Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9780367741921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Roberto Fabbri; Sultan Sooud Al Qassimi

Opis

This book offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. It is an important reference for academics and upper-level students interested in heritage studies, post-colonial urbanism and architecture in the non-West.

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Kishwar Rizvi PREFACE: Forms of Engagement: Architectural Modernism and Heritage in the Arab Gulf States  Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi INTRODUCTION: Re-engaging the Modern  PART I: RETRACING MODERNITIES  Mohamed Elshahed UDO KULTERMANN’S HISTORY OF ARAB CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE Todd Reisz  GARDENS AND GENERATORS: Demarcating Dubai’s Modernization Roberto Fabbri  FRAGMENTARIUM: Episodes of Modernity in the Contemporary Kuwait City Jason Carlow  INDUSTRIAL PROMISES: Speculative Thinking for Sharjah’s Industrial Districts  PART II: TRAJECTORIES OF GLOBAL PRACTICES  Michael Kubo BUILDING IDENTITY: Transnational Exchange and the Authorship of Modern Gulf Heritage  Kevin Mitchell CHANGING FACADES IN GULF CITIES: Identity, Icons, and Lamentations of Loss  Jumanah Abbas THE CORNICHE: The Representation of Doha’s Waterfront and its Institutional Buildings  Faisal Almogren OPERATIONAL PLANNING: An Alternative View of Doxiadis’ Project in Riyadh  Edward Nilsson HISTORY, MEMORY, AND NARRATIVES OF THE PAST AND FUTURE: The New Souks in Kuwait  PART III: HERITAGE AND THE MODERN  Asseel Al-Ragam INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES OF CULTURE: Modern Heritage Practices in Kuwait  Suha Hasan A[N] ABSENT SPACE: 1355  Trinidad Rico MODERNISM IN QATAR: Survival through Reuse  Marco Sosa, Lina Ahmad URBAN PORTRAITS: Preserving the Memory of Modern Architectural Heritage in the United Arab Emirates  Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi CONCLUSIONS: Modernism’s Back and Forth  INDEX