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Author:   Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138567320

ISBN 10:   1138567329
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   12 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; I: On Home and Architecture; 1: Homes; 2: The Idea of Home between Social Reality and Cultural Production; 3: Architecting Homes; 4: Making Homes in Cairo; II: Homes of Old Cairo between Two Centuries; 5: Cairo and the Cairene Harah; 6: The Harah and the Embodiment of Home; 7: Medieval Homes of Cairo in 1800AD; 8: The Changing City 1880s–1930s; 9: Contested Territories of Modernity; 10: Narratives of Spatial Transformation in Cairo; III: Modernity and the Architecture of Home in Cairo; 11: Why Architects Fail in Cairo?; 12: Architecture of Home; 13: Architecture and the Construction of Memory 1; 14: Closing the Loop: Gender, Education and Sustainable Homes in Cairo; Afterwards

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’In this book, Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, gives us a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and nicely written narrative of The Architecture of Home in Cairo. It is a thorough study of domestic space over many centuries with a clear account of the transformation that dwellings in Cairo have undergone in the past few centuries. That this comes to us from a Cairene who clearly loves his city is an additional treat allowing us to see with him how houses have been turned into homes over time in a city that never ceases to surprise.’ Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, USA

'In this book, Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, gives us a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and nicely written narrative of The Architecture of Home in Cairo. It is a thorough study of domestic space over many centuries with a clear account of the transformation that dwellings in Cairo have undergone in the past few centuries. That this comes to us from a Cairene who clearly loves his city is an additional treat allowing us to see with him how houses have been turned into homes over time in a city that never ceases to surprise.' Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Author Information

Dr Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Lecturer in Architecture, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.

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