Description
Generations of highly skilled masons, carpenters and craftspeople have deftly employed local materials and indigenous technologies to create urban architectural assemblages, gardens, and rural landscapes that dialogue harmoniously with the natural contours and geological conditions of Yemen. Unfortunately, a sharp escalation in military action and violence in the country since the 1990s has had a devastating impact on the region’s rich cultural heritage. In bringing together the astute observations and reflections of an international and interdisciplinary group of acclaimed scholars, this book aims to raise awareness of Yemen’s long history of cultural creativity and the urgent need for international collaboration to protect it and its people from the destructive forces that have beset the region.
Chapter
Part 1: Architectural Traditions of Yemen
Early and Medieval Sanaa: The Evidence on the Ground / Ronald Lewcock
Rasulid Architecture / Noha Sadek
The Bani Tahir and the ʿAmiriyya Madrasa: Architecture and Politics / Venetia Porter
Some Sufi Mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster
Mocha: Maritime Architecture on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um
Construction, Development and Destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelagh Weir
The Domestic Architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: Building Attitudes and Formal Identities / Fernando Varanda
The Art of Building Tower Houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome
The Forts of Yemen: The Example of the Citadel of Taʿizz / Noha Sadek
The Minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H.J. Marchand
Part 2: Preserving Yemen’s Architectural Heritage
The Campaign to Preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock
Preserving Shibam: The City of Towering Mud Houses / Tom Leiermann
Preserving and Transmitting Traditional Building Techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore
Majil and Birka: Cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer
Part 3: Making Space & Place in Yemen
Paradise Built: Al-Shahari’s Description of Sanaa in the Twelfth/Eighteenth Century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith
A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman
Bodies on the Move: Gender Dynamics on a Sanaani Minibus / Gabriele Vom Bruck
The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley
Views of Aden / St John Simpson
Afterword: Preservation of Cultural Heritage is the Preservation of Cultural Identity and Belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh And Fahd Al-Quraishi
Architectural Heritage of Yemen
：Buildings that Fill My Eye
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