Contributions

  • Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957- - Contributor
  • Rizvi, Kishwar. - Contributor

Publication

2008 - University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,750 words, Guess

Page Count

303 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100295988215
  • ISBN-100295987944
  • ISBN-139780295988214
  • ISBN-139780295987941
  • LibraryThing6523573
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  • Goodreads5542249
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007051765
  • OCLC Control Number183264995
  • Better World Books9780295988214
  • Better World Books9780295987941
  • Open LibraryOL22487206M

Classifications

  • LCCNA2543.S6 M58 2008
  • LCCNA2543.S6M58 2008

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryHistoriaModernism (Aesthetics)Arkitektur och samhälleArchitecture and societyArchitecture, middle east21.62 history of architecture

Places

Times

Series Statement

  • Studies in modernity and national identity

Other Editions

  • Modernism and the Middle East: architecture and politics in the twentieth centuryUniversity of Washington Press2008-01-01

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