Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East

<p><i>Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East</i> provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by:</p> <ul style=”line-height: 25px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;”> <li>presenting a practical overview of architectural know-how in the Middle East, and its potential for cultivating a sense of place</li> <li>introducing local architectural vocabularies and styles, and how they can still be reactivated in contemporary design</li> <li>exploring the cultural and contextual meaning of forms as references that may influence contemporary architecture</li> <li>discussing important discourses and trends in architecture that allow a rethinking of the current global/local dichotomy.</li> </ul> <p>Highly illustrated, the book covers architecture and design in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and Turkey, Iran and Iraq. </p>