Amendments and additions – most recent first

As I wrote on the first page of this site, there are likely to be continual changes as it develops over time. Looking at other sites I’ve found I have a problem discovering what has changed since my last visit so, in an attempt to track what I’ve changed myself, I’ll make a determined attempt to keep this up to date by using this page to record each change.

However, although each reference will take you to the actual comment, when there is more than one change on a single page you will be taken only to that page and will then have to look down for the amendment or addition.

The latest additions and amendments to any of the pages will be marked by a pale background – as in this paragraph. I hope this will be sufficient to mark changes and be relatively easily seen.

Date	Reference	Description
2010.12.28	Society – 1 Addendum – planning	A note has been added on issues relating to divorce, as well as an aerial photograph showing Doha and its environs.
2010.12.20	Society – 3	Photographs and notes have been added on the application of henna to hands of women and the feet of salaq.
2010.12.18	Arabic geometry – 2	A note on the construction of a regular pentagon has been added.
2010.12.17	References	Three references have been added, related to Qatar’s National Day celebrations.
2010.12.15	Arabic geometry – page 2	A note and photographs have been added on the Cairo tile patterning of a door.
2010.12.14	Gulf architecture – page 2	A note has been amended and a photograph added on old masaajid at Sumaismah.
2010.12.13	Greeting cards	A note and illustrations of seasonal greeting cards and the rationale for their shape have been added.
2010.12.11	Addendum – design elements	A note on workmanship has been continued.
2010.12.10	Addendum – design elements Addendum – traditional boats	Notes and photographs have been added on workmanship and converted tradtional boats.
2010.12.02	Cartography	A link has been made to a site dealing with the legend associated with Cassini’s maps.
2010.11.30	Islamic urban design – 4	Notes have been added on way-finding and its relationship with design.
2010.11.25	Arabic geometry – page 2	Additional photographs, sketches and notes have been made with regard to the Cairo pentagon.
2010.11.22	Cassini and Maraldi references César François Cassini – Cassini III The Babaud and Masson families Arabic geometry – page 2 Addendum – traditional boats	A number of small additions have been made and references added to the Cassini notes. Photographs and drawings have been added on the Cairo pentagon, and a note and photograph have been added on rowlocks on traditional Arabic craft.
2010.11.19	Arabic geometry – page 2	A note has been amended giving notice of the discovery of examples of the Cairo pentagon, and a diagram has been added for the construction of an equal sided pentagon.
2010.11.16	Islamic urban design – page 3	Notes have been added and a photograph added on a new development in Wakra.
2010.11.13	Society – page 1 Glossary	Notes and a number of photographs have been added on the habaan or Arabian bagpipe, and a number of words to the glossary.
2010.11.10	Society – page 2 References Glossary	Notes have been added on pearling, together with references and additions to the glossary.
2010.11.09	Gulf architecture – page 2	A note and photograph on old mosques have been added.
2010.11.08	Islamic urban design – page 2 References Addendum – history	A photograph of firemen, a number of references and two notes on Qatar’s history have been added.
2010.11.04	Addendum – Building Regulations	A note on the Qatar Construction Specifications has been added.
2010.11.01	Islamic urban design – page 2 Islamic urban design – page 3	Photographs and notes have been added on the design of housing and a mosque.
2010.10.31	Islamic urban design – page 1	A photograph and note have been added on urban design.
2010.10.29	Gulf architecture – page 5 Society – page 1	Photographs and commentary have been added on the design of carved balustrading, together with a note on religion. A related word has been added to the glossary.
2010.10.26	Addendum – old Qatar	Photographs and commentary have been added to the page dealing with the past in Qatar.
2010.10.24	Addendum – old Qatar	Photographs and notes have been added on the first hospital in Doha.
2010.10.23	Gulf architecture – 2 Gulf architecture – 2 Addendum – old Qatar	Photographs and notes on the al-Qubib mosque, Doha, have been added in three places on two pages.
2010.10.18	Giovanni Domenico Maraldi Giovanni Filippo Maraldi Cassini and Maraldi references	A number of small notes on the second and fourth Maraldi have been added, together with a reference.
2010.10.14	Islamic urban design – 2	Notes and photographs have been added on the design of elements commonly located on roofs.
