The Architecture of Home in Cairo: Socio-Spatial Practice of the Hawari's Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781138567320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

Opis

This book describes the historical development of the domestic spaces (indoor and outdoor), and provides an inclusive analysis of spaces of everyday activities in the hawari of old Cairo. It then broadens its analysis to other parts of the city, highlighting different customs and representations of home in the city at large.

Recenzje

’In this book, Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, gives us a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and nicely written narrative of The Architecture of Home in Cairo. It is a thorough study of domestic space over many centuries with a clear account of the transformation that dwellings in Cairo have undergone in the past few centuries. That this comes to us from a Cairene who clearly loves his city is an additional treat allowing us to see with him how houses have been turned into homes over time in a city that never ceases to surprise.’ Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Spis treści

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O autorze

Dr Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Lecturer in Architecture, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.