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Veiling Architecture: Decoration of Domestic Buildings in Upper Egypt 1672-1950
Ahmed Abdel-Gawad
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Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; AMK; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 750.
In the Nile Valley and desert oases south of Cairo-Upper Egypt-surviving domestic buildings from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries demonstrate a unique and varied strand of traditional decoration. Intricate patterns in wood, iron, or plaster adorn doorways, balconies, windows, and rooflines in towns and villages throughout the region. One of the most distinctive cultural features of these traditional homes is the decorated wooden balcony-screen-with jigsaw-cut patterns often based on creative repetitions, inversions, and mirrorings of the Arabic letter waw-which was designed to veil the residents from public view while allowing them to take the air and watch the ... Read more
In the Nile Valley and desert oases south of Cairo-Upper Egypt-surviving domestic buildings from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries demonstrate a unique and varied strand of traditional decoration. Intricate patterns in wood, iron, or plaster adorn doorways, balconies, windows, and rooflines in towns and villages throughout the region. One of the most distinctive cultural features of these traditional homes is the decorated wooden balcony-screen-with jigsaw-cut patterns often based on creative repetitions, inversions, and mirrorings of the Arabic letter waw-which was designed to veil the residents from public view while allowing them to take the air and watch the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774164873
SKU
V9789774164873
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About Ahmed Abdel-Gawad
Ahmed Abdel-Gawad is a professor in the faculty of veterinary medicine at Cairo University and also holds a degree in Islamic architecture from Cairo University. He is the author of Enter in Peace: The Doorways of Cairo Homes, 1872-1950 (AUC Press in 2007).
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