2010.10.11	Islamic urban design – 2	A note and photograph have been added on a house design.
2010.10.09	Arabic geometry – page 2/2 Giovanni Domenico Cassini Islamic urban design – 1	Notes and a photograph have been added on the beginnings of Arabic mathematics and small amendments made to one of the Cassini pages. Photographs and comment have been made on the design of a mosque.
2010.09.28	Home	A number of small amendments have been made to coding through the site. It’s still not perfect…
2010.09.23	Addendum – history Addendum – traditional boats	A note has been expanded on British interests in the Gulf and a number of photographs added together with comments on traditional boats.
2010.09.20	References Addendum – old Qatar	Six references have been added relating to British influence in the Gulf, anthrapolgy and merchants, and a note on old buildings amended.
2010.09.16	Arabic geometry – page 2	A note and illustration of the Cairo pentagon have been added to one of the geometry pages.
2010.09.14	Addendum – design elements	Notes and illustrations have been added on bathroom design.
2010.09.12	References Perception	A number of references have been added together with a note on reading Arabic, and some code cleaning carried out.
2010.09.05	Gulf architecture – 3 References	A sketch has been amended, and a reference on dhows added.
2010.08.31	Addendum – traditional boats Glossary Islamic urban design – 3 Gulf architecture – 2	Notes have been amended relating to the protection of the hulls of traditional craft, and two words added to the glossary. Photographs and notes have been added on the design of a masjid.
2010.08.30	Gulf architecture – 2 References Gulf architecture – 3 Addendum – traditional boats	Notes and a photograph have been added on the use of shurfa on a new building, together with a number of references. Two sketches have been amended and notes and photographs relating to steering have been added.
2010.08.23	Gulf architecture – 4 Gulf architecture – 5	Notes and photographs have been added on decorated and ventilating naqsh panels.
2010.08.17	Gulf architecture – 2 References Addendum – boat types	Notes have been augmented and photographs added on mosques, and a reference added together with a note and photograph of a boat.
2010.08.12	Salata al-jadida	Notes have been augmented and photographs added on mosques and sikkat in Salata al-jadida.
2010.08.09	Arabic geometry – 1	A note on fourteenth century Western geometry has been added to one of the geometry pages.
2010.08.06	References	Five references have been added.
2010.08.01	Islamic urban design – 1	Notes on the design of a novel mosque have been added together with a note on the mosque of the Prophet.
2010.07.30	Gulf architecture – 1 Society – 2 References	Photographs and notes on a number of areas relating to the traditional way of life have been added, as have two references.
2010.07.29	Addendum – geography Society – 1	Photographs and notes on a number of areas relating to the society and geography of the country have been added.
2010.07.26	Addendum – traditional boats Addendum – boat types Glossary Society – 2 Islamic gardens Addendum – history	Photographs and notes on a number of areas relating to country craft, plants and industry have been added, together with additions to the glossary.
2010.07.22	Society – 1	A photograph and note on the mijwiz have been added.
2010.07.21	Society – 1 Society – 2 Society – 3 Glossary	A number of photographs have been added, some changed, and the related comments expanded. Additions have been made to the glossary.
2010.07.19	Society – 1	A number of photographs have been added and the related comments expanded.
2010.07.18	Society – 1 Addendum – Geography	Photographs and notes have been added and amended on camel racing, and a note added on the environmental effects of clearing mangroves.
2010.07.17	Society – 2 Islamic urban design – 3 References Islamic urban design – 5	A number of photographs accompanied by notes have been added on camels, and an addition made to notes on the RasGas building and references. Some photographs of signs have been added along with commentary.
2010.07.16	Society – 1 Society – 2	The note on the tambura has been updated and a number of photographs added. A note and photograph relating to bird traps have been added.
2010.07.14	Addendum – population Islamic urban design – 5	Population statistics have been brought up to date from official sources, and a note and photograph added on vehicular fire.
2010.07.12	Islamic urban design – 5 Addendum – old Qatar The building industry	Notes and photographs have been added on the creation of the New District of Doha, and a photograph of work at Umm Said in 1956. A new page has been added dealing with the building industry, and all pages revised to reflect this.
2010.07.09	Glossary Gulf architecture – 2	A number of words have been added to the glossary, and notes and photographs relating to two old mosques and a watch tower added on one of the architecture pages.
2010.07.08	Addendum – traditional boats Addendum – boat types	A number of photographs have been replaced by better images, new notes and photographs added, and the boats page reorganised into two pages.
