Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi.

Title & Author:

Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi.

Publication:

Description:

x, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in modernity and national identity

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
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.

Summary:

This collection of essays treats 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, and on to present-day Iraq. The essays cohere around the encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism.

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ISBN:

9780295988214 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0295988215 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780295987941 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0295987944 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295800301
0295800305

Subject:

Architecture and society Middle East History 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Middle East History 20th century.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture and society.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Arkitektur och samhälle Mellanöstern historia 1900-talet.
Middle East.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957-
Rizvi, Kishwar.
Studies in modernity and national identity.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259322
Call No.: BIB 190247
Status: Available

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