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Moorish Architecture in Andalusia
Marianne Barrucand
Hardcover - $24.95
Spain owes its special historical position in Europe very largely to his intensive encounter with the Orient. In the summer of 710, a small force under the command of a Berber named Taî f ibn Mâ lik landed to the west of Gibraltar. The ...
Asmara : Africa's Secret Modernist City
Edward Denison
Paperback - $62.95
Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it int ...
Architecture of Spain
Alejandro Lapunzina
Hardcover - $168.95
This title provides an entertaining look at the many regional styles of architecture in Spain, including such notable structures as Bilbao's Guggenheim and La Alhambra in Granada.
Marrakech : Living on the Edge of the Desert
Massimo Listri
Hardcover - $99.95
This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader behind the high walls of the history-rich architecture of Marrakech's exotic houses showing richly decorated interiors, colors, fabric s and lighting from a city which draws on both African and Middl ...
Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity : Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Peter Mark
Paperback - $54.95
In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance ...