Architecture Beyond Architecture: Creativity and Social Transformations in Islamic Cultures the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture

178 Pages·1996·51.52 MB·English

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Architecture

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Edited by Cynthia C Davidson
with Ismail Serageldin
(EB The Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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Spiny and Arckteeure,Matsed doen

(Gritcal Bsowne fo Crate Transformations, Reset of the (095 Aand Nase ary
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Resection af Bukhara OM Cy, Bakara, Usbekicar

Conseracin of Old Sa, Yemen

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