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

By: Arbid, GeorgeContributor(s): Oswalt, PhilippMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, 2022Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783868598308Genre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Designing ModernityOnline resources: Click to View
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Intro -- Contents -- PREFACE. Acquiring and Producing (New) Knowledge. Reflection through Relation and Understanding -- Introduction. Designing Modernity -- Authors -- Morocco -- Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex, 1959-1975 Architect: Jean-Fran�cois Zevaco. A Post-Independence Icon -- Egypt -- Garden Suburbs, Cairo 1940s-1950s Architect: Mahmoud Riad. Early Experiments with Subsidized Housing -- New Gourna Village, 1942-1952 Architect: Hassan Fathy. A Vision of Self-Building -- Nasr City Housing Model 33, Cairo 1959-1960 Architect: Sayed Karim. Raising the Middle Class -- Lebanon -- Electricit�e du Liban Headquarters, Beirut 1964-1971 Architect: CETA (Aractingi, Neema, Conan and Nassar). Hope on the Horizon -- Kuwait -- National Museum, Kuwait City 1960-1983 Architect: Michel Ecochard. Cultural Nation Building -- Palestine -- Al Mashrou', Jericho 1949-1967 Architect/ Initiator: Musa Alami/ Arab Development Society. The Farm as Utopian Pedagogy -- Iraq -- Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad 1965-1971 Architect: kahtan Awni. Architecture as Urbanism -- Syria -- Damascus International Fair and its Monument, 1950s-1960s Architects: Nizar Al-Farra et al. A Modern Public City Space -- Jordan -- Al-Hussein Youth City, Amman 1962-1968 Architect: Munce and Kennedy. Sports and Culture for a New Nation.
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Intro -- Contents -- PREFACE. Acquiring and Producing (New) Knowledge. Reflection through Relation and Understanding -- Introduction. Designing Modernity -- Authors -- Morocco -- Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex, 1959-1975 Architect: Jean-Fran�cois Zevaco. A Post-Independence Icon -- Egypt -- Garden Suburbs, Cairo 1940s-1950s Architect: Mahmoud Riad. Early Experiments with Subsidized Housing -- New Gourna Village, 1942-1952 Architect: Hassan Fathy. A Vision of Self-Building -- Nasr City Housing Model 33, Cairo 1959-1960 Architect: Sayed Karim. Raising the Middle Class -- Lebanon -- Electricit�e du Liban Headquarters, Beirut 1964-1971 Architect: CETA (Aractingi, Neema, Conan and Nassar). Hope on the Horizon -- Kuwait -- National Museum, Kuwait City 1960-1983 Architect: Michel Ecochard. Cultural Nation Building -- Palestine -- Al Mashrou', Jericho 1949-1967 Architect/ Initiator: Musa Alami/ Arab Development Society. The Farm as Utopian Pedagogy -- Iraq -- Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad 1965-1971 Architect: kahtan Awni. Architecture as Urbanism -- Syria -- Damascus International Fair and its Monument, 1950s-1960s Architects: Nizar Al-Farra et al. A Modern Public City Space -- Jordan -- Al-Hussein Youth City, Amman 1962-1968 Architect: Munce and Kennedy. Sports and Culture for a New Nation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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