Architecture for the dead : Cairo's medieval necropolis /
"In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they descri...
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Call Number: NA6192 .E4413 2007
| Summary: | "In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest - but elaborately decorated - wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of : Cité des morts "An Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Edition." "First published in French in 2001 under the title Le Cité des Morts" -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 302 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9774160746 |