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Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Seattle University of Washington Press 2008Description: x,303pISBN:
  • 9780295987941
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.103 ISE
Contents:
Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation 3 Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi Part I Colonial Constructions I Jerusalem Remade 39 Annabel Wharton PART I Colonial Constructions 2 Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya 61 Brian L, Mclaren Part II Building the Nation 3 Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Post in 1950s Baghdad 81 Magnus T Bernhardsson 4 Baghdad's Urban Restructuring. 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building 97 Panayiota I. Pyla 5 Democracy, Development. and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s 116 Sibel Bozdogan 6 Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel 139 Roy Kozlovsky 7 Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem 161 Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 8 Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Faa and Echo 186 Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics Part III Overviews and Openings 9 Global Ambition and Local Knowledge 221 Gwendolyn Wright 10 from Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context 255 Nezar Alsayyad Bibliography 267 Contributors 289 Index 293
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Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation 3
Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi
Part I Colonial Constructions
I Jerusalem Remade 39
Annabel Wharton
PART I Colonial Constructions
2 Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local
Culture in Italian Colonial Libya 61
Brian L, Mclaren
Part II Building the Nation
3 Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Post in 1950s Baghdad 81
Magnus T Bernhardsson
4 Baghdad's Urban Restructuring. 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics
of Nation Building 97
Panayiota I. Pyla
5 Democracy, Development. and the Americanization of Turkish
Architectural Culture in the 1950s 116
Sibel Bozdogan
6 Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and
Provisional Housing in Israel 139
Roy Kozlovsky
7 Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics
in Post-1967 Jerusalem 161
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
8 Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim,
Faa and Echo 186
Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics
Part III Overviews and Openings
9 Global Ambition and Local Knowledge 221
Gwendolyn Wright
10 from Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context 255
Nezar Alsayyad
Bibliography 267
Contributors 289
Index 293

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