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
Uses architecture as a window to violent forces dominating the Middle East
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.
"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to
contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . .
Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future
research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it
is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary
discourse on modernism in general."
*Journal of Society for Architectural Historians*
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