Includes bibliographical references

Foreward / Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber -- 'Buildings that fill my eye': an introduction to the Architectural heritage of Yemen / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- Part 1. Architectural Traditions of Yemen. Early and medieval Sanaa: the evidence on the ground / Ronald Lewcock -- Rasulid architecture / Noha Sadek -- The Bani Tahir and the 'Amiriyya Madrasa: architecture and politics / Venetia Porter -- Some Sufi mausoleums in Yemen / Barbara Finster -- Mocha: maritime architecture on Yemen's Red Sea Coast / Nancy Um -- Construction, development and destruction on Jabal Razih / Shelag Weir -- The domestic architecture of the Northern Plateaux and Eastern Slopes of Yemen: building attitudes and formal identities / Fernando Varanda -- The art of building tower houses in the Wadi Hadhramaut / Pamela Jerome -- The forts of Yemen : the example of the Citadel of Ta'izz / Noha Sadek -- The minarets of Sanaa / Trevor H. J. Marchand -- Part 2. Preserving Yemen's Architectural Heritage. The campaign to preserve the Old City of Sanaa / Ronald Lewcock -- Preserving Shibam: the city of towering mud houses / Tom Leiermann -- Preserving and transmitting traditional building techniques in Yemen / Renzo Ravagnan, Sabina Antonini De Maigret, and Cristina Muradore -- Majil and Birka: cisterns in the Western Highlands of Yemen / Ingrid Hehmeyer -- Part 3. Making Space & Place in Yemen. Paradise built: Al-Shahari's description of Sanaa in the twelfth/eighteenth century / Tim Mackintosh-Smith -- A Nasraniyya in Sanaa, 1988-99 / Deborah Dorman -- Bodies on the move: gender dynamics on a Sanaani minibus / Gabriele vom Bruck -- The Zabidi House / Anne Meneley -- Views of Aden / St John Simpson -- Afterword. Preservation of cultural heritage is the preservation of cultural identity and belonging / Nabil Al-Makaleh and Fahd Al-Quraishi