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Informationen zum Autor Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson, Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright. Klappentext This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length investigation of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East, ranging geographically from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and present-day Iraq. Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson., Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright. Zusammenfassung Presents 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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 ...
