Modernism and the Middle East : architecture and politics in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi.

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TextSeries: Studies in modernity and national identityPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.Description: x, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780295987941

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NA2543.S6 M58 2008

Incomplete contents:

Introduction: Modern architecture and the Middle East: the burden of representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi -- Colonial Constructions -- Jerusalem remade / Annabel Wharton -- Modern architecture, preservation, and the discourse on local culture in Italian colonial Libya / Brian L. McLaren -- Visions of Iraq: modernizing the past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson -- Baghdad's urban restructuring, 1958: aesthetics and the politics ofnation building / Panayiota I. Pyla -- Democracy, development, and the Americanization of Turkish architectural culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan -- Temporal states of architecture: mass immigration and provisional housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky -- Modernisms in conflict: architecture and cultural politics in post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- Palestinian remembrance days and plans: Kafr Qasim, fact and echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan Slyomovics --Gloval ambition and local knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright -- From modernism to globalization: the Middle East in context / Nezar Alsayyad.

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	Books	Library Neapolis University Pafos		NUP Main Collection		NA2543.S6 M58 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))				1	Available			3006974