Workplaces: The Transformation of Places of Production - Industrialization and the Built Environment in the Islamic World

; Al-Assad, Mohammad

ISBN 10: 6053991651 / ISBN 13: 9786053991656

Published by Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2011

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Editors: Yazici, Göksun Translator: 352 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Workplaces: The Transformation of Places of Production - Industrialization and the Built Environment in the Islamic World
• Publisher: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari, Istanbul
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6053991651
• ISBN 13: 9786053991656
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Mohammad al-Asad is a Jordanian architect and architectural historian. He is the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment in Amman. Dr. al-Asad studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and history of architecture at Harvard University, before taking post-doctoral research positions at Harvard and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has taught at the University of Jordan, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Distinguished Visiting Professor. He was also adjunct professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.