Title & Author:

Arab modern : architecture and the project of independence / Nadi Abusaada, Wesam Al Asali, eds.

Publication:

Zürich : Gta Verlag, [2025]
©2025

Description:

208 pages : illustrations, facsimile, maps, plans, portraits ; 23 cm.

Series:

Gta edition, 2813-2505 ; [4]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword: reframing Arab Modern / George Arbid -- Introduction: Arab Modern, past and present / Nadi Abusaada & Wesam Al Asali -- Part 1: Professionalization and Nation-Building. Navigating theory and practice: Arab architects between revivalism, renewal, and tradition / Nadi Abusaada & Wesam Al Asali -- A river stops running: many Baradas and Michel Écochard / Faysal Tabbarah -- Nation-building by housing: Service de L'Urbanisme in Morocco / Lahbib El Moumni -- Part 2: Regionalism and Traveling Ideas. Architecte de Soleil: Olivier-Clément Cacoub and the nationalist development of the Tunisian leisurescape / Nancy Demerdash -- Moments of architecture nation-building in Sudan: pavilions of and in ruins / Suha Hasan -- Knowledge transference: architectural exchange between Egypt and the Arabian Gulf / Reem Khorshid -- Part 3: Altenative Practices and Imaginaries. 'Injaşa cisterns as vessels of knowledge: how Palestinian tradtional building endures / Danna Masad & Muna Dajani -- Building in solidarity, building with earth: the Jordan Valley solidarity campaign / Faiq Mari -- Tents, poems, and shanties: women between Bayt Al-Shaʻr and ʻAshīsh in the Arabian Desert / Sarah Saad Alajmi -- Annex. Image Credits -- Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9783856764661 paperback
3856764666

Subject:

Architecture Arab countries History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Autonomy.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Autonomie.

Added entries:

Abusaada, Nadi, editor.
Al Asali, Wesam, editor.
Gta (Series) ; 4.

Architecture and the project of independence

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order