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9780415776332

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415776332

  • ISBN10:

    0415776333

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-02-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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

Foreword Jean-Louis Cohen 1. Pride and Prejudice: The Historiography of Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean Part 1: NORTH 2. From Hoffmann to le Corbusier: Modern Architecture and the Myth of the Mediterranean 3. Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular 4. The Vernacular Discourse in Vienna 5. The Anti-Mediterranean in the literature of architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg's "Kulturarbeiten" 6. A "Seaside Bauhaus": Wijdeveld, Mendelsohn, Ozenfant, and the Project of the European Mediterranean Academy, 1931-1934 7. Migration in Post-War Architecture: Shared Stories on the Architecture of Dwelling in North Africa Part 2: SOUTH 8. The Primitive and the Vernacular in Italian Modernism 9. Sert, de la Sota, Coderch: Rural Poetics and Modernity in Spain (1925-65) 10. Bruno Taut and the Last Melancholy of the "Other World" 11. The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context, and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad Eldem 12. Aris Konstantinidis and "The Old Athenian Houses"

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