Salma Samar Damluji Knihy

Focusing on the architecture of Yemen, this book presents an in-depth examination of the region's distinctive structures. The revised edition features drawings and documentation from construction and restoration projects conducted between 2008 and 2014 in Hadhramaut and Dawan. Salma Samar Damluji delves into areas considered the last bastions of traditional Arab architecture, revealing unique building techniques and methods through insights from both builders and homeowners, which are largely unknown outside Yemen.

This is a stunning visual guide to the architecture and life of southern Yemen. Master builders have kept alive techniques and styles practiced for centuries, while adapting them to modern requirements. Their practical value and aesthetic quality is beautifully illustrated in this book.

Photographer John Hedgecoe and the editor Salma Samar Damluji were given unprecedented access to Morocco’s finest buildings, including Royal Palaces, and to private and state museum collections. Through the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in Morocco, a unique book on one of the world’s great forms of art has been created. It was through the art of zillïj, intricate cut-tile patterns, that Moroccan craftsmen achieved their most sophisticated expression of precision, spatial geometry and aesthetics. This book is a careful study of the achievements of those craftsmen in the art of zillij. It is also, as importantly, an investigation into the relationship of zillij designs to ceramics, which present the designs on a new scale and with a new function. The Art of Moroccan Ceramics is essential to the library of all those interested, either professionally or otherwise, in architecture, design, ceramics, Islamic and decorative arts.