Book 2011

Modernism and the Middle East

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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Language: English
Published: 2011

Architecture and society
Modernism (Aesthetics)
History
Architecture, middle east
21.62 history of architecture
Arkitektur och samhälle
Historia

This collection of essays treats the development of modern architecture in the Middle East, ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, and on to present-day Iraq. The essays cohere around the encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism.