#books #architecture | Architectural intertextuality : architecture as acceptance of "the other"

Architectural intertextuality : architecture as acceptance of "the other" / Khaled al-Sultany.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, [Copenhagen] : 2012.
256 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: p. 168-172.
ISBN 9788770980036
Arquitectos -- Dinamarca.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Oriente Medio.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(5-011) ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1752780~S1*spi

The book aims to examine and describe the activities of Danish architects, who have worked in the Middle East countries. The works of Danish architects in Arabic countries are considered as important design works because of their public functions and big scale. They are also highly regarded by reason of aesthetical and cultural values. The book also points out the richness of architectural approaches of Danish architects when they have used elements and features related to Islamic architecture in their own designs in Denmark. The book contains projects by Utzon, Henning Larsen, Arne Jacobsen, Dissing and Weitling, Knuds Holscher and Hans Munk Hansen.

#books #architecture | The architecture of the Christian Holy Land : reception from late antiquity through the Renaissance

The architecture of the Christian Holy Land : reception from late antiquity through the Renaissance / Kathryn Blair Moore.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] : 2017.
XVII, 420 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: pp. 363-411.
ISBN 9781107139084
Antigüedades cristianas.
Arquitectura religiosa -- Oriente Medio.
Civilización cristiana.
Iglesias -- Oriente Medio.
Simbolismo cristiano.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-726.5 ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1875173~S1*spi

In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.

#libros #arquitectura | Atlas : arquitecturas del siglo XXI : África y Oriente Medio

Atlas : arquitecturas del siglo XXI : África y Oriente Medio / Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.)

Fundación BBVA, Bilbao : 2011.

[320] p. : il.

ISBN 9788492937189

Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- África.

Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Oriente Medio.

Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Atlas.

Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038 ATL

http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1724020~S1*spi

Este atlas dedicado a la arquitectura última de África y Oriente Medio es el tercer volumen de una serie de cuatro, que desarrolla y pone al día la obra publicada en 2007 por la Fundación BBVA, “Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000”. Con las coordenadas intelectuales de los libros anteriores, que procuraban reflejar a la vez el ‘estado del mundo’ y el ‘estado de la arquitectura’, el que ahora se publica reúne obras y proyectos recientes junto a diez textos de destacados especialistas sobre otros tantos países o regiones de la zona, desde el África Austral hasta Turquía, pasando por el corazón del continente, el Magreb, Egipto, la península Arábiga y los territorios que un día fueron Persia, Mesopotamia y el Levante. Iniciada con un volumen sobre Asia y el Pacífico, la serie continuó con el dedicado a América, y completará el itinerario con un cuarto volumen, que explorará las arquitecturas de Europa hasta culminar en el “finis terrae” de la península Ibérica.