The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings.

Case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham amongst others, demonstrate how mosques and Islamic centers have evolved to integrate into the urban scenario. The book also compares tenets from Western and Eastern religious and secular...

Critical Environmentalism (CE) explores corresponding epistemological frameworks across wide- ranging socio-environmental dynamics and their relations with architectural endeavors, primarily within urban development as comprising the greatest number of intersections between human constructions and the greater environmental domain. CE draws together environmental issues emerging across theoretical stances and fosters critical approaches to knowledge integration, amalgamating multiple stakeholder perspectives within an operational goal of co-creative communal development and...