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Building Sharjah / with contributions by Ammar Al Attar [and 16 others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah.
- Buildings.
- Architecture.
- United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah.
- Architecture--United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah.
- Physical Description:
- 437 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basel : Birkhauser, 2021.
- Summary:
- Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates' third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world's final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past's mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah's potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
- ISBN:
- 9783035622768
- 3035622760
- OCLC:
- 1222895390
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