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Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers: Art, Architecture, and Worship
The design principles necessary to create funtional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the islamic faith. Design Criteria for Mosqueses and Islamic centers provides an easy to-use and practical st of gidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings. Case studies of urban mosquese in New York, Wangsington, Boston and London and Birmingham amongst other, demostrate how mosques and islamic centers have evolved to integrate into the urban scenario. The book also compares tenents from western an eastern religiouse and seculer philishopies and discusses their relation to architectural creation, place – making, meaning , and identity. The book shows how mosques fulfill multiple faith – based and social roles through their design; it provides a wid e- ranging, basic understanding of islamic liturgical convetations and functions to enable architects, designers and comunitty advocates to work with confidence.
Design Criteria for mosaques and islamic centeres is the first dedicated guide for mosaques and islamic centers available
• Features case studies from the USA,UK, and Europe
• Explains fundamental principles to make it easy to create viable design solutions for these exacting buidings that fulfill a range of social and religious roles
Inventory Code | Barcode | Call Number | Location | Status |
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1701000266 | B70659S | 726.2 Kah d 2009 | Central Library (CIRCULATION) | Available |
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