Back to Earth: Adobe Building in Saudi Arabia by Facey, Willaim

Riyadh: Al-Turath, 1997. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/very good. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 216 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Al-Turath, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Dust Jacket: No marks or blemishes or signs of wear, abuse, or neglect (Photo). The flaps are unclipped and the ISBN is visible and undisturbed. A complimentary, protective, and removable Mylar cover will be placed on the DJ prior to shipment to the purchaser. Book: A high-quality and large sturdy book in pristine condition. Beautiful full-color endpapers (photo). Illustrations on virtually every page, including numerous full-color plates (photo).Includes a Table of Contents, an Introduction by Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abd al-aziz Al Saud, seven chapters, a Glossary, Notes, a Bibliography, and an Index.Shipped in a protective cardboard box with free shipping and returns to the domestic market."This is the story of a Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan's attempt to restore a neglected mud-brick farmhouse. Back to Earth highlights the important implications this complex project has for rural housing and the place of traditional materials in modern building. HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Sa'ud is perhaps… Read More

Riyadh: Al-Turath in Association with The London Centre of Arab Studies, 1997. Tips of the boards very lightly bumped. The bottom corner of the front panel of the slightly edge worn dust jacket is frayed. Until 1986, when it was acquired by H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Sa'ud, the old farmhouse at al-'Udhaibat was a tumble-down, neglected mud-brick ruin, no different from many other such buildings which have survived in Saudi Arabia from before modernisation. It was unmaintained and - as all buildings of sun-dried mud will, if left - was quietly subsiding into oblivion. Al-'Udhaibat is situated just north of the metropolitan sprawl of modern Riyadh, in a location of special resonance for Saudi Arabians. For it lies in the great Wadi Hanifah, just south of al-Dir'iyyah, the old, ruined mud-built capital of the First Saudi State and hub of the 18th-century Islamic reform movement. How the attempt to restore this modest farmhouse, once owned by the late King Faisal, developed into a… Read More

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Al-Turath/The London Centre of Arab Studies. Bound in perfect brown cloth, with bright gilt title lettering to spine, this hardcover 1997 First Edition is VG in VG wrapper. (V111)/216pp with Introduction by Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Sa ud, Seven Chapters, Glossary, Collection of large colour plates, Notes, Bibliography and Index. Decorated endpapers, size is 11"x 10", Condition all VG . Collectible VG. Hardback. First Edition. 1997.