Seizing Jerusalem - The Architectures of Unilateral Unification

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is associate professor and chair of the architecture program in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Encounters: Modern Architecture and Israeli Nationalism
2. Profession: East Jerusalem and the Emergence of the Sabra Architects
3. State: Facts on the Ground
4. City: Urban Beautification
5. Frontier: A Holy Testing Ground for a Discipline in Crisis
6. Project: The Western Wall Plaza
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the author

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is associate professor and chair of the architecture program in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Summary

The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city

Product details

• Authors: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780816694280
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9428-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Quadrant Book; A Quadrant Book; A Quadrant Book; Quadrant Book
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history