Landscapes of Desert Architecture and city around the Islamic Sahara
This paper is an excerpt of a PhD Thesis in “Architecture. Theories and project”, presented at DiAP – Department of Architecture and Project of Sapienza Universita di Roma in April 2012. Thesis’ title: “Around the Sahara desert. Enduring Topographies between Architecture, Desert and City”: supervisors: professors Ludovico Micara and Raffaele Panella. In this short text we will examine scientific premises and limits concerning a broader field of study, the settlement mechanism around the Sahara desert, deepening the processus of landscape construction, to be intended as a complex relationship between religion, geography and human adapting ability.