Beirut bereft : architecture of the forsaken and map of the derelict = Bayrūt al-thaklá : bināʼāt majfūwah wa-jughrāfiyā al-ihtirāʼ / photographs by Ziad Antar ; text by Rasha Salti ; translation Mohammad Talaat Khedr.

Main entry:

Salti, Rasha, 1969- author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

[Sharjah, Unted Arab Emirates] : Sharjah Art Foundation, [2021]
©2021

Description:

101 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
First released in 2009 by Sharjah Biennial.
Text in English and Arabic.

Summary:

Perched on the edge of the Mediterranean, the city of Beirut was once a bustling site of modern architecture. Since the Lebanese Civil War, which broke out in 1975 and claimed over 120,000 lives before its cessation in 1990, many of Beirut's modernist gems have lain abandoned or ruined. Beirut Bereft profiles 57 of these structures as indicative of the wider fragmentation of Lebanon. Lebanese writer Rasha Salti and photographer Ziad Antar generated a visual, textual and cartographic vocabulary to profile the skeletons of office towers, hotels and apartment blocks that overlook the serene Mediterranean. One such building, the Murr Tower, has become something of an emblem of the destruction and lost hopes of Beirut. Begun in 1974 and incomplete at the beginning of the war, this Corbusier-inspired structure now looms over a city trying to find its way again.

ISBN:

9789948024835 paperback
9948024834 paperback

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Lebanon Beirut Pictorial works.
Architectural photography Lebanon Beirut.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Liban Beyrouth Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie d'architecture Liban Beyrouth.
Buildings
Beirut (Lebanon) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Beirut (Lebanon) Buildings, structures, etc.
Lebanon Beirut

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photographs
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Antar, Ziad, 1978- photographer.
Khedr, Mohammed Talaat, translator.
Sharjah Art Foundation.
Bīnālī al-Shāriqah lil-Funūn al-Tashkīlīyah (9th : 2009 : Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
United Arab Emirates Shāriqah.

Bayrūt al-thaklá : bināʼāt majfūwah wa-jughrāfiyā al-ihtirāʼ
بيروت الثكلى ، بناءات مجفوة وجغرافيا الإهتراء.

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Call No.: 315972
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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