Treasures Of The Musee Dorsay

"Robert Hillenbrand explores the range of public architecture in the Middle East and North Africa from the medieval period to 1700, focusing on the relationship between architecture and society." "Included are chapters on religious and secular architecture and the architecture of tombs, each one providing a lucid and penetrating overview of a characteristic building type. Buildings are discussed in terms of form and function, the roles of specific building types in the Islamic order and the expression of different sociocultural groups in architectural terms."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Travel Guide and Art Guide in one. Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated.

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