Architectural heritage of Yemen
Subtitle: buildings that fill my eye
By: edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand
Series: Gingko library art series; Gingko Library art series
Publisher: Gingko Library
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781909942073
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Architecture; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreward / Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber; title: 'Buildings that fill my eye': an introduction to the Architectural heritage of Yemen / Trevor H.J. Marchand; title: Part 1. Architectural Traditions of Yemen.  Early and medieval Sanaa: the evidence on the ground / Ronald Lewcock; title: Rasulid architecture / Noha Sadek; title: The Bani Tahir and the 'Amiriyya Madrasa: architecture and politics / Venetia Porter; title: Some Sufi mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster; title: Mocha: maritime architecture on Yemen's Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um; title: Construction, development and destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelag Weir; title: The domestic architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: building attitudes and formal identities / Fernando Varanda; title: The art of building tower houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome; title: The forts of Yemen : the example of the Citadel of Ta'izz / Noha Sadek; title: The minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H. J. Marchand; title: Part 2. Preserving Yemen's Architectural Heritage. The campaign to preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock; title: Preserving Shibam: the city of towering mud houses / Tom Leiermann; title: Preserving and transmitting traditional building techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore; title: Majil and Birka: cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer; title: Part 3. Making Space & Place in Yemen.  Paradise built: Al-Shahari's description of Sanaa in the twelfth/eighteenth century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith; title: A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman; title: Bodies on the move: gender dynamics on a Sanaani minibus / Gabriele vom Bruck; title: The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley; title: Views of Aden / St John Simpson; title: Afterword.  Preservation of cultural heritage is the preservation of cultural identity and belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh and Fahd Al-Quraishi.