2010.07.05	Islamic urban design – 3	A number of photographs and accompanying notes have been added on the design of the first modern buildings in Qatar.
2010.07.03	Islamic urban design – 3 Arabic geometry – 1	Notes and photographs have been added relating to the design of modern buildings, and on Arabic geometry.
2010.07.02	A new approach – principles	A note with illustrations has been added on an approach to the design of local distributors.
2010.06.27	A new approach – principles References Glossary	A note and diagram have been added on basic layout design. Three books have been added to the references and vocabulary to the glossary.
2010.06.23	References Glossary Arabic geometry – 1 Graphic studies	Additions have been made to the references and glossary pages. A note and a number of photographs have been added to one of the geometry pages, and a photograph and commentary added on a kufic design.
2010.06.18	Addendum – boats	A number of photographs have been replaced by better images, and new notes and photographs added.
2010.06.10	Iran – 1976	A section has been added to the photography area of photographs taken in Iran in 1976 and scanned from transparencies.
2010.06.06	Photography	A number of coding errors on the photography pages have been corrected.
2010.06.03	Gulf architecture – 5	A new page has been added on Gulf architecture, moving some existing material and adding some new. It is a work in progress, like much of this site…
2010.06.02	Gulf architecture – 2	Photographs and an accompanying note have been added on an old mosque in al-Wakra.
2010.05.31	Greeting cards	A couple of old card designs have been added to the greeting cards page.
2010.05.28	Play Graphic studies	Some diagrams relating to educational toys have been amended, and a sketch added in the graphic design area.
2010.05.26	References Arabic geometry – 2 Cartography	The construction of fifteen-point geometry has been added, together with a reference, and a background note on France in the eighteenth century.
2010.05.23	Islamic urban design – 5	A note and illustrations have been added on issues relating to signing
2010.05.19	Islamic urban design – 3	Notes and photographs have been added on the character of heritage development at Wakra.
2010.05.17	Gulf architecture – 3	Notes and photographs have been added on traditional wall failure and ceilings.
2010.05.16	Addendum – boats	Notes and photographs have been added relating to traditional boats, their fixtures and rigging.
2010.05.11	Gulf architecture – 1	A photograph and note relating to majaalis have been added.
2010.05.09	Addendum – boats Islamic urban design – 5 Gulf architecture – 2	Photographs and accompanying notes have been made on anchors, signing and rural development.
2010.05.08	Addendum – boats	A photograph and note have been added to the boats page.
2010.05.04	Islamic gardens Arabic geometry – 2 Glossary References	Notes, photographs and illustrations have been added on traditional Islamic gardens and Arabic geometryArabic geometry, some vocabulary has been added to the glossary, and a book to the references.
2010.05.01	Islamic urban design – 2	A note and photograph illustrating the poor placement of air-conditioning units has been added.
2010.04.29	Addendum – boats	A photograph and accompanying note on the baqaara have been added.
2010.04.28	Pressures for change Society – 1 References Addendum – population	Notes and references have been added relating to health, obesity in women and the upbringing of children. The population figures have been updated.
2010.04.26	Islamic urban design – 2 A new approach – principles Arabic geometry – 1 Addendum – boats Glossary	Notes and photographs have been added on architectural detailing, front wall development and geometrical patterns. A photograph and note on caulking has also been added and a number of words added to the glossary.
2010.04.24	Jacques Cassini The Age of Enlightenment Cassini and Maraldi references	Notes have been made on an early cartographic expedition organised by Jacques Cassini, and on France’s historical setting. A reference has been added to the Cassini and Maraldi section.
2010.04.22	Arabic geometry – 1 Addendum – old Qatar	Notes on the relationship between geometry and pattern have been added. A number of photographs and accompanying notes have been added on the Diwan al-Amiri and feriq al-Salata.
2010.04.19	References Addendum – old Qatar Gulf architecture – 2	A number of photographs, additions and amendments have been made on the old photographs of Qatar page, a photograph and note added on an old mosque, and three references have been added.
2010.04.16	Islamic urban design – 1 Society – 2	Photographs supported by notes have been written on informal majalis and bread shops.
2010.04.10	Design studies	A note and illustrations have been added on Internet based designing.
2010.04.09	Addendum – old Qatar Arabic geometry – 2 Arabic geometry – 1 Giovanni Fillipo Maraldi Giacomo Filippo Maraldi Cassini and Maraldi references	The page containing old photographs of Qatar has had a number of photographs and notes added to it, some mistakes corrected and other notes revised. A note on the division of angles by a factor of three has been added to, and a photograph added and note augmented on floral Islamic design. A brief note has been added on Maraldi III and Maraldi I, together with a reference.
