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Modernism and the Middle East : Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Modernity and National Identity SeriesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295800301
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernism and the Middle EastDDC classification:
  • 720.1/0309560904
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 -- M58 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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