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Author Edwards, Brian

Title Courtyard Housing : Past, Present and Future
Published London : Spon Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (373 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustration credits; Contributors; Foreword--Courtyard: a typology that symbolises a culture; Preface; 1 The courtyard house: typological variations over space and time; 2 The shared characteristics of Iranian and Arab courtyard houses; 3 The courtyard houses of Syria; 4 The courtyard houses of southern Algeria; 5 The courtyard houses of north African medians, past, present and future; 6 The power of the veil: gender inequality in the domestic setting of traditional courtyard
7 The role of privacy in the design of the Saudi Arabian courtyard house8 The traditional courtyard house of Kuwait and the influence of Islam; 9 The cosmological genesis of the courtyard house; 10 The deconstructed courtyard dwellings of central Oman; 11 The European perimeter block: the Scottish experience of courtyard housing; 12 Courtyards: a bioclimatic form?; 13 The courtyard garden in the traditional Arab house; 14 Climatic aspects and their effect on the dim
Summary This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past
Notes Print version record
Subject Courtyard houses.
courtyard houses.
Courtyard houses
Form Electronic book
Author Sibley, Magda
Land, Peter
Hakmi, Mohammad
ISBN 9780203646724
020364672X