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Une occupation civile : la politique de l'architecture israélienne

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Ce livre traite de politique et d'architecture - de leurs interactions, de leurs intersections. Une occupation civile. La politique de l'architecture israélienne est la somme de travaux d'architectes, d'universitaires et d'auteurs israéliens, qui permet d'examiner le rôle de l'architecture israélienne dans le conflit du Moyen-Orient. À travers des essais, des cartes et des photographies, Une occupation civile démontre comment l'architecture et l'urbanisme sont, en un siècle, passés du statut d'activités professionnelles banales à celui d'instruments tactiques et d'armes stratégiques. Depuis le début du XXe siècle, le projet déclaré du sionisme consistait à bâtir un foyer national pour le peuple juif sur la terre d'Israël. Depuis l'offensive d'implantation des années trente, fondée sur les villages de type Homa Oumigdal (mur et tour) en passant par la planification totale de l'État d'Israël peu après son indépendance, jusqu'à la colonisation des territoires occupés de 1967 à ce jour - l'architecture israélienne a été l'instrument concret de la réalisation du projet sioniste, exactement à l'image de son objectif utopique. La controverse politique et professionnelle qui a suivi l'interdiction de la première édition de cet ouvrage par son éditeur originel, l'Association israélienne des architectes unis, est la preuve flagrante que l'architecture n'est absolument pas une activité innocente. Puisque Israël peut être considéré comme l'un des laboratoires les plus radicaux de notre époque, les questions que pose ce livre doivent être étudiées dans un contexte bien plus large: la politique de l'architecture israélienne n'est finalement pas différente de la politique de toute architecture.

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Patrimoine et guerre: reconstruire la place des martyrs à Beyrouth

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Dans cet ouvrage, Guillaume Éthier explore l'architecture, la forme et le rôle de la place publique qui, dans le contexte de la reconstruction nationale entreprise depuis la fin de la guerre civile libanaise, en 1990, s'est trouvée à l'avant-plan de la scène mémorielle. Il y jette un nouveau regard sur le Concours d'idées en planification urbaine pour la reconstruction de la place des Mrtyrs, concours international tenu à Beyrouth en 2004-2005. Par sa situation exceptionnelle au centre-ville de Beyrouth et par son rôle historique de haut lieu de la sociabilité, la place des Martyrs constitue le coeur de la nation libanaise. Sur le plan symbolique, elle incarne l'espoir d'une réconciliation d'envergure entre toutes les factions de la société. Cependant, entre les mains d'une société foncière, le processus de reconstruction du centre-ville de Beyrouth a pris un virage inattendu au milieu des années 1990. La logique spéculative des promoteurs risque en effet de faire l'impasse sur les enjeux identitaires et culturels. Devant ce spectre - et puisque la place des Martyrs n'a toujours pas été reconstruite - l'auteur balise des pistes qui rejoignent les objectifs collectifs assignés à la reconstruction de la place des Martyrs. Il s'agit de créer, simultanément, un lieu de mémoire et un lieu de rencontre.

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Modern architecture Kuwait: essays, arguments, interviews

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Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Within these four decades, the city state on the Arabian Gulf was comprehensively restructured and practically redesigned. Following a first volume with 150 carefully selected exemplary buildings, this second volume features interviews, essays and arguments, as well as transcripts of contemporary publications of these years. The texts by local and international scholars focus on questions regarding the significance and function of the buildings along with the role of individual and corporate protagonists that influenced, defined and created this highly dynamic restructuring process. Furthermore, all aspects are integrated into a wider regional and international context. The contributions are complemented by an array of photographic, layout, and archive materials.

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Tel Aviv : mythography of a city

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Offers an innovative approach to understanding the cultural history of Tel Aviv by exploring the mythical dimension and texture of the city. Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness and vitality. A young city about to celebrate its 100th anniversity, the mythic Tel Aviv continues to represent a fundamental idea that transcends the physical texture of the city and the everyday experiences of its residents. Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city. He relates Tel Aviv’s mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies. With critical insight, he evaluates specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture. Azaryahu explores three distinct stages in the history of the mythic Tel Aviv: "The First Hebrew City" assesses Tel Aviv as Zionist vision and seed of the actual city; "Non-Stop City" depicts trendy, global post-Zionist Tel Aviv; and "The White City" describes Tel Aviv’s architectural landscape, created in the 1930s and imbued with nostalgia and local prestige. Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City will appeal to urban geographers, cultural historians, scholars of myth, and students of Israeli society and culture.

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Beirut bereft: Architecture of the forsaken and map of the derelict

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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.

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They laid the foundation

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Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of Berlin. Nevertheless, upon arriving in their new desert home, completely unaccustomed to the climate, the culture or the language, these Bauhaus-era repatriates set about laying the foundations of a new society with amazing vigor. This volume, assembled by the Israeli architect Myra Warhaftig, provides comprehensive documentation of works by this first generation of Jewish-Palestinean architects, including kibbutzim, villages and cities with housing developments, hospitals, schools, universities, theaters, administrative buildings, etc. It also includes documentation of the lives and works of many of the most entrepreneurial individuals to escape in the diaspora, who, along with their descendents, laid the foundations of modern-day Israel.

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Designing modernity: Architecture in the Arab world 1945-1973

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This volume is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world. Nine case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the relevant cultural-historical, sociopolitical, climatic and demographic aspects. Questions concerning the region’s reciprocal relationship with modernist architecture in the period from 1945 to 1973 are investigated through the biographies of selected buildings and building complexes from Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. Texts, contemporary images, architectural drawings and archival material are used to document the process from commissioning and design through to completion and building use.

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Building Sharjah

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'Building Sharjah' reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.

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Volume 12 : Al Manakh

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Unveiled at the International Design Forum, held this year in Dubai, "Al Manakh" provides a long overdue, and much needed survey of the current state of architecture and design in the Middle East. Comprising three sections, the first features a guide to Dubai, edited by Moutamarat; the second, a survey of planning and development in the Gulf States, by AMO; and lastly, a Global Agenda for design, as envisioned by Archis. Illustrated throughout, and accompanied by essays and commentaries, "Al Manakh" provides valuable insights into a dynamic and volatile region.

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Notes on local architecture in Israel

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What is local architecture? What are its characteristics in general, and in a country like Israel--with its relatively recent statehood, mixed cultures and long-standing conflicts--in particular? Architect Gilead Duvhsani lays out a crystallized worldview and a systematic creation process for making local architecture.