Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century
Publication details: Seattle University of Washington Press 2008Description: x,303pISBN:- 9780295987941
- 720.103 ISE
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Architecture | 720.103 ISE | Available | 025007 |
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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