The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel - Rilegato

Efrat, Zvi

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ISBN 10: 3959051336 ISBN 13: 9783959051330

Casa editrice: Spector Books, 2017

Riassunto

»The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel« is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project unprecedented in its relative scope and rates of growth, its political and ethical circumstances, and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. This project entailed the molding of a new terrain, the construction of dozens of new towns and hundreds of new rural settlements, and the appropriation of post-war architectural trends, especially Brutalism and Structuralism, as signifiers of national vigour and cultural ingenuity. Contrary to common belief, the State of Israel was not born of emergency routine or speculative ventures, but rather with the objective of designing an instantaneous model state.

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Zvi Efrat's »The Object of Zionism« is the most important research undertaken on the history of Israeli architecture to date. [...] Full of original insight and closely tuned to detail, texture and form, this book is itself a piece of architectural construction, and as such is destined to become a contemporary classic. --Eyal Weizman

This is a remarkable work of critical scholarship that relentlessly assembles and interprets a colossal archive. --Beatriz Colomina

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Spector Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3959051336
• ISBN 13: 9783959051330
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 951
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile