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Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities/

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities/ Editors: Fabbri, Roberto; Al Qassemi, Sultan Sooud AlQasimi. - Oxon; New York Oxon; Routledge 2022 - 280p; 24x16cm

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 different notions of locality, cosmopolitanism, and modernity. Texts: Kishwar Rizvi, Mohamed Elshahed, Todd Reisz, Roberto Fabbri, Jason Carlow, Michael Kubo, Kevin Mitchell, Jumanah Abbas, Faisal bin Ayyaf Al-Mogren, Edward Nilsson, Asseel Al-Ragam, Suha Hassan, Trinidad Rico, Marco Sosa, Lina Ahmed, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi


English

9780367741921

2021016546


NA100-130 Architecture and the State


UAE

NA2543.S6 U74 2022

720.1/03

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