Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design: 7 (Muqarnas, Supplements) - Softcover

Atillio Petruccioli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004259597 ISBN 13: 9789004259591

Publisher: BRILL, 2014

Synopsis

A conference on the Islamic garden was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the book, to further and act as a basis for the attention given by scholars these days 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9004259597
• ISBN 13: 9789004259591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212