Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

by Lejeune; Jean-francois

• ISBN13: 9780415776349
• ISBN10: 0415776341
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Chapters by an international cast of scholars adopting a number of different methodological perspectives are subdivided into two sections: the first discusses architects who lived and worked in Mediterranean Countries and examines how they and their designs negotiated complex identity politics with a multiple and multilateral vision of modernity. The second part maps the contributions of architects of non-Mediterranean countries who traveled and occasionally practiced in the Mediterranean region. This group includes Erik Gunnar Asplund, Erich Mendelsohn, Bernard Rudofsky, Bruno Taut, Aldo Van Eyck, and Paul Schulze-Naumburg.

Author Biography

Jean-Franois Lejeune is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and History at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Michelangelo Sabatino is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
North versus South	p. 1
Introduction
South	p. 13
From Schinkel to Le Corbusier	p. 15
The Myth of the Mediterranean in Modern Architecture
The Politics of Mediterraneità in Italian Modernist Architecture	p. 41
The Modern and the Mediterranean in Spain: Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo	p. 65
Mediterranean Dialogues: Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet	p. 95
Nature and the People: The Vernacular and the Search for a True Greek Architecture	p. 111
The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad Eldem	p. 131
North	p. 147
The Anti-Mediterranean in the Literature of Modern Architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg's Kulturarbeiten	p. 149
Erich Mendelsohn's Mediterranean Longings: The European Mediterranean Academy and Beyond in Palestine	p. 175
Bruno Taut's Translations Out of Germany: Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture	p. 193
Mediterranean Resonances in the Work of Erik Gunnar Asplund: Tradition, Color, and Surface	p. 213
Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular	p. 231
Ciam, Team X, and the Rediscovery of African Settlements: Between Dogon and Bidonville	p. 251
Index	p. 265
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