The Miracle of Divriği An Essay on the Art of Islamic Ornamentation in Seljuk Times

Product Description <br/>The Miracle of Divrigi<br/> About the Author <br/>Dogan Kuban was born in Paris in 1926. After graduating from the Department of Architecture in Istanbul Technical University in 1949, he became a teaching assistant in the History of Architecture. In the 1950s he traveled to Italy to study Renaissance architecture, and in 1962 he went to the University of Michigan in the USA as Visiting Instructor with a Fullbright Scholarship. During certain periods in the 1960s and 1970s Cuban worked, under Harvard University Scholarship, in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington D. C. In 1965 Kuban earned his professorship for the book The Origins and Problems of Anatolian Turkish Architecture, and between 1973 and 1976 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, where he worked to establish the History of Architecture and Restoration Institute. The Institute was opened in 1974 and he served as its President. Currently he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Agha Khan Awards for Architecture. Kuban has published numerous books and articles on Turkish, Islamic, and Anatolian architecture and art, and in is works he argues that Turkish art and architecture should be viewed as an original field of creativity.