The book incorporates the latest biblical archaeological findings and interpretations. The material is presented by subject matter: cities; architectural elements; cultic structures; tombs; waterworks; agriculture; system of weights and measures; tools and utensils, and more.

290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition.

Knowledge of architecture in the biblical period has been limited both by the lack of information on architectural details in the ancient records and by the infrequent survival of the buildings themselves as the passage of the centuries the activities of succeeding generations of builders contributed to their eventual destruction. Of those buildings which have been found among the ruined cities of Canaan and early Israel, we are fortunate if one or two layers of masonry remain above the foundation level.

The author explores the history of Jerash and other Decapolis cities, including the adventures and researches of the nineteenth-and twenienth-century travellers and scholars. Against this background, Jerash as it is today is then described and illustrated with many architectural drawings, plans, reconstructions, photogrphs and maps.

224 pages, softcover, good condition: clean and tight copy. ISBN 0701125918.

Jerash is one of the three great classical city sites of the Near East. It is, however,altogether different from Petra and Palmyra. The grandeur of Jerash is tempered by a charm to which one can relate immediately. Here the gods of antiquity presided benignly over the everyday life of the people, and still one can feel this human measure. For above all, Jerash is typical of a prosperous provincial Roman town.

A proposal for the project and the conservation for the Temple and the Western Wall area.

When the apartment complex Habitat (Moshe Safdie, architect) appeared fully formed at Montreal's EXPO 67, it was greeted as a victory for humane values within the human jungle, an urbane solution to the housing crisis in the urban centers of the world. Beyond Habitat is a highly personal statement—almost a diary—covering the author's life and career before Habitat, his struggle to transform Habitat from a "design solution" on paper to a living reality, and his general ideas on housing and other matters since its completion. The book is illustrated with halftones of his buildings. 
Safdie was born in the city of Haifa in 1938 and moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15 years old.

You say the word `house` and it means so many different things to different people. One person sees it on an open road in the countryside; another sees a village. One thinks of a farm; another of a cliff dwelling in the urban landscape. Environment is culture and culture is archetypal; it grows from deep within you, embodies long-lived feelings towards shelter, family, community and self. To me the word `house` calls up images peculiar to my early environment.

Plans and projects for different parts of Jerusalem. Contents: Jerusalem's Central Planning Theme: Its Formation and Main Componets; Restoration of the Old City Walls, Gates and Adjacent Gardens; Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter; Rehabilitation of the Muslim Christian Quarters; The "Cultural Mile" - Development of the South-Western part of the Old Coty Basin - Nearing Completion; The New Neighborhoods and Projects in the Enlarged City Center; Preservation of Natural Landscape; Projects and Planning Problems in Town Center; Old and New: Preservation, Renovation and Revitalization of Buildings of Architectural and Historical Importance; The City as a Museum; The Research and Study of Jerusalem.

This book deals with the architectural history of the Europen Synagogue. It tries to show when and why structural and stylistic forms were adopted, certain changes were made and certain symbols given expression. But beyond the story of a building, I tries to convey something of the life of the Jewish people, its beliefs, its hopes, and its experiences. With 246 photographs and illustrations.

In Corinth, at the foot of the steps leading to the ancient propylaea (gateway), archaeologists found a block of white marble inscribed Sinagoga Ebraion. This marble block is possibly the oldest extant trace of a synagogue building on European soil.