelle und urbane Realitäten. Jerusalem ist zu einem Prototyp im Zeitalter neuer städtischer Gewalt geworden.

Book Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem  1917 1948

Download or read book Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem 1917 1948 written by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and published by EUP. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architectural history of four prominent buildings in Jerusalem. Includes new research on public and civic architecture of Mandate Palestine. Focuses on four case studies: the Muslim Palestinian Palace Hotel, the Jewish-Zionist Zionist Executive Buildings, the British Palestine Archaeological Museum and the American Jerusalem YMCA Building. Reveals the major role that architecture and architectural culture had in constructing communal and national identities in Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine. Increases our understanding of the interaction between cultural forces in the Middle East and the emergence of 20th-century architectural culture in Israel/Palestine. Makes a significant contribution to research into the built environments of mixed cities, contested spaces and cities under foreign rule. Deepens our understanding of present spatial dilemmas and their context within the Israeli-Palestinian conflic. Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.

Book Ayyubid Jerusalem  1187 1250

Download or read book Ayyubid Jerusalem 1187 1250 written by Mahmoud Hawari and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief historical overview of the Ayyubid state, the major factors on which it was based, makes the first chapter. The sources of information utilised in this research are illustrated in the second chapter. Chapter three deals with Jerusalem in the political context of the Ayyubid state: the role Jerusalem played in the propagation of jihad against the Franks; the administrative and demographic changes introduced by the Ayyubids. Chapter four examines the architectural changes that were introduced by the Ayyubids, emphasising how political and socio- economic factors determined construction projects in the city. Chapter five constitutes the core of the book: a catalogue of the extant Ayyubid buildings in Jerusalem. These are grouped chronologically, with detailed architectural, archaeological and historical analysis, as well as interpretations of their structural evolution.

Book The Architecture of Paradise

Download or read book The Architecture of Paradise written by William A. McClung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Cities of the Islamic World

Download or read book Historic Cities of the Islamic World written by Clifford Edmund Bosworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.

Book Technology  Place  and Architecture

Download or read book Technology Place and Architecture written by Kenneth Frampton and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1992, to celebrate the inauguration of the Supreme Court building, the [Yad Hanadiv] Foundation sponsored a symposium on the architecture of the public building. Prominent architects ... came to Jerusalem that year and for subsequent biennial meetings ... This book, ... documents these discussions."--p.7.

Book Jerusalem Architecture

Download or read book Jerusalem Architecture written by Daṿid Ḳroyanḳer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World  2 Vol  Set

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 Vol Set written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.