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Saudi Arabia encompasses a greater variety of architectural styles than any other country in the Arabian peninsula. The buildings of the coastal, mountain and plains regions are entirely distinctive and local in their character. By contrast, several towns, especially Mecca and Medina, have naturally been directly exposed to foreign architectural influences. In this painstaking work, Geoffrey King records in text and an extensive range of pictures, line drawings and ground plans a tradition of Islamic architecture unique to Arabia. He describes the characteristic features of the vernacular style for the towns and villages of each region - the Red Sea coast, the northern inland oases, the southwestern mountains, the central plains of Najd and the eastern Gulf Coast - and how buildings were used. In the process, King draws on the record of earlier visitors to Arabia's cities, towns and villages to provide a rich historical context for the country's architecture, while at the same time providing a detailed description of building materials, construction techniques and technology in the use of coral, plaster, mudbrick and stone.
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Records a unique architectural tradition encompassing the greatest variety of styles in the Arabian peninsula. With the full flow of the oil economy came a wholesale rebuilding and expansion of Saudi Arabia's towns and cities. King defines and illustrates a vernacular tradition for each region.
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- PublisherI.B. Tauris
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860643396
- ISBN 13 9781860643392
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages257
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