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Until the early 1990s the southern and eastern towns of Yemen were extremely difficult to reach. The result of nearly two decades of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of the region. The author's first-hand research provides detailed insights into building techniques and methods that, though still(...)
The architecture of Yemen: from Yafi to Hadramut
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Until the early 1990s the southern and eastern towns of Yemen were extremely difficult to reach. The result of nearly two decades of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of the region. The author's first-hand research provides detailed insights into building techniques and methods that, though still practised, are little known outside the area.
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After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world's most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem.(...)
Seizing Jerusalem: the architectures of unilateral unification
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After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world's most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Seizing Jerusalem, the first architectural history of "united Jerusalem," chronicles how numerous disciplines, including architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, as well as everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, from Israeli-born architects to international luminaries such as Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Zevi, competed to create Jerusalem's new image. This decade-long competition happened with the Palestinian residents still living in the city, even as the new image was inspired by the city's Arab legacy. The politics of space in the Holy City, still contested today, were shaped in this post-1967 decade not only by the legacy of the war and the politics of dispossession, but curiously also by emerging trends in postwar architectural culture.Drawing on previously unexamined archival documents and in-depth interviews with architects, planners, and politicians, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan analyzes the cultural politics of the Israeli state and, in particular, of Jerusalem's influential mayor, Teddy Kollek, whose efforts to legitimate Israeli rule over Jerusalem provided architects a unique, real-world laboratory to explore the possibilities and limits of modernist design--as built form as well as political and social action. Seizing Jerusalem reveals architecture as an active agent in the formation of urban and national identity, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about Zionism, and the crisis within the discipline of architecture over postwar modernism, affected Jerusalem's built environment in ways that continue to resonate today.
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A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, this essay uncovers the ramifying layers of one great city's buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
Till we have built Jerusalem: architects of a new city
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A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, this essay uncovers the ramifying layers of one great city's buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
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"Chandigarh rethink" captures the rich, ongoing discourse on radically transforming urbanities within the Global South with specific reference to India's social, historical, economic and cultural repositioning. It examines urban edge 'figures' and their rural 'grounds', relevant not just to Chandigarh, but also to cities in general, while suggesting narrative strategies(...)
Chandigarh rethink: transforming ruralities & edeg(ness) in global urbanities
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"Chandigarh rethink" captures the rich, ongoing discourse on radically transforming urbanities within the Global South with specific reference to India's social, historical, economic and cultural repositioning. It examines urban edge 'figures' and their rural 'grounds', relevant not just to Chandigarh, but also to cities in general, while suggesting narrative strategies via provocative design studio design work. These introspections are framed within themed contributions from a globally recognized group of scholars who represent the diverse disciplines of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape ecologies and the humanities. As a topical publication on global urbanities transforming a 'signature' urban project, "Chandigarh rethink" anticipates the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures (blc) program and SARUP's efforts to uniquely aligning urban research, pedagogy and critical design practice towards examining global urbanities that continue to defy normative urban analysis. Beyond serving as an exemplar for globally aware architectural schools nationwide and beyond, it is also directed to serve as an instructive primer for design students and instructors examining global urban sites.
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Compiled by Mexico City–based architects Miquel Adrià and Andrea Griborio, this volume features projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, offering a panoramic view of some of the freshest work in contemporary Latin American architecture.
Radical: 50 Latin American Architectures
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Compiled by Mexico City–based architects Miquel Adrià and Andrea Griborio, this volume features projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, offering a panoramic view of some of the freshest work in contemporary Latin American architecture.
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Entre le début de l'exploitation des ressources pétrolières (fin des années 1940) et l'invasion du pays par l'armée irakienne (fin des années 1980 ) en passant par l'indépendance (1961), le Koweït a connu de profondes transformations qui se reflètent dans le patrimoine bâti. L'autonomie politique et l'élévation du niveau de vie ont eu pour conséquence une modification(...)
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Modern architecture Kuwait, 1949-1989
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Entre le début de l'exploitation des ressources pétrolières (fin des années 1940) et l'invasion du pays par l'armée irakienne (fin des années 1980 ) en passant par l'indépendance (1961), le Koweït a connu de profondes transformations qui se reflètent dans le patrimoine bâti. L'autonomie politique et l'élévation du niveau de vie ont eu pour conséquence une modification radicale de la ville historique située sur la côte du golfe Persique. Les grands projets d'architecture et d'urbanisme lancés durant ces quatre décennies ont fourni à de grands architectes locaux et internationaux l'occasion de construire une ville nouvelle, de sorte que Koweït City présente aujourd'hui de nombreux exemples de l'architecture moderne classique. Résultat de plusieurs années de recherches interdisciplinaires, le présent ouvrage répertorie plus de cent cinquante bâtiments présentés avec des textes et des photos permettant de saisir la dynamique de changement qu'ils incarnent. Ces bâtiments reflètent une typologie et des styles très variés, mettent en évidence les différents moyens de s'adapter aux conditions climatiques locales et sont systématiquement présentés dans leur contexte urbanistique.
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In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a centre for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to(...)
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The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai
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In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a centre for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnographic sources, Hancock grapples with the question of how people in Chennai remember and represent their past, considering the political and economic contexts and implications of those memory practices. Working from specific sites, including a historic district created around an ancient Hindu temple, a living history museum, neo-traditional and vernacular architecture, and political memorials, Hancock examines the spatialization of memory under the conditions of neo-liberalism.
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This publication is part of the projet These Ruins You See, it includes the project's research, realization, and a series of specially commissioned essays. This project has manifested in different exhibitions, publications, and lectures. These Ruins You See was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil from November 8, 2006 to February 28, 2007.
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These ruins you see
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This publication is part of the projet These Ruins You See, it includes the project's research, realization, and a series of specially commissioned essays. This project has manifested in different exhibitions, publications, and lectures. These Ruins You See was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil from November 8, 2006 to February 28, 2007.
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South Korea in the last decades has experienced an unprecedented series of transformations at all levels in society: in the economics, in the culture, and in the politics. More specifically its capital Seoul has become one of the densest urban zones in the world. After a long period of dictatorship and along with an extraordinary process of economic development that(...)
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Seoulscape: towards a new urbanity in Korea
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South Korea in the last decades has experienced an unprecedented series of transformations at all levels in society: in the economics, in the culture, and in the politics. More specifically its capital Seoul has become one of the densest urban zones in the world. After a long period of dictatorship and along with an extraordinary process of economic development that characterized the last years, South Korea opened up to experimentation in all major arts, not least architecture. And architecture is at the center of the exhibition curated by Francisco Sanin, which presents an overview on the research which revolves around that emerging yet configured urban lanscape that constitute this unique city and is continuously engulfing the entire population of the South Korean peninsula.
Villes d'Afrique
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Collection de contributions internationales sur les différentes pistes qu'offre l'histoire des villes en Afrique, le présent recueil déborde, à partir d'un centre d'intérêt qui a pour cadre l'Afrique centrale, sur d'autres régions du continent: Douala au Cameroun, la côte des Esclaves, Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso, la côte du Tanganyika, la ville sud-africaine de Pietermaritzburg.
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Villes d'Afrique
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Collection de contributions internationales sur les différentes pistes qu'offre l'histoire des villes en Afrique, le présent recueil déborde, à partir d'un centre d'intérêt qui a pour cadre l'Afrique centrale, sur d'autres régions du continent: Douala au Cameroun, la côte des Esclaves, Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso, la côte du Tanganyika, la ville sud-africaine de Pietermaritzburg.