2010.04.05	Islamic urban design – 1	A photograph and note on new mosques have been added.
2010.04.03	References Islamic urban design – 3 Gulf architecture – 2 Addendum – geography Gulf architecture – 2 Gulf architecture – 2	A reference has been added, a note amended on the Doha Club, and photographs and notes added on an old manara, geography and two more manaaraat.
2010.03.28	References Islamic urban design – 5 Islamic urban design – 4 Islamic gardens	Three references have been added, as have photographs and notes on signing, night lighting and floral displays.
2010.03.27	Islamic urban design – 5 Islamic urban design – 3 Islamic urban design – 5	Photographs and notes have been added on the design of roads, a building and advertising.
2010.03.22	Islamic urban design – 2 Arabic geometry – 1	A photograph and note have been added relating to Grand Hamad in Doha, and a photograph added to one of the geometry pages.
2010.03.21	Arabic geometry – 1 Arabic geometry – 1	Photographs of flower heads and accompanying notes have been added to one of the geometry pages together with a construction drawing.
2010.03.20	Arabic geometry – 2	A diagram has been added to the geometry page and a description expanded.
2010.03.19	Addendum – old Qatar	Three old photographs of Doha have been added along with commentary and suitable amendments.
2010.03.17	Gulf architecture – 2 Islamic urban design – 4 Appendix – population Glossary	Notes and photographs have been added on a mid-twentieth century minbar and roof parapet detailing, and on expatriate housing. Population statistics have been added, as have a number of words to the glossary.
2010.03.16	Gulf architecture – 2 References Addendum – old Qatar	A note and photograph of a manara have been added, along with two references. Two photographs of the old Grand Mosque have been added with commentary.
2010.03.14	Photography – Qatar	Ten photographs have been added to the Qatar photographs section.
2010.03.12	Addendum – boats References	A photograph and note on sail tackle have been added, together with three books to the reference section.
2010.03.11	Addendum – boats	A photograph and note on the jaliboot have been added.
2010.03.08	Corporate image Addendum – Old Qatar Islamic urban design – 2 References	A design sketch has been added in the Graphics area, and a date revised for an old photograph of Doha and accompanying notes amended. A photograph and note on blight have been added together with a number of references relating to space within landscaping.
2010.03.07	A new approach – principles Islamic urban design – 2 Islamic urban design – 3	The note on the location of a building on its site has been slightly expanded and a sketch added, and photographs and notes have been added on the public spaces outside houses and the character of new architectural designs.
2010.03.05	Gulf architecture – 2 Islamic urban design – 3	Notes and photographs have been added on old school design and the screening of openings.
2010.03.04	Islamic urban design – 2	A note and photograph of wall-mounted air-conditioners have been added.
2010.03.01	Society – 1 Addendum – old Qatar Islamic urban design – 2	A brief note has been added on the relationship between young boys and girls, and photographs and notes added on the Guest Palace to two pages.
2010.02.27	Society – 1 Graphic design studies	A note on the relationship between young men and women has been added, as has a graphic.
2010.02.23	Gulf architecture – 2	Annotated photographs have been added on mid-twentieth century buildings.
2010.02.22	Addendum – old Qatar	A number of old photographs have been added and accompanying text amended.
2010.02.21	Addendum – building regulations Addendum – old Qatar	A page has been added looking at building regulations, and all other pages amended accordingly. A photograph has been added to those on old Qatar, and text amended.
2010.02.19	References Arabic geometry – 1 Addendum – old Qatar Gulf architecture – 2	Three references have been added, as have a number of photographs with their accompanying notes amended, and a note and photograph on deterioration in old buildings.
2010.02.18	Addendum – old Qatar Glossary References Gulf architecture – 2	A number of old photographs and notes have been added, together with vocabulary to the glossary, two references and a photograph and note on an old building in Doha.
2010.02.17	Islamic architecture Gulf architecture – 2	Notes have been added on the conceptual design of mosques, and building in the nineteen-seventies.
2010.02.16	Society – 1 Addendum – boats Environmental control	Notes have been written on an aspect of the behaviour of women, a correction has been made on the treatment of the hulls of traditional craft, and a photograph and note added on sand encroachment on roads.
