Title & Author:

Constructing a sense of place : architecture and the Zionist discourse / edited by Haim Yacobi.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.

Description:

xiii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Whose order, whose planning? / Haim Yacobi -- Contested Zionism, alternative modernism : Erich Mendelsohn and the Tel Aviv chug in mandate Palestine / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- The flight of the camel : the Levant fair of 1934 and the creation of a situated modernism / Sigal Davidi Kunda and Robert Oxman -- Mold / Zvi Efrat -- Horizontal ideology, vertical vision : Oscar Niemeyer and Israel's height dilemma / Zvi Elhyani -- Trapped sense of peripheral place in frontier space / Erez Tzfadia -- The political construct of the 'everyday' : the role of housing in making place and identity / Rachel Kallus -- Urban iconoclasm : the case of the 'mixed city' of Lod / Haim Yacobi -- Planning to conquer : modernity and its antinomies in the 'new-old Jaffa' / Mark LeVine -- Academia and spatial control : the case of the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem / Diana Dolev -- Re-placing memory / Yael Padan -- Geometrical wounds : the work of Zvi Hecker in Israel, 1990 and 2000 / Timothy Brittain-Catlin -- On belonging and spatial planning in Israel / Tovi Fenster -- Fragile guardians : nature reserves and forests facing Arab villages / Naama Meishar -- A moment of change? Transformations in Israeli architectural consciousness following the 'Israeli pavilion' exhibition / Shelly Cohen.

Summary:

"The book first of all sets out the wider context of theoretical debates concerning the role of architecture in the process of constructing a sense of place then divides into six main sections. The book not only provides an innovative new perspective on how the Israeli state had developed, but also sheds light on how architecture shapes national identity in any post-colonial and settler state."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754634272
9780754634270

Subject:

City planning Israel.
Architecture Israel.
Zionism Philosophy.
Jews Israel Identity.
National characteristics, Israeli.
Israelis.
Juifs Israël Identité.
Israéliens.
Architecture Israël.
Architecture
City planning
Jews Identity
Stadtplanung
Zionismus
Bouwkunst.
Ruimtelijke aspecten.
Zionisme.
Architecture Israel 20th century.
Planification urbaine.
Architecture urbaine.
Sionisme.
Identité nationale.
Caractère national.
Israélien.
Juif.
Israel
Israël.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Yacobi, Haim.
Design and the built environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232019
Call No.: HT169.I784 C65 2004
Status: Available