Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on 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, post-war Turkey, and on to Iraq, this title looks around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's materials, methods, and motives.
Trade Review"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary discourse on modernism in general."
* Journal of Society for Architectural Historians *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi
Part One | Colonial Constructions
1. Jerusalem Remade / Annabel Wharton
2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLaren
Part Two | Building the Nation
3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson
4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building / Panayiota I. Pyla
5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan
6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky
7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics
Part Three | Overviews and Openings
9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright
10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context / Nezar Alsayyad
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