2010.02.15	Gulf architecture – 2	A note and photograph have been added on mosque design.
2010.02.14	Gulf architecture – 2 Gulf architecture – 4 Gulf architecture – 1	A note and photograph of a manara in Wakra have been added, as have a photograph on naqsh and a badu tent.
2010.02.13	Addendum – boats Gulf architecture – 2 Gulf architecture – 3	Notes and photographs on sails, minarets and doors have been added on the relevant pages.
2010.02.10	The household on its lot	A note has been added on the formal majlis.
2010.02.09	Arabic geometry – 2 Gulf architecture – 2	Notes and illustrations have been added on eleven point geometry, and a photograph and notes written on defensive architecture.
2010.02.08	Gulf architecture – 3 Addendum – boats References	Notes and photographs have been added on traditional doors. Notes have been amended on the sanbooq and jaliboot, and a list of other craft added to the boats page. A reference has been added.
2010.02.07	Gulf architecture – 2 Addendum – security References	Note have been written on sloping roofs and on central aspects of security, and an acronym has been added to the references.
2010.02.02	Design studies	A note and graphic have been added on kufic design work.
2010.01.30	The Babaud and Masson families Islamic urban design – 2	A note has been added relating to the marriage of the Marquis de Maillebois, and a photograph and note added on urban design.
2010.01.29	Appendix – planning	A note has been added on the 2032 Qatar National Master Plan.
2010.01.28	Islamic urban design – 2	A note and photograph have been added on villa design.
2010.01.27	Islamic urban design – 3	A note and photographs have been added relating to the development of the Cultural Village.
2010.01.26	Appendix – old Qatar Society – 2	A note and photograph have been added to the page illustrating old Qatar, and a note expanded and photographed added on pearls.
2010.01.25	Society – 2 Islamic urban design – 2	A note and photograph have been added on expatriates and on villas.
2010.01.22	Arabic geometry – 2 Gulf architecture – 3	A note on constructible polygons has been added along with a photograph and description of a traditionally designed door.
2010.01.21	Arabic geometry – 2	A note and illustrations have been added dealing with the heptadecagon or seventeen sided figure.
2010.01.20	Arabic geometry – 2	A note and illustrations have been added dealing with trisecting angles and lines.
2010.01.17	Arabic geometry – 2 Appendix – protection References The Babaud and Masson families Cassini and Maraldi references	The notes relating to Penrose tilings have been revised and supplemented, and an illustration of nineteen-point geometry added. A note has been added on the protection of buildings, and two books added to the references. In the Cassini section, three poems by Dorat to Madame de Cassini have been added together with a note on Caroline de Murat, and a number of references.
2010.01.12	Islamic urban design – 4	A note and photograph on public art have been added.
2010.01.11	Islamic urban design – 2 Appendix – planning	A photograph has been added on redevelopment together with notes on plans for the Heart of Doha project.
2010.01.08	Gulf architecture – 2	A note and photograph on trabeated construction have been added.
2010.01.07	Society – 3 Arabic geometry – 1 Addendum – links Addendum – boats References	Photographs and a note have been added relating to bracelets, and on floral designs. A link has been added on traditional craft in the Oman, together with a note on making holes watertight, and two references.
2010.01.06	Gulf architecture – 2 Graphic studies	A photograph and note relating to manaaraat has been added, and illustrations and notes have been added on kufic design.
2010.01.03	Society – 2 Islamic urban design – 1	A photograph illustrating a camel’s eye and nose has been added, and photographs and notes made on the design of manaaraat.
2010.01.02	Islamic urban design – 1 Gulf architecture – 1 References Islamic urban design – 1 Glossary	Notes and photographs have been added on modern mosque design, and photographs added on the hawlaani. A reference has been added and notes relating to minarets have been amended and added to, and additions have been made to the glossary.
2010.01.01	Home Society – 2 Gulf architecture – 1 Glossary Islamic urban design – 5 Pressures on Society Addendum – boats	A number of small amendments have been made throughout the site and the copyright notice updated, affecting all pages. A photograph and note have been added on camels, together with notes on camel saddles and some related vocabulary to the glossary. A note and photograph have been added on Roman and Arabic scripts, and a comment on reading as it relates to education has been added to the pressures page. Two photographs and comments have been added on sailed traditional craft.