Architecture in the Emirates
by Philip Jodidio
from Taschen
Construction fever in the Gulf
The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an unparalleled architectural boom in recent years. With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughout the area, it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural District project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot.
Architects featured: AEDAS, Tadao Ando, Asymptote, Atkins, Behnisch Architects, Frank O. Gehry, Gensler, Zaha Hadid, HOK Sports, Kazuhiro Kojima, KPF, Greg Lynn, Jean Nouvel, OMA/Porsche Design, Oosterhuis NL, Carlos Ott, I.M. Pei, RNL, Hadi Simaan, SOM, Pei Zhu
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects--from the firmly established to the up-and-coming--with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation or region featured.
Dubai Architecture & Design (Architecture & Design Books)
by daab
from daab
About 30 of the newest buildings, hotels, restaurants, shops and museums of Dubai will be shown. Along with Shanghai Dubai is the city of the most rapid architectural changes. Projects will be listed in alphabetical order to the architects and designers, presented in a very clear layout. Plans will show the layouts of the buildings and single rooms.
The United Arab Emirates: A Study In Survival (Middle East in the International System)
by Christopher M. Davidson
from Lynne Rienner Publishers
Spectrum Guide to United Arab Emirates
from Interlink Publishing Group
The UAE, composed of the seven states of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, have made the desert bloom-for the benefit of both citizen and tourist.
Parks, golf courses, and racecourses stand in lush and verdant contrast to the desert sand, while gardens ablaze with tropical color enrich the wide, tree-lined roads and avenues of the Emirates' twenty-first century cities. Yet just outside civilization, the ancient sands of the Arabian Desert lure the visitor. With a detailed section on the economy, Spectrum Guide to the United Arab Emirates is the first comprehensive and visitor-friendly guide to this modern grouping of states. It is an essential companion for business travelers and tourists alike.
Information Systems Education: Recommendations and Implementation (British Computer Society Monographs in Informatics)
by R. A. Buckingham
from Cambridge University Press
The major part of this book consists of a curriculum for those who intend to follow a professional career in information systems design. This is a comprehensive revision of a curriculum initially prepared by IFIP and published in 1974. The new curriculum is much broader in scope and takes account of the immense changes in the technology available, in the variety of systems being developed and in the role of the systems designer. The material can be readily adapted by designers of courses to meet their own specific requirements. The second part of the book comprises papers from a number of international contributors on the practical aspects of implementing such a curriculum in different parts of the world.
The Political Culture of Leadership in the United Arab Emirates
by Andrea B. Rugh
from Palgrave Macmillan
Arab Media in the Information Age (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research)
from Emirates Center for Strategic Studies
Examining the Arab media’s influence in shaping Arab public opinion and the western perspectives of the Arab world, 'Arab Media in the Information Age' addresses the important questions facing observers today: what is the relationship between media independence and credibility? To what extent do commercial interests and political influence affect Arab media? What is the impact of technology on Arab media? And most importantly what is the direction for the future? With comment and analysis from leading Arab and international academics such as Naomi Sakr and media professionals such as Greg Dyke, 'Arab Media in the Information Age' is crucial to understanding the current realities for Arab media and assessing directions for the future.
A Century in Thirty Years : Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates
from Middle East Policy Council
Scholarly papers on the history, politics, economics and sociology of the United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates: A Country Study
by Federal Research Division
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) in 1993 was a federation of seven separate amirates that had joined together in the winter of 1971-72 to form a single independent country. The new nation was created out of the British dependencies that had been known as the Trucial Coast states (also seen as Trucial Oman or Oman Coast) since 1853 when Britain and the local rulers signed the Treaty of Maritime Peace in Perpetuity, an agreement that ceded to London responsibility for foreign affairs. The individual amirates of the UAE include Abu Dhabi (also seen as Abu Zaby), Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Dubayy (also seen as Dubai), Ras al Khaymah, Sharjah (also seen as Ash Shariqah), and Umm al Qaywayn.
THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) in 1993 was a federation of seven separate amirates that had joined together in the winter of 1971-72 to form a single independent country. The new nation was created out of the British dependencies that had been known as the Trucial Coast states (also seen as Trucial Oman or Oman Coast) since 1853 when Britain and the local rulers signed the Treaty of Maritime Peace in Perpetuity, an agreement that ceded to London responsibility for foreign affairs. The individual amirates of the UAE include Abu Dhabi (also seen as Abu Zaby), Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Dubayy (also seen as Dubai), Ras al Khaymah, Sharjah (also seen as Ash Shariqah), and Umm al Qaywayn.
Now & Then: Abu Dhabi
Now & Then - Abu Dhabi is a photographic insight into the capital city and emirate of a nation whose fortunes waned in one area to be replaced by oil wealth in another. This book is a beautiful and historical photographic record, and will be an inspiration for photographers in the years to come.
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