Architectural Culture In British Mandate Jerusalem 1917 1948

Author : Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1474457509

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Architectural Culture in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948 by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler Pdf

An architectural history of four prominent buildings in Jerusalem. Includes new research on public and civic architecture of Mandate Palestine. Focuses on four case studies: the Muslim Palestinian Palace Hotel, the Jewish-Zionist Zionist Executive Buildings, the British Palestine Archaeological Museum and the American Jerusalem YMCA Building. Reveals the major role that architecture and architectural culture had in constructing communal and national identities in Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine. Increases our understanding of the interaction between cultural forces in the Middle East and the emergence of 20th-century architectural culture in Israel/Palestine. Makes a significant contribution to research into the built environments of mixed cities, contested spaces and cities under foreign rule. Deepens our understanding of present spatial dilemmas and their context within the Israeli-Palestinian conflic. Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.

Author : Ada Karmi-Melamed,Dan Price,Muzeon Yisrael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9652784230

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Architecture in Palestine During the British Mandate, 1917-1948 by Ada Karmi-Melamed,Dan Price,Muzeon Yisrael Pdf

Author : Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452954578

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Seizing Jerusalem by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan Pdf

After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Seizing Jerusalem chronicles how numerous disciplines, including architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, as well as everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, from Israeli-born architects to international luminaries such as Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Zevi, competed to create Jerusalem’s new image. This decade-long competition happened with the Palestinian residents still living in the city, even as the new image was inspired by the city’s Arab legacy. The politics of space in the Holy City, still contested today, were shaped in this post-1967 decade not only by the legacy of the war and the politics of dispossession, but curiously also by emerging trends in postwar architectural culture. Drawing on previously unexamined archival documents and in-depth interviews with architects, planners, and politicians, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan analyzes the cultural politics of the Israeli state and, in particular, of Jerusalem’s influential mayor, Teddy Kollek, whose efforts to legitimate Israeli rule over Jerusalem provided architects a unique, real-world laboratory to explore the possibilities and limits of modernist design—as built form as well as political and social action. Seizing Jerusalem reveals architecture as an active agent in the formation of urban and national identity, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about Zionism, and the crisis within the discipline of architecture over postwar modernism, affected Jerusalem’s built environment in ways that continue to resonate today.

Author : Noah Hysler-Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317796497

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Patrick Geddes and Town Planning by Noah Hysler-Rubin Pdf

Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans. Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism, the book proposes a more vigorous historiography, exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner, this book offers a rounded, full-length analysis of Geddes' vision and its material manifestation, functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory.

Author : Daphna Sharfman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003833789

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Jerusalem in the Second World War by Daphna Sharfman Pdf

This book is the first to present the unique story of the city of Jerusalem during the events of the Second World War and how it played a unique role in both the military and civilian aspects of the war. Whilst Jerusalem is usually known for topics such as religion, archaeology, or the politics of the Israeli–Arab conflict, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of this exceptional and temporary situation in Jerusalem, offering a perspective that is different from the usual political-strategic-military analysis. Although battles were raging in the nearby countries of Syria and Lebanon, and the war in Egypt and the Western Desert, the people who came to Jerusalem, as well as those who lived there, had different agendas and perspectives. Some were spies and intelligence officers, other were exiles or refugee immigrants from Europe who managed at the last moment to escape Nazi persecution. Journalists and writers described life in the city at this time. All were probably conscious of the fact that when the war came to an end, local rivalry and mounting conflict would take the centre stage again. This was a time of a special, magical drawn-out moment that may shed light on an alternative, more peaceful, kind of Jerusalem that unfortunately was not to be. This volume seeks to find an alternative approach and to contribute to the development of insightful research into life in an unordinary city in an unordinary situation. It will be of value to those interested in military history and the history of the Middle East.

Author : Jörg Stabenow,Ronny Schüler
Publisher : Gebruder Mann Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3786127816

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Transfer of Modernity by Jörg Stabenow,Ronny Schüler Pdf

"The region of Palestine--today's Israel--presents an especially significant example of the internationalization of modern European architecture from the 1920s through the 1940s. The book examines the boom experienced by architectural modernism in what was then the British Mandate territory, with particular emphasis on the underlying processes of transmission that were at work. Its authors investigate the techniques, structures and individuals who made the transfer of architectural knowledge possible."--4ème de couverture.

