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Baghdad Arts Deco - Architectural Brickwork 1920-1950 (Hardcover): Caecilia Pieri

Baghdad Arts Deco - Architectural Brickwork 1920-1950 (Hardcover)

Caecilia Pieri

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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 She draws on a number of unpublished sources and documents, to present Baghdad's architecture in a historical perspective, and her striking photographs taken between 2003 and 2006 document the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.

General

Imprint: The American University In Cairo Press
Country of origin: Egypt
Release date: March 2011
First published: March 2011
Authors: Caecilia Pieri
Dimensions: 310 x 240 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 978-977-416-356-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
LSN: 977-416-356-7
Barcode: 9789774163562

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