Medieval Courtyard Design: Converging Urban Morphologies from Europe to the Middle East

This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptiness—the “bounded void”—functions as architecture’s primary generative principle. Moving beyond conventional object-based analysis, the book demonstrates that architecture’s essence lies not in built form but in calibrated absence.

Through rigorous comparative analysis, readers discover how courtyards operate as environmental mediators, soci...