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Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948-1978 /
This collection discusses the innovative and experimental architecture of Israel during its first three decades following the nation's establishment in 1948. The volume highlights new perspectives on the topic, discussing the inception, modernisation and habitation of historic and lesser-resear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect Books,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Acknowlodgements; Contents; Introduction; Section I: Modern Experiments in Rural and Urban Design; The Experimental Integrative Habitation Unit as a Modern Experimental Lab in Israel; From A-Locality to Locality: The Gur Neighbourhood in Hatzor HaGlilit; Both City and Village: The West Bank 'Communal Settlement' as an Architecture and Planