Urban modernity in the contemporary Gulf obsolescence and opportunities
Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book explores the display of transnational architectural practices resulting in differ...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge
2022.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009624639106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PREFACE: Forms of Engagement: Architectural Modernism and Heritage in the Arab Gulf States
- INTRODUCTION: Re-engaging the Modern
- PART I: RETRACING MODERNITIES
- UDO KULTERMANN’S HISTORY OF ARAB CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
- GARDENS AND GENERATORS: Demarcating Dubai’s Modernization
- FRAGMENTARIUM: Episodes of Modernity in the Contemporary Kuwait City
- INDUSTRIAL PROMISES: Speculative Thinking for Sharjah’s Industrial Districts
- PART II: TRAJECTORIES OF GLOBAL PRACTICES
- BUILDING IDENTITY: Transnational Exchange and the Authorship of Modern Gulf Heritage
- CHANGING FACADES IN GULF CITIES: Identity, Icons, and Lamentations of Loss
- THE CORNICHE: The Representation of Doha’s Waterfront and its Institutional Buildings
- OPERATIONAL PLANNING: An Alternative View of Doxiadis’ Project in Riyadh
- HISTORY, MEMORY, AND NARRATIVES OF THE PAST AND FUTURE: The New Souks in Kuwait
- PART III: HERITAGE AND THE MODERN
- INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES OF CULTURE: Modern Heritage Practices in Kuwait
- A[N] ABSENT SPACE: 1355
- MODERNISM IN QATAR: Survival through Reuse
- URBAN PORTRAITS: Preserving the Memory of Modern Architectural Heritage in the United Arab Emirates
- CONCLUSIONS: Modernism’s Back and Forth
- INDEX.
