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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities


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Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Table of Contents:
Preface Barry Bergdoll Introduction: North vs South Jean-François Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino Part 1: South 1. From Schinkel to Le Corbusier: The Myth of the Mediterranean in Modern Architecture Benedetto Gravagnuolo 2. The Politics of Mediterraneità in Italian Modernist Architecture Michelangelo Sabatino 3. Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo: The Modern, the Vernacular and the Mediterranean in Spain Jean-François Lejeune 4. Mediterranean Dialogues: Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet Sheila Crane 5. Nature and the People: The Vernacular and The Search for a "True" Greek Architecture Ioanna Theocaropoulou 6. The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context, and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad Eldem Sibel Bozdogan Part 2: North 7. The Anti-Mediterranean in the Literature of Architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg’s "Kulturarbeiten" Kai K. Gutschow 8. Erich Mendelsohn’s Mediterranean Longings: The European Mediterranean Academy and Beyond Ita Heinze-Greenberg 9. Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations Out of Germany Esra Akcan 10. Tradition, Color and Surface: Mediterranean Resonances in the Work of Erik Gunnar Asplund Francis E. Lyn 11. Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular Andrea Bocco-Guarneri 12. Between Dogon and Bidonville: CIAM, Team X and the Rediscovery of African Settlements Tom Avermaete

About the Author :
University of Miami, USA University of Houston, USA

Review :
"This collection of essays is a significant step towards establishing a wider picture of modernist architecture, opening up new ideas and unexplored regions. It is an important basis for future research, and also a valuable textbook for university courses." – Antonello Alici, European Architectural History Network Newsletter


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415776332
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415776333
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities
  • Width: 174 mm


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