ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|134 pages
South
chapter 1|25 pages
From schinkel to le corbusier
The myth of the mediterranean in modern architecture
chapter 3|30 pages
The modern and the mediterranean in spain
Sert, coderch, bohigas, de la sota, del amo
chapter 6|16 pages
The legacy of an istanbul architect
Type, context and urban identity in the work of sedad eldem
part II|118 pages
North
chapter 7|25 pages
The anti-mediterranean in the literature of modern architecture
Paul schultze-naumburg's kulturarbeiten
chapter 8|17 pages
Erich mendelsohn's mediterranean longings
The european mediterranean academy and beyond in palestine
chapter |19 pages
9 Bruno taut's translations out of germany
Toward a cosmopolitan ethics in architecture
chapter 10|17 pages
Mediterranean resonances in the work of erik gunnar asplund
Tradition, color, and surface
chapter 12|14 pages
Ciam, team x, and the rediscovery of african settlements
Between dogon and bidonville