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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Binding is slightly loose probably caused by weight of pages. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Mimar Koca Sinan (died 1588) the ‘great architect Sinan’ was appointed chief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan S?leyman 1 in 1539. During his fifty-year career he designed and constructed hundreds of buildings including mosques palaces tombs schools madrasas hospitals hospices caravansarays aqueducts and bridges. His distinctive architectural idiom left its imprint across a vast empire that extended from the Danube to the Tigris. He became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects particularly renowned for reconfiguring the cityscape of Istanbul. Sinan’s most influential buildings were his mosques where his inventive experimentation with centralized domed spaces often compared with parallel developments in Renaissance Italy produced monuments in which the central dome appeared weightless and the interior surfaces bathed in light. His innovations reached their height in grand mosque complexes comprising schools madrasas hospices guesthouses hospitals and baths commissioned by distinguished members of the Ottoman elite both men and women. In this innovative monumental work G?lru Necipoglu convinces us that Sinan’s rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his patrons rather than from the restless unrestrained formal experimenta- tion previously attributed to him. The author is the first to use a broad range of published and unpublished primary sources specifically in order to illuminate the cultural setting in which Sinan’s (OS)