Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3868597239 ISBN 13: 9783868597233

Casa editrice: Jovis, 2022

Riassunto

(Bilingual Edition: English / Arabic)

Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world.
Nine case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the relevant cultural-historical, sociopolitical, climatic and demographic aspects. Questions concerning the region’s reciprocal relationship with modernist architecture in the period from 1945 to 1973 are investigated through the biographies of selected buildings and building complexes from Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

Texts, contemporary images, architectural drawings and archival material are used to document the process from commissioning and design through to completion and building use.

(Bilingual Edition: English / Arabic)

Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world. Nine case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the relevant cultural-historical, sociopolitical, climatic and demographic aspects. Questions concerning the region’s reciprocal relationship with modernist architecture in the period from 1945 to 1973 are investigated through the biographies of selected buildings and building complexes from Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

Texts, contemporary images, architectural drawings and archival material are used to document the process from commissioning and design through to completion and building use.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Philipp Oswalt has been Professor of Architectural Theory andDesign at the University of Kassel since 2006. From 1988 to 1994, he was editorof the architecture magazine ARCH+ and worked for OMA / Rem Koolhaas in1996/97. From 2009 to 2014, he served as director of the Bauhaus DessauFoundation.
George Arbid is anarchitect with successive teaching positions at the Académie Libanaise desBeaux-Arts, the American University of Beirut, and the Lebanese University. Heis the co-founder and director of the Arab Center for Architecture and hasserved on several competition and award juries.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jovis
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3868597239
• ISBN 13: 9783868597233
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285
• Redattore: Arbid George, Oswalt Philipp
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