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.

Summary:

"The Arab world's modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on previously overlooked figures, narratives, and experiences. Projects from North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Gulf show critical moments of postcolonial nation-building. The travel of ideas and figures from within and outside the architectural profession - including craftspeople, bureaucrats, and residents - demonstrates the multifaceted international and regional exchanges underpinning architectural creations and imaginaries in the wake of independence."-- Back cover.

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 323565
Call No.: 323565
Copy: 1
Status: Available