Description
Docomomo Journal 35 (September 2006)
Modern Architecture in the Middle East (106 p.)
(guest editors: Elvan Altan Ergut & Belgin Turan Özkaya)
Contributions:
Making Modernism Modern, The Failure of Rehabilitation: The Thermal Bath Complex of Sidi Harazem by Zevaco by Aziza Chaouni
The Last Surviving Solarium, Jamnagar, India (1936): A Modern Example of Technological Significance by Miki Desai
Schwarze Pumpe: A 1950s Power Station in Germany by Lars Scharnholz
Architecture in Cyprus Between the 1930s and 1970s: The Search of Modern Heritage by Stefanos Fereos & Petros Phokaides
Oltarzhevsky and the Soviet Skyscraper by Stephen J. Kelley
Modern Architecture in the Middle East:
Introduction: Modern Architecture in the Middle East, Beyond Tradition and Development by Elvan Altan Ergut & Belgin Turan Özkaya
Mediating and Domesticating Modernity in Egypt: Uncovering Some Forgotten Pages by Mercedes Volait
The (Inter)National of an Uneven Modernity: Architectural Politics in Pahlavi Iran by Talinn Grigor
Preying for the Villa Namazi: The Unfortunate Encounter between a Modern Jewel and the Contemporary Metropolis by Nader Tehrani
Richard Kauffmann: Between Architectural and National Modernisms by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch & Tal Alon-Mozes
Building, Constructing and Exhibiting in Turkey: The Republican Public Works Exhibition by M. Haluk Zelef
A Lost Icon of Turkish Modernism: Expo’58 Pavilion in Brussels by Sibel Bozdoğan
Rebuilding Iraq 1955–58: Modernist Housing, National Aspirations, and Global Ambitions by Panayiota Pyla
Bauhaus in Baghdad: Walter Gropius Master Project for Baghdad University by Mina Marefat
Lithic Modernity: Jordan’s Architectural Legacy by Nabil Abu-Dayyeh & Ali Abu-Ghanimeh
Danger Alert on Lebanese Modern Architecture by Habib Sayah
Book Reviews:
Van Nelle: Monument in Progress by Theodore Prudon
Modernism: Designing a New World by Dennis Sharp
Tribute:
Harry Seidler (1923–2006) by Dennis Sharp
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