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Table of Contents:
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Preface by HE Yahya bin Mahfoudh al Mantheri, Minister of Higher Education and Chairman, Sultan Qaboos University Council, Oman; Preface by Professor Christopher Frayling, Rector and Vice-Provost, Royal College of Art; Introduction; Chapter 1: Traditional Architecture and Settlement Patterns; Regional Styles and Building Traditions; The Climatic Influence on Regional Architecture - Farokh Afshar, Allan Cain and John Norton; Aflaj: Architecture in the Landscape - James Parry; Chapter 2: Muscat: Traditional City and Greater Capital; Town Planning in the 1970s; Modern Muscat; Old Muscat and Its Fortifications - Enrico d'Errico; Vernacular Architecture; Chapter 3: Al Batinah Coast, Musandam and al Jabal al Akhdar; Chapter 4: The Towns of al Dakhiliyyah and al Zahirah; Chapter 5: The Architecture of al Sharqiyyah; Chapter 6: The Architecture of Southern Dhofar. Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Illustration Credits; Index.

About the Author :
Salma Samar Damluji, AA. Dipl. Ph.D. (RCA) is an architect and specialist in Islamic and vernacular architecture of Arab countries. After completing her studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, she attended the Royal College of Art where she received her doctorate. Dr Damluji lectured in the Middle East from 1977 to 1982. She has been teaching in London since 1987 - at the Royal College of Art where she was a Research Fellow between 1987 and 1989 and a Tutor from 1990 to 1993, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture where she is still a Senior Tutor in the Graduate School. From 1994 to 1996 she was the Academic Coordinator of the Royal College of Arts' Asilah Studios in Morocco. Her previous publications include Zil?j: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics ed (Garnet Publishing, 1992), The Valley of Mud Brick Architecture (Garnet Publishing, 1992) and A Yemen Reality (Garnet Publishing, 1991). She has also curated exhibitions to accompany publications of her books, 'Morocco Zill?j' RCA, 1992; 'Cities on the Edge', RIBA, 1997 and 'The Architecture of Oman', 1998.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781859640838
  • Publisher: Garnet Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Ithaca Press
  • Height: 310 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 245 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1859640834
  • Publisher Date: 29 Oct 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 2971 gr

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