Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design (Muqarnas, Supplements) - Hardcover

9789004107236: Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design (Muqarnas, Supplements)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004107231 ISBN 13: 9789004107236

Publisher: Brill, 1997

This volume collects together a series of conference papers on the Islamic garden, with the aim of furthering the attention currently given by scholars to Islamic landscape architecture.

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About the Author:

Attilio Petruccioli is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Aga Khan Professor of Design for Islamic Societies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are the methodology of design (landscape and contextual design, typological research and the work of modern architects), traditional settlements and housing, Islamic architecture, town and territory and Mediterranean landscape architecture. He is author and editor of more than twenty books on the topics of architectural design and the history of Islamic architecture.

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