Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Hardback)

Jean-Francois Lejeune (editor), Michelangelo Sabatino (editor)

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Hardback 320 Pages / Published: 16/12/2009

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Synopsis

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780415776332
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 748 g
Dimensions: 246 x 174 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"This collection of essays is a significant step towards establishing a wider picture of modernist architecture, opening up new ideas and unexplored regions. It is an important basis for future research, and also a valuable textbook for university courses." - Antonello Alici, European Architectural History Network Newsletter