Main entry:

Fabbri, Roberto, author.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture Kuwait : 1949-1989 / Fabbri Roberto, Sara Saragoca, Ricardo Camacho.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

Zurich : Niggli, imprint of bnb media GmbH, [2016]

Description:

415 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411).
Atlas: building locator -- Modern architecture Kuwait: the role of the building -- Timeline: a chronological context for architecture in Kuwait -- Specimens : Specimens I: building as infrastructure: 1949-1960 ; Specimens II: building as national identity: 1961-1970 ; Specimens III: building as cityscape: 1971-1979 ; Speicmens IV: building as programme: 1980-1989 -- Biographical notes: designers, planners and builders who shaped Kuwait's environment.
English; soome Arabic.

Summary:

From the late 1940's at the inception of the oil exporting industry, via political independence in 1961, through to the late 1980's when Kuwait was invaded, the city-state experienced an etraordinary social and civic transformation, deeply inscribed in its built environment. The old coasttal town was radically tranformed through architecture and urban planning in the process of gaining wealth and automomy. Important foreign and local architects found here the possibility to expand their professional horizons and the challenge to ompose an entire city, creating important examples of Late Modern Architecture during these four decades. This publication is based on several years of multidisiplinary research, featuring a repertoire of more than 150 buildings, all fully illustrated and analyzed in order to understand the dymanics of change and innovation they represent.

ISBN:

9783721209488 (pbk.)
3721209486 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Kuwait 20th century.
Architecture Koweït 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architektur
Architecture Koweït (Koweït) 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Koweït (Koweït) 20e siècle.
Kuwait

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Saragoça, Sara, 1975- author.
Camacho, Ricardo, 1979- author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292693
Call No.: BIB 237089
Status: Available