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Architecture for the dead : Cairo's medieval necropolis / Galila El Kadi, Alain Bonnamy.
Publication details: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2007Description: 302 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9774160746 (cloth)
- 9789774160745
- Cité des morts. English
- NA6192 .E513 2007
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NA 6192 .E513 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5015468 |
"An Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Edition."
"First published in French in 2001 under the title Le Cité des Morts"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and indexes.
"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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