Main entry:

Camacho, Ricardo, 1979- author.

Title & Author:

Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East / Ricardo Camacho, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Sara Saragoça Soares = الحداثة العربية ١٩٦٨- ٢٠١٨ : تاريخ الممارسة المعمارية في الشرق الأوسط / ريكارو كاماتشو, دالل مساعد الساير, سارا سارلغوسا سوارج. Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East / Ricardo Camacho, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Sara Saragoça Soares = Al-ḥadāthah al-'Arabīyah 1968-2018 : tārīkh al-mumārasah al-miʻmārīyah fī al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ / Rekārdū Kāmātshū, Dālal Musāʻid al-Sāyir, Sārā Sārāghūsā Sūārj.

Publication:

New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2021.
New York, NY ; Barcelona : Distribution, Actar D, Inc.
Barcelona, Spain : [printer not identified]
©2021

Description:

364, 219 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This book was the result of the access to PACE archives, which was granted to the authors from 2016 to 2018, with the generous support of Tarek Shuaib. The publication was enhanced with the contribution of: Suhair Al-Mosully, Roula El-Khoury, Iain Jackson, Hyun-Tae Jung, Michael Kubo, Edward Nilsson, Caecilia Piei, and Christoph Sehl. Fundamental contributions for the image and book's visual identity were provided by Pedro Duarte Bento; the graphic design from the designers (Nowhere Studio); and Antje Hanebeck, who was commissioned for the visual essay."--Page 3.
"Supported by prominent Kuwaiti institutions such as the Pan Arab Consulting Engineers (PACE), this book is based on several years of research, which included on-site visits, photographic surveys and interviews with current and former architects, planners, contractors, historians and city officials. The analysis was also supported by extensive archival investigation, which provided old city plans, drawings, original photographs, film footages, correspondences, legal documents, contractors' brochures, architectural and construction press, journals, local magazines, popular press and a range of other documents."--Page 6.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: A history of architectural practice in Kuwait -- Pan-Arab dialogues. Culture of practice : people, ideas, and office culture -- Charles Toufic Haddad -- Peter Antao -- Resham Singh -- Michael Gebhart -- Branko M Brankovic -- David Hansen -- Michael Henthorn -- Raouf Eskander -- Ghany Sadoon -- Saib Yousef Nackasha -- Hakam Jarrar -- Raʻad Al-Mumayiz -- Ghazi Al-Nafisi -- Tarek Shuaib. -- Pan-Arab narratives. Introduction -- Infrastructures : oil and water -- Individual dreams : the making of the modern villa -- Housing for all : desert and urbanism as a social project -- State building : museum, school, nation -- Kuwait abroad : KFAED and its projects -- Collaborative endeavors : Western and local firms -- Bricks and arches : developing a Pan Arab architectural language -- An urban generator : the case of Beirut Street, Hawally -- The Banking District : Central Business District Area 5 -- A typology phenomenon : urban artefacts of modern Kuwait -- The new Middle Eastern streetscape : the case of Sharq -- Infrastructures : roads and bridges. -- Pan-Arab speculations. Infrastructure and statecraft : British architects in Kuwait / Iain Jackson -- Discourse and practices of British culturalism : Wilson & Mason in Iraq (1920-1950) / Caecilia Pieri -- The work of Sami Abdul Baki in Beirut and Kuwait, 1947-1960 / Roula El-Koury -- Regional exchange and knowledge transfer through building practices : the work of PACE in Yemen, 1968-2016 / Manar Moursi -- Concrete ventures : TAC, PACE, and transnational exchanges in the construction of modern Kuwait / Michael Kubo -- Urban memory and preservation in Kuwait : a case study of Souq Al-Wataniya / Edward Nilsson -- Regional Arab modernism / Suhair Al-Mosully -- Designing for affluence : three identical towers in Kuwait City / Hyun-Tae Jung. -- A glance at Kuwait : introduction to a photographic reflection by Antje Hanebeck / Christoph Sehl. -- A visual essay / Antje Hanebeck -- Afterword / Tarek Shuaib.
Muqaddimah : tārīkh al-mumārasah al-miʻmāriyah fī al-Kuwayt -- al-Ḥiwārāt al-ʻArabiyah -- al-Sardiyāt al-ʻArabiyah -- al-Taʼammulāt al-ʻArabiyah -- Maqāl marʼī bi-ʻadasat Antīh Hānībīk -- al-Khātimah / Ṭāriq Shuʻayb.
Text in English and Arabic (same content) printed on pages numbered in opposite directions.
English and Arabic text bounded back-to-back and inverted.
Parallel English and Arabic text translated from the English.

Summary:

"This new publication expands on the growing interest for the building and urban practice exchange between territories throughout the Middle Eastern region which remains at the threshold of architectural theory, postcolonial critique, and visual cultures studies. This book format exposes relevant and critical material on the individual's education and experiences as well as the architecture practice and influence in the Middle East."--Front cover flap.

ISBN:

9781948765275
1948765276

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Arab countries.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) États arabes.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Arab countries

Added entries:

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed, author.
Saragoça, Sara, 1975- author.
Camacho, Ricardo, 1979- Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018.
Shuaib, Tarek, writer of afterword.
Hanebeck, Antje, 1968- photographer.
Musaed Alsayer, Dalal author.
PACE (Architectural engineering firm), sponsoring body.
Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018. Arabic.

Ḥadāthah al-'Arabīyah 1968-2018 : tārīkh al-mumārasah al-miʻmārīyah fī al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ
Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East /

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310077
Call No.: BIB 255204
Status: Available