Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Modernity & National Identity) (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)

by SandyIsenstadt (Author), KishwarRizvi (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $44.13

  Focuses on the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, post-war Turkey, and on to Iraq, this title looks around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's materials, methods, and motives.