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Typology of traditional houses
By Agnès Matha
If you ask Lebanese people about the buildings that symbolize the architecture of their country, the answers you get are almost invariably the same: everybody evokes the house with the red tiles and three arcades. "In reality, Lebanese... > Full Story |
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From the birth of the “house with three arcades” to its progressive disappearance
By Agnès Matha
In the collective consciousness, “the house with three arcades” probably constitutes the symbol of architecture in Lebanon. Also called house with a central hall due to the triple arcade opening on the heart of the house, it is generally... > Full Story |
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Architecture and identity
By Agnès Matha
Contrary to popular myth, the “house with the three arcades” is therefore not of Lebanese but of “Beiruty” origins. In the 1990's, after it was shown that this type of housing exists throughout the Mediterranean, experts... > Full Story |
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