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

Contributors

nezar alsayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History, and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). He is the author and editor of many books, including Cities & Caliphs (1991); Forms of Dominance (1993); Consuming Tradition (2000); Hybrid Urbanism (2001); Muslim Europe/Euro Islam (2002); Urban Informality (2004); TheEndof Tradition(2004); MakingCairoMedieval (2005); and Cinematic Urbanism (2006). magnus t. bernhardsson teaches Middle Eastern History at Williams College . He is the author of Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and NationBuilding in Modern Iraq (2005). He is now working on a book that will explore U.S.-Iraqi relations between 1920 and 1990. sibel bozdoğan teaches architectural history and theory courses at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and at Bilgi University, Istanbul. She has published articles on the culture and politics of modern architecture, coauthored a monograph on the Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem (1987), and co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (1997). Her book, Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (2001), won the 2002 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of 289 Contributors the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Koprulu Book Prize of the Turkish Studies Association. sandy isenstadt teaches the history of modern architecture for Yale University ’s Department of the History of Art. He has written on post-World War II reformulations of modernism by the well-known émigré architects Richard Neutra and Josep Lluis Sert; on visual polemics in the urban proposals of Leon Krier and Rem Koolhaas; and on the history of American refrigerators, picture windows , landscape views, and real estate appraisals. His book, The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle-Class Identity (2006), describes the visual enhancement of spaciousness in the architectural, interior, and landscape design of American domestic design. His work has been supported with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. waleed khleif, apoet,isformerdirectorof theNazarethDocumentationCenter and a member of the editorial committee of al-Mawaqib, a monthly literary journal. He is the author of several books of poetry and historical studies of Nazareth and pre–1948 Palestine. roy kozlovsky is a doctoral candidate at the School of Architecture, Princeton University, and teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design, in New York. He has published articles on various aspects of postwar architecture, including essays on the spatial practices of the Beat writers, Team Ten urbanism, and playground design. His dissertation research on “Reconstruction through the Child: English Modernism and the Welfare State” has been supported by a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Woodrow Wilson Scholars Fellowship. brian l. mclaren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural history and theory courses and design. He has published essays on architecture and culture during the period of the Italian colonization of Libya in the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (2002) and in Muqarnas (2002), and had co-edited a volume (with D. Medina Lasansky), Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance, and Place (2004). His writings on architecture and tourism in Libya have also appeared in Italian Colonialism (2005), and in his recently published Architecture and Tourism inItalianColonialLibya:AnAmbivalentModernism (2006). His current book project is titled “Modern Architecture, Colonialism, and Race in Fascist Italy.” 290 Contributors alona nitzan-shiftan is an architect, historian, and critic of the politics of architecture in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary contexts with a focus on post–World War II architectural culture. She holds a Ph.D. and an S.M.Arch.S. from MIT and is a Senior Lecturer at the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning in Israel. Her research was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Getty/UCLA program, the Israel Science Foundation , and currently by the Frankel Center at the University of Michigan. She lectures and publishes widely on post–1967 Jerusalem, as well as on historiography, preservation, national identity and globalization in Israel and the United States. Her forthcoming book is titled Designing Politics: Architecture and the Making of “United Jerusalem.” panayiota i. pyla is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...