Empire building : orientalism and victorian architecture
Material type: TextPublication details: London Routledge 1996Description: xvi,288pISBN:- 9780415139410
- 720.941 CRI
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Architecture | 720.941 CRI | Available | 021474 |
CONTENTS
List of plates ix
Acknowledgements xiii
List of abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
PART I ORIENTALISM AND ARCHITECTURE
1 Useful knowledge : interpreting Islamic architecture, 1700-1840 15
2 South-savage: interpreting Islamic architecture, 1840-70 37
3 Oriental Byzantium: interpreting Byzantine architecture, 1840-70 72
PART II ARCHITECTURE AND THE ORIENT
Preface 95
4 Architecture in captivity: James Wild and St Mark's, Alexandria 97
5 The spectacle of alliance : British-architecture in Istanbul 124
6 Dignified progress: later British architecture in Egypt 167
7 New Jerusalems: evangelical architecture in Jerusalem 198
Conclusion 227
Notes 234
Selected bibliography 263
Index 278
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