Africa

Renowned for its mud-brick architecture, monumental mosque, and merchant-traders' houses, Djenne remains one of Africa's most distinctive cities. This title describes the raising of a mud-brick house and explores the technical, social, and magical processes involved in making buildings and renewing the urban environment of Djenne.

This text discusses the original plan for the Azhar Park approved in 1990 and the park's subsequent creation, as well as the restoration of a large part of the old Ayyubid city walls. Also included is a socio-economic study of the district of al-Dard-al-Ahmar.

Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich source of monasteries and monastic art. This volume takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient centres, documenting in detail the richness of the Coptic heritage.

The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and its largest settlement. Its beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality, but also of a second, invisible city as it ex

This body of work is a contemplation of human beings passage on earth and their intimate interrelation with the environment.