| Description |
1 online resource (x, 303 p.) |
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Studies in modernity and national identity |
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Studies in modernity and national identity.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Modern architecture and the Middle East: The burden of representation -- Part I: Colonial constructions -- 1. Jerusalem remade -- 2. Modern architecture, preservation, and the discourse on local culture in Italian colonial Libya -- Part II: Building the nation -- 3. Visions of Iraq: modernizing the past in 1950s Baghdad -- 4. Baghdad's urban restructuring, 1958: aesthetics and the politics of nation building -- 5. Democracy, development, and the Americanization of Turkish architectural culture in the 1950s -- 6. Temporal states of architecture: mass immigration and provisional housing in Israel -- 7. Modernisms in conflict: architecture and cultural politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem -- 8. Palestinian remembrance days and plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo -- Part III: Overviews and openings -- 9. Global ambition and local knowledge -- 10. From modernism to globalization: The Middle East in context |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-287) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Architecture and society -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
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ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation.
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Architecture and society
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Arkitektur och samhälle -- Mellanöstern -- historia -- 1900-talet.
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957-
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Rizvi, Kishwar
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| LC no. |
2021694458 |
| ISBN |
9780295800301 |
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0295800305 |
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0295988215 |
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9780295988214 |
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