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Baghdad Arts Deco - Architectural Brickwork 1920-1950 (Hardcover)
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Baghdad Arts Deco - Architectural Brickwork 1920-1950 (Hardcover)
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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unpublished sources and documents, to present Baghdad's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 Naim Kattan.
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