Description
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays offering treatment of the development of architecture in the Middle East. This book also demonstrates the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it.
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
