{"product_id":"modernism-and-the-middle-east-9780295988214","title":"Modernism and the Middle East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Society for Architectural Historians *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation \/ Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One | Colonial Constructions\u003cbr\u003e 1. Jerusalem Remade \/ Annabel Wharton\u003cbr\u003e 2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya \/ Brian L. McLaren\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two | Building the Nation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad \/ Magnus T. Bernhardsson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building \/ Panayiota I. Pyla\u003cbr\u003e 5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s \/ Sibel Bozdogan\u003cbr\u003e 6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel \/ Roy Kozlovsky\u003cbr\u003e 7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem \/ Alona Nitzan-Shiftan\u003cbr\u003e 8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo \/ Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three | Overviews and Openings\u003cbr\u003e 9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge \/ Gwendolyn Wright\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context \/ Nezar Alsayyad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400916312407,"sku":"9780295988214","price":110.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295988214.jpg?v=1730471939","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-and-the-middle-east-9780295988214","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}