Author : Luce Beeckmans,Alessandra Gola,Ashika Singh,Hilde Heynen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462702936

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Making Home(s) in Displacement by Luce Beeckmans,Alessandra Gola,Ashika Singh,Hilde Heynen Pdf

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

Author : G. A. Bremner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780198713326

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Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire by G. A. Bremner Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.

Author : Martha Langford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773550810

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Narratives Unfolding by Martha Langford Pdf

Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written – some for the first time – while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to reclaim or rethink issues of territory and dispossession, home and exile, contributors to this volume demonstrate that the writing of national art histories is a vital project for intergenerational exchange of knowledge and its visual formations. Essays showcase revealing moments of modern and contemporary art history in Canada, Egypt, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, paying particular attention to the agency of institutions such as archives, art galleries, milestone exhibitions, and artist retreats. Old and emergent art cities, including Cairo, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver, are also examined in light of avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism, and migration. Narratives Unfolding is both a survey of current art historical approaches and their connection to the source: art-making and art experience happening somewhere.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192558015

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Empires of Antiquities by Billie Melman Pdf

Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, which the book follows, made antiquity visible, palpable and accessible as never before. The new uses of antiquity and its relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war world order, imperial collaboration and collisions, and national aspirations. Empires of Antiquities uniquely combines a history of the internationalization of a new "regime of archaeology" under the oversight of the League of Nations and its web of institutions, a history of British passions for Near Eastern antiquity, on-the-ground colonial mechanisms and nationalist claims on the past. It points to the centrality of the mandate system, particularly mandates classified A, in Mesopotamia/Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, formerly governed by the Ottoman Empire, and of Egypt, in a new culture of antiquity. Drawing on an unusually wide range of archives in several countries, as well as on visual and material evidence, the book weaves together imperial, international, and local histories of institutions, people, ideas and objects and offers an entirely new interpretation of the history of archaeological discovery and its connections to empires and modernity.

Author : Zvi Efrat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UIUC:30112120024770

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The Object of Zionism by Zvi Efrat Pdf

The Object of Zionism is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early 20th century to the 1960s and '70s. Zvi Efrat scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project, unprecedented in its political and ethical circumstances and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. Efrat explores the construction of the State of Israel in a book that promises to become a standard reference on Israeli architectural history.

Author : Benedict Ranjit Dessa
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798893632637

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Bring Them Home and Nowhere to Go by Benedict Ranjit Dessa Pdf

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi The story of suffering on both sides needs to be told. The aftermath of the devastating attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, plunged the region into a relentless cycle of violence and chaos. The initial assault claimed the lives of approximately 1139 Israelis and foreign nationals, with 764 civilians among the casualties, along with 248 individuals taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Subsequent clashes led to thousands of Palestinian deaths, predominantly women and children, in Gaza, with no distinction made between combatants and civilians. The conflict spilled into the West Bank, with Palestinians suffering from military actions and settler violence. Casualties were reported across Israel, Southern Lebanon, and Syria, demonstrating the widespread impact. As days passed, the conflict showed no signs of resolution, highlighting the complex and far-reaching consequences, leaving an indelible mark on the region.

Author : David Kroyanker
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055891900

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Jerusalem Architecture by David Kroyanker Pdf

One of Israel's leading city planners provides a pictorial and textual survey of the Holy City's architecture. it explores the old City's history and carries the reader through the ages via its architectural Opulance. the city is filled with one-of-a-kind properties which exclude it from definition in terms of traditional urban expression.

Author : Yair Wallach
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503611146

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A City in Fragments by Yair Wallach Pdf

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.

Author : Cyrus Schayegh,Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317497066

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The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates by Cyrus Schayegh,Andrew Arsan Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural histories of the Middle East in the decades between the end of the First World War and the late 1940s, when Britain and France abandoned their Mandates. It also situates the history of the Mandates in their wider imperial, international and global contexts, incorporating them into broader narratives of the interwar decades. In 27 thematically organised chapters, the volume looks at various aspects of the Mandates such as: The impact of the First World War and the development of a new state system The impact of the League of Nations and international governance Differing historical perspectives on the impact of the Mandates system Techniques and practices of government The political, social, economic and cultural experiences of the people living in and connected to the Mandates. This book provides the reader with a guide to both the history of the Middle East Mandates and their complex relation with the broader structures of imperial and international life. It will be a valuable resource for all scholars of this period of Middle Eastern and world history.