Baghdad Arts Deco

Released on by Caecilia Pieri
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  • Baghdad Arts Deco Book Detail

  • Author : Caecilia Pieri
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9789774163562
  • File Size : 56,56 MB
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Baghdad Arts Deco by Caecilia Pieri PDF Summary

Book Description: An homage to the modern architectural landscape of Iraq. Despite dictatorship, international sanctions, and the ravages of war, Baghdad endures with a surprisingly exceptional modern architectural heritage. This beautifully illustrated study reveals the splendors of early twentieth-century architecture that still stand on the streets of Iraq's capital. From 1920 to 1950, in the process of nation-building, Baghdad was transformed into a true city built of brick, one that became the harbinger of the Arab architectural renaissance, its local traditions reinterpreted and adapted into a modern vernacular style. Caecilia Pieri's documentation foregrounds the physical reality of modern Baghdad, very different from the image that we normally receive from the media. She draws on a number of unpublished sources and documents, to present Baghdad's architecture in a historical perspective, and her striking photographs taken between 2003 and 2006 document the residential areas of the twentieth-century city, providing an unprecedented resource for historians, urban planners, and general readers interested in discovering a new face of a world capital. With essays by Rifat Chadirji, Ihsan Fethi, and Naïm Kattan.

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