Product Description

Covering all the important mosques, Koran schools, palaces, caravanserais and sepulchres of the Seljuks and Ottomans, this volume seeks to cover the signal achievements of Islamic architecture from the 13th to the 19th century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1228049 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 237 pages

From Library Journal
These titles are part of the new 40-volume "World Architecture" series to be completed over the next five years. Each volume covers a country or period; chief features of the series are the fine illustrations and the clear, concise texts that cover the material in style. A very good value, the books are printed in a large format with many illustrations in sumptuous color, even the maps and plans. Stierlin is best known for his 16-volume Architecture Universelle, published between 1964 and 1972. His text, together with his wife's photographs, brings alive the world of Turkish architecture, centered on the great architect Sinan (1489-1588). Kahn (architecture, MIT) gives a balanced survey of the dominant new styles of 20th-century architecture up to the advent of Postmodernism. For all architecture collections.APeter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

A beautiful book in what promises to be a wonderful series
This is one of the first books to be published in the Taschen World Architecture series that promises to cover about 30 or 40 books in total, and if you're looking for intelligent and beautiful books on architecture at real people's prices, then this might be the series for you.

The photography in this book is stunningly beautiful; however, it is not just an art book, and the written sections are extremely interesting and intelligent without being overly-simplistic or overly scholarly. The book is organised by era, starting with the Selcuks, and finishing with the late Ottomans. There are lots of very good, very clear photos illustrating each era; I think my particular favourite is a picture of a mosque in Eastern Turkey, with Mt. Ararat in the background.

We bought this book because of it's subject matter -- Turkish architecture -- but it is such a beautiful book (and at such a good price for an "Art" book) that I'm now tempted to collect the whole series as it is published.....

One note for fans of Turkey and the many eras of architecture in that country: as this book specifically covers the period from the Selcuks to the Ottomans, none of the Roman architecture is included, so no pictures of the Hagia Sophia, Ephesus, etc. Some hope though -- there is at least book on Roman architecture in the series.

Great photos, inconsistent captioning.
A quick survey, centered on Sinan, little outside Anatolia, but beautiful shots of many different sizes.Not much late Ottoman.