Graphic History of Architecture

Graphic History of Architecture

1999 | 192 pages | PDF | 63 MB

What is a hammer-beam roof? Where does a voissoir fit in an arch? What churches did Nicholas Hawksmoor design? Now architecture students and others interested in the history of the built environment can consult a single reference book to find the answers to these and to hundreds of other questions, quickly and in the form most easily comprehended: clear and logical drawings. There are 2000 drawings in this book covering the history of Western architecture from Egypt through Wright, Saarinen, and Fuller.

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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Architecture for the Poor: 

An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Hassan Fathy,

366 pages | PDF | 31 Mb

Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. 

Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. 

He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

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Islamic Architecture In Cairo : An Introduction

Islamic Architecture In Cairo : An Introduction

 175 pages | PDF | 35 MB

Combining an analysis of Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest up to the reign of Muhammad 'Ali, an overview of its main architectural styles, a descriptive catalog of the major monuments, and a discussion of domestic architecture, this concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers.


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Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide

Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide

American University in Cairo Press | 2004-10-01 |276 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now - at the turn of the millennium - awaits the delight of the general visitor.

This new edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent developments with updated and revised material.

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Architecture for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Architecture for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Hassan Fathy,
University Of Chicago Press | December 15, 2000 | 366 pages | PDF | 31 Mb

Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

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العمارة العربية بمصر

العمارة العربية بمصر
في شرح المميزات البنائية الرئيسية للطراز العربي
ل ولفرد جوزيف دللي
 

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The Temple in Man : Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man

The Temple in Man : Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man

In ner Traditions | November 1, 1981 | 136 pages | PDF | 2.6 Mb

This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.

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Egyptian Towns and Cities (Shire Egyptology)

Egyptian Towns and Cities (Shire Egyptology)

Eric P. Uphill,
Shire | 2008-03-04 | PDF | 72 pages | 3,2 Mb

This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the Hellenistic period. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharaohs in establishing first towns and then cities. The later growths are shown to be of two basic types, royal foundations and those which underwent a natural expansion throughout history. From this they are classified as constituting various standard types based on function: provincial centres, planned workmen's villages, military and frontier towns, towns inhabited by funerary priests and, ultimately, royal residences and the capitals. The range of size and material is tremendous, covering small closely knit communities of a few hundred people, towns with several thousand inhabitants and vast cities, as large as any in the ancient world, with tens of thousands of citizens.

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Architecture for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt

"Architecture for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt"
Hassan Fathy,
University Of Chicago Press | December 15, 2000 | ISBN: 0226239160 | 366 pages | PDF | 31 Mb

Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

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