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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2010
Modern architecture and the Mediterranean: vernacular dialogues and contested identities
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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
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479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017], ©2017
Architecture in Asmara : colonial origin and postcolonial experiences / edited by Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf.
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479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017], ©2017
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'Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956' examines the visual, material, and spatial presence of radio as it reshaped Canadian society in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of radio sets and advertisements, the authors explain how marketing and design were crucial to convincing Canadians to adopt this modern technology. They(...)
Seeing, selling and situating radio in Canada, 1922-1956
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'Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956' examines the visual, material, and spatial presence of radio as it reshaped Canadian society in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of radio sets and advertisements, the authors explain how marketing and design were crucial to convincing Canadians to adopt this modern technology. They also discuss how new kinds of spaces were produced by radio, by tracing its intersecting networks of communication and commercialism, public and private places, material and imagined sites. Contains a series foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino and an introduction by Christine Macy.
Architecture in Canada