Casa Mediterranea
Author: Massimo Listri
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sumptuous selection of some sixty beautifully designed houses from around the Mediterranean.
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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
Author: Jean-Francois Lejeune
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1135250278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsidering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Mediterranean Living
Author: Manuela Roth
Publisher: Braun Publish,Csi
Published: 2015-03-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783037681978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowing rural dream residences as well as apartments at the heart of metropolises and ultra-modern villas in the Mediterranean region.
Graphic Horizons
Author: Luis Hermida González
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 3031575830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCasas to Castles
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764334351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes photographs inside and out of over 40 Mediterranean revival homes in Florida, inspired by classic Spanish, Italian, and Moorish designs. Architects include Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, Marion Sims Wyeth, John Volk, James Gamble Rogers II, Richard Kiehnel, John Elliot, and Henry Taylor.
Regionalism and Modernity
Author: Leen Meganck
Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9058679187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complex and shifting relation between regionalism and modernity With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and ‘fitness of purpose', the late 19th and early 20th century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected and even labeled ‘backward'. The origins of this drastic change of perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a positive form gradually turned into a ‘closed' form of regionalism, a folding back on one's own region as a defence mechanism in an economically and politically turbulent decade.
Pride in Modesty
Author: Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011-05-21
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1442667370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Critically Mediterranean
Author: yasser elhariry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3319717642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean informs philosophy, phenomenology, the poetics of time and space, and literary theory. Ranging from some of the earliest twentieth-century material on the Mediterranean to Edmond Amran El Maleh, Christoforos Savva, Orhan Pamuk, and Etel Adnan, the essays ask how modern and contemporary Mediterraneans may be deployed in political, cultural, artistic, and literary practice. The critical Mediterranean that emerges is plural and performative—a medium through which subjects may negotiate imagined relations with the world around them. Vibrant and deeply interdisciplinary, Critically Mediterranean offers timely interventions for a sea in crisis.
Reading and Writing the Mediterranean
Author: Vincenzo Consolo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0802092101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVincenzo Consolo is counted by many critics among the most significant voices in contemporary world literature. This volume makes available for the first in English an edited and annotated volume of Consolo's short stories, essays, and other writings pertaining to the diverse cultures and histories of Sicily and the Mediterranean basin. The Mediterranean region holds a particular fascination for Consolo, who seeks through his writing to recover the memory of a Sicilian and Mediterranean history, which he feels is presently being threatened by the forces of late-capitalist Western culture. His writings about the region also voice a commitment to questions of ethics and human rights, which have been brought to the fore by recent tensions dividing this area and forcing a mass exodus of its people. At a time when this part of the world is under threat from unbridled globalization as well as dangerous forms of ethnic and religious fundamentalism, Consolo's words offer an insightful rethinking of regionalism within a global hierarchy of values. They remind us of the necessity of moderation and contingency, and in so doing, attempt to recover a moral and ethical dimension for our collective life.
The End of Tradition?
Author: Nezar Alsayyad
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1134437110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts. The three chapters in part I explore the inextricable link between 'tradition' and 'modern', revealing the geopolitical implications of this link. Part II looks at tradition as a process of invention and here the three chapters are all concerned with the making of landscapes and landscape myths, showing how the spectacle of history can be aestheticized and naturalized. Finally, Part III shows how traditionis a regime, programmed and policed and how it has been deployed, resisted, and reworked through hegemonic struggles that seek to create both built environments and citizen-subjects.
