Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Contents

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation 3 sandy isenstadt and kishwar rizvi part i Colonial Constructions 1 Jerusalem Remade 39 annabel wharton 2 Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya 61 brian l. mclaren part ii Building the Nation 3 Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad 81 magnus t. bernhardsson 4 Baghdad’s Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building 97 panayiota i. pyla 5 Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s 116 sibel bozdoğan 6 Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel 139 roy kozlovsky 7 Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem 161 alona nitzan-shiftan 8 Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo 186 waleed khleif and susan slyomovics part iii Overviews and Openings 9 Global Ambition and Local Knowledge 221 gwendolyn wright 10 From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context 255 nezar alsayyad Bibliography 267 Contributors 289 Index 293 ...