Designing Modernity

Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2022

Designing Modernity

Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973

Edited by: George Arbid and Philipp Oswalt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598308

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Bilingual edition (English/Arabic) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (englisch/arabisch)

Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world. Ten case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the relevant cultural-historical, sociopolitical, climatic and demographic aspects. Questions concerning the region’s reciprocal relationship with modernist architecture in the period from 1945 to 1973 are investigated through the biographies of selected buildings and building complexes from Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. Texts, contemporary images, architectural drawings and archival material are used to document the process from commissioning and design through to completion and building use.

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Philipp Oswalt has been Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the University of Kassel since 2006. From 1988 to 1994, he was editor of the architecture magazine ARCH+ and worked for OMA / Rem Koolhaas in 1996/97. From 2009 to 2014, he served as director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

George Arbid is an architect with successive teaching positions at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, the American University of Beirut, and the Lebanese University. He is the co-founder and director of the Arab Center for Architecture and has served on several competition and award juries.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
PREFACE. Acquiring and Producing (New) Knowledge. Reflection through Relation and Understanding Mona Kriegler Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction. Designing Modernity George Arbid and Phillip Oswalt Open Access Download PDF	11
Authors Open Access Download PDF	14
Morocco
Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex, 1959–1975 Architect: Jean-François Zevaco. A Post-Independence Icon Aziza Chaouni Open Access Download PDF	16
Egypt
Garden Suburbs, Cairo 1940s–1950s Architect: Mahmoud Riad. Early Experiments with Subsidized Housing Mercedes Volait Open Access Download PDF	48
New Gourna Village, 1942–1952 Architect: Hassan Fathy. A Vision of Self-Building Leïla el-Wakil Open Access Download PDF	70
Nasr City Housing Model 33, Cairo 1959–1960 Architect: Sayed Karim. Raising the Middle Class Mohamed Elshahed Open Access Download PDF	94
Lebanon
Electricité du Liban Headquarters, Beirut 1964–1971 Architect: CETA (Aractingi, Neema, Conan and Nassar). Hope on the Horizon George Arbid Open Access Download PDF	116
Kuwait
National Museum, Kuwait City 1960–1983 Architect: Michel Ecochard. Cultural Nation Building Sara Saragoça Open Access Download PDF	142
Palestine
Al Mashrou', Jericho 1949–1967 Architect/ Initiator: Musa Alami/ Arab Development Society. The Farm as Utopian Pedagogy Pelin Tan and Dima Yaser Open Access Download PDF	170
Iraq
Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad 1965–1971 Architect: kahtan Awni. Architecture as Urbanism Amin Alsaden Open Access Download PDF	196
Syria
Damascus International Fair and its Monument, 1950s–1960s Architects: Nizar Al-Farra et al. A Modern Public City Space Rafee Hakky and Wael Samhouri Open Access Download PDF	226
Jordan
Al-Hussein Youth City, Amman 1962–1968 Architect: Munce and Kennedy. Sports and Culture for a New Nation Janset Shawash Open Access Download PDF	252

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Languages: English, Arabic
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag GmbH
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- Main content: 288
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- Illustrations: 40
- Coloured Illustrations: 80
Keywords: Architecture; Arab World; Modernity

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Published: July 5, 2022
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Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783868597233

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Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973