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Modernism and the Middle East:Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

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EAN
9780295987941
ISBN
0295987944
Subject Area
Philosophy, Architecture
Publication Name
Modernism and the Middle East : Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General, Aesthetics, Regional
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Kishwar Rizvi
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295987944
ISBN-13
9780295987941
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64155452

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Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Modernism and the Middle East : Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General, Aesthetics, Regional
Type
Textbook
Author
Kishwar Rizvi
Subject Area
Philosophy, Architecture
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-051765
Reviews
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.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
720.1/0309560904
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi Part One Colonial Constructions 1. Jerusalem Remade / Annabel Wharton 2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLaren Part Two Building the Nation 3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson 4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building / Panayiota I. Pyla 5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan 6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky 7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics Part Three Overviews and Openings 9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright 10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context / Nezar Alsayyad Bibliography Contributors Index
Synopsis
This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.
LC Classification Number
NA2543.S6M58 2008

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