{"product_id":"modern-architecture-and-the-mediterranean-9780415776349","title":"Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection of essays is a significant step towards establishing a wider picture of modernist architecture, opening up new ideas and unexplored regions. It is an important basis for future research, and also a valuable textbook for university courses.\" – \u003cem\u003eAntonello Alici, European Architectural History Network Newsletter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cem\u003eBarry Bergdoll \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction: North vs South \u003cem\u003eJean-François Lejeune \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Michelangelo Sabatino \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSouth \u003c\/strong\u003e 1. From Schinkel to Le Corbusier: The Myth of the Mediterranean\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ein Modern Architecture \u003cem\u003eBenedetto Gravagnuolo\u003c\/em\u003e 2. The Politics of Mediterraneità in Italian Modernist Architecture \u003cem\u003eMichelangelo Sabatino \u003c\/em\u003e 3. Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo: The Modern, the Vernacular and the Mediterranean in Spain \u003cem\u003eJean-François Lejeune\u003c\/em\u003e 4. Mediterranean Dialogues: Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet \u003cem\u003eSheila Crane\u003c\/em\u003e 5.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eNature and the People: The Vernacular and The Search for a \"True\" Greek Architecture \u003cem\u003eIoanna Theocaropoulou\u003c\/em\u003e 6. The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context, and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad Eldem \u003cem\u003eSibel Bozdogan\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: North\u003c\/strong\u003e 7. The Anti-Mediterranean in the Literature of Architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg’s \"Kulturarbeiten\"\u003cem\u003e Kai K. Gutschow\u003c\/em\u003e 8.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eErich Mendelsohn’s Mediterranean Longings: The European Mediterranean Academy and Beyond \u003cem\u003eIta Heinze-Greenberg\u003c\/em\u003e 9. Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations Out of Germany \u003cem\u003eEsra Akcan\u003c\/em\u003e 10. Tradition, Color and Surface: Mediterranean Resonances in the Work of Erik Gunnar Asplund \u003cem\u003eFrancis E. Lyn\u003c\/em\u003e 11. Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular \u003cem\u003eAndrea Bocco-Guarneri\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Between Dogon and Bidonville: CIAM, Team X and the Rediscovery of African Settlements \u003cem\u003eTom Avermaete\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018194616663,"sku":"9780415776349","price":52.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415776349.jpg?v=1750775977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-architecture-and-the-mediterranean-9780415776349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}