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

$41.10

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

Name: Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973 - Paperback
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SKU: 9783868597233
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by George Arbid (Editor), Philipp Oswalt (Editor)

(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.

Author Biography

Philipp Oswalt has been Professor of Architectural Theory and
Design at the University of Kassel since 2006. From 1988 to 1994, he was editor
of the architecture magazine ARCH+ and worked for OMA / Rem Koolhaas in
1996/97. From 2009 to 2014, he served as director of the Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation.
George Arbid is an
architect with successive teaching positions at the Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts, the American University of Beirut, and the Lebanese University. He
is the co-founder and director of the Arab Center for Architecture and has
served on several competition and award juries.

Number of Pages: 304

Dimensions: 1.02 x 8.27 x 10.94 IN

Publication Date: July 14, 2022

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