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Modern architecture and the Mediterranean : vernacular dialogues and contested identities / edited by Jean-Francȯis Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino.

Contributor(s): Lejeune, Jean-François | Sabatino, Michelangelo.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: xix, 268 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415776332; 0415776333 ; 9780415776349 ; 0415776341 ; 9780203871904 (ebk); 0203871901 (ebk).Other title: Vernacular dialogues and contested identities [Portion of title].Subject(s): Modern movement (Architecture) | Vernacular architecture -- Mediterranean Region -- InfluenceDDC classification: 720.9
Contents:
North versus south : introduction / Jean-Franȯis Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino -- From Schinkel to Le Corbusier : the myth of the Mediterranean in modern architecture / Benedetto Gravagnuolo -- The politics of Mediterranéit in Italian modernist architecture / Michelangelo Sabatino -- The moden and the Mediterranean in Spain : Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo / Jean-Franȯis Lejeune -- Mediterranean dialogues : Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet / Sheila Crane -- Nature and the people : the vernacular and the search for a true Greek architecture / Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- The legacy of an Istanbul architect : type, context and urban identity in the work of Sedad Eldem / Sibel Bozdogan -- The anti-Mediterranean in the literature of modern architecture : Paul Schultze-Naumburg's Kulturarbeiten / Kai K. Gutschow -- Erich Mendelsohn's Mediterranean longings : the European Mediterranean Academy and beyond in Palestine / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- Bruno Taut's translations out of Germany : toward a cosmopolitan ethics in architecture / Esra Akcan -- Mediterranean resonances in the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund : tradition, color, and surface / Francis E. Lyn -- Bernard Rudofsky and the sublimation of the vernacular / Andrea Bocco Guarneri -- CIAM, Team X, and the rediscovery of African settlements : between Dogon and Bidonville / Tom Avermaete.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

North versus south : introduction / Jean-Franȯis Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino -- From Schinkel to Le Corbusier : the myth of the Mediterranean in modern architecture / Benedetto Gravagnuolo -- The politics of Mediterranéit in Italian modernist architecture / Michelangelo Sabatino -- The moden and the Mediterranean in Spain : Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo / Jean-Franȯis Lejeune -- Mediterranean dialogues : Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet / Sheila Crane -- Nature and the people : the vernacular and the search for a true Greek architecture / Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- The legacy of an Istanbul architect : type, context and urban identity in the work of Sedad Eldem / Sibel Bozdogan -- The anti-Mediterranean in the literature of modern architecture : Paul Schultze-Naumburg's Kulturarbeiten / Kai K. Gutschow -- Erich Mendelsohn's Mediterranean longings : the European Mediterranean Academy and beyond in Palestine / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- Bruno Taut's translations out of Germany : toward a cosmopolitan ethics in architecture / Esra Akcan -- Mediterranean resonances in the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund : tradition, color, and surface / Francis E. Lyn -- Bernard Rudofsky and the sublimation of the vernacular / Andrea Bocco Guarneri -- CIAM, Team X, and the rediscovery of African settlements : between Dogon and Bidonville / Tom Avermaete.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jean-François Lejeune is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and History at the University of Miami School of Architecture, US.

Michelangelo Sabatino is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, US.