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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandy Isenstadt; Kishwar Rizvi |
ISBN: | 9780295988214 0295988215 9780295987941 0295987944 9780295800301 0295800305 |
OCLC Number: | 183264995 |
Description: | x, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction : Modern architecture and the Middle East : the burden of representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi -- Jerusalem remade / Annabel Wharton -- Modern architecture, preservation, and the discourse on local culture in Italian colonial Libya / Brian L. McLaren -- Visions of Iraq : modernizing the past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson -- Baghdad's urban restructuring, 1958 : aesthetics and the politics of nation building / Panayiota I. Pyla -- Democracy, development, and the Americanization of Turkish architectural culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdoğan -- Temporal states of architecture : mass immigration and provisional housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky -- Modernisms in conflict : architecture and cultural politics in post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- Palestinian remembrance days and plans : Kafr Qasim, fact and echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics -- Global ambition and local knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright -- From modernism to globalization : the Middle East in context / Nezar Alsayyad. |
Series Title: | Studies in modernity and national identity. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi. |
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Abstract:
Focuses on the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, post-war Turkey, and on to Iraq, this title looks around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's materials, methods, and motives.
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This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary discourse on modernism in general. * Journal of Society for Architectural Historians * Read more...

