http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/index.php?&lang=en#/ho_10_11 The Qantara project, which is part of the Euromed Heritage programme, aims to contribute to mutual understanding and dialogue among Mediterranean cultures by highlighting their cultural heritage. It promotes […]
The Kaedi Hospital extension in Mauritania is one of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture-winners, which sets a good example of ‘in-between architecture’ – both Islamic and modern and neither […]
Is there any difference between art and architecture? It is impossible to conceive of the history of art in exclusion from that of architecture. Hassan Fathy was one of those […]
Everyone agrees that the Arabic fresh and up to date architectural cross cultural ideas comes from Beirut, Where the architectural education is the finest on the Arab world, strongly affected […]
Antioch on the Orontes, also called Syrian Antioch, was situated on the eastern side of the Orontes River, in the far southeastern corner of Asia Minor. Three hundred miles (480 […]
Samir Kassir Square . ‘With the current temptation to give in to the idea of a “clash of civilizations”, a complete ideological re-think becomes ever more urgent’. a time to […]
The Early Christian/Late Antique period is usually defined as beginning in roughly 250 — the later empire beginning with Diocletian, Roman emperor from 284 to 305), but the end of […]
full text at : http://www.archive.org/stream/hellenisticarchi00murrrich/hellenisticarchi00murrrich_djvu.txt BY S. BUTLER MURRAY, JR Syrian* fribriuments have’ been divided into two great classes; those built before Romandominion, and those succeeding it. But it […]
This is an article from TT30 member Ghanem Nuseibeh. TT30 is a thinktank of 30 members of Youth Organization of Club of Rome. They established a project called “Sustainable Dubai”. […]
Art & Architecture in the Arab world 