TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isenstadt,Sandy
AU  - Rizvi,Kishwar
TI  - Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
T2  - Studies in Modernity and National Identity Series
SN  - 9780295800301
AV  - NA2543.S6 -- M58 2008eb 
U1  - 720.1/0309560904 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics) - Middle East - History - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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