ISBN: 9781909942073

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Ginko Library, 2017
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm

Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories. Generations of highly-skilled masons, carpenters and craftspeople have deftly employed the materials-to-hand and indigenous technologies to create urban architectural assemblages, gardens and rural landscapes that dialogue harmoniously with the natural contours and geological conditions of southern Arabia.