Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9780367741969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str.

Roberto Fabbri; Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Opis

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. Contextually, with an eye on the present, the book reflects on the initiatives that recently re-engaged with the once ville moderne which, meanwhile, lost its pivotal function and meaning.

A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced during the modernization era has the potential to narrate the social growth, East–West dynamics, and citizens’ memories of the recent past. Reading obsolescence as an opportunity, the book looks into this topic from a cross-country perspective. It maps, reads and analyses the notion of modern heritage in relation to the contemporary city and looks beyond physical transformations to embrace cultural practices and strategies of urban re-appropriation. It interrogates the value of modern architecture in the non-West, examining how academic research is expanding the debate on Gulf urbanism, and describes how practices of reuse could foster rethinking neglected areas, also addressing land consumption in the GCC.

Presenting a diverse and geographically inclusive authorship, which combines established and up-and-coming researchers in the field, this is an important reference for academics and upper-level students interested in heritage studies, post-colonial urbanism, and architecture in the non-West.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Spis treści

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