Courtyard housing : past present and future The courtyard house : typological variations over space and time Attilio Petruccioli The shared characteristics of Iranian and Arab courtyard houses Gholamhossein Memarian and Frank Brown The courtyard houses of Syria E. Mahmoud Zien Al Abidin The courtyard houses of Southern Algeria Arrouf Abdelmalek The courtyard houses of North African medinas past present and future Magda Sibley The power of the veil : gender inequality in the domestic setting of traditional courtyard houses Reem Zako The role of privacy in the design of the Saudi Arabian courtyard house Omar S. BaHammam The traditional courtyard house of Kuwait and the influence of Islam M. Anwarul Islam and Nawal H. Al Sanafi The cosmological genesis of the courtyard house Faozi Ujam The deconstructed courtyard : dwellings of central Oman Soumyen Bandyopadhyay The European perimeter block : the Scottish experience of courtyard housing Brian Edwards Courtyards : a bioclimatic form Dana Raydan Carlo Ratti and Koen Steemers The courtyard garden in the traditional Arab house Maher Laffah Climatic aspects and their effect on the dimensions of courtyards in Arab buildings Hani Wadah The thermal performance of the internal courtyard in the hot dry environment in Saudi Arabia Khalid A. Megren Al Saud and Nasser A.M. Al Hemiddi Type as a tool : courtyard housing and the notion of continuity Kevin Mitchell The geometry of single and multi family courtyard housing Mohamad Hakmi Courtyard housing in Saudi Arabia : in search of a contemporary typology Tarek Abdelsalam New design thinking for contemporary courtyard housing Yassine Bada Courtyard housing : an afterthought Peter Land