Middle East

A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.

Riyadh presents critical theoretical insights, personal observations, and serendipitous encounters to deftly demonstrate how the city thrives through the actions of its people. It is a vision of an urbanity where both the spectacular and the everyday co-exist, not just dedicated to the few, but one that serves the many.

Providing a critical overview of the state of contemporary urban design in the Arab World, this book conceptualizes the field under four major perspectives: urban design as discourse, as discipline, as research, and as practice. It poses the questions: how can such a diversity of practice be positioned with regard to current international trends in

An architectural journey through the three most significant decades 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s of urban development in Doha, Qatar, since the oil discovery.

This fully illustrated publication is a magnificent pictorial survey of the great architectural monuments of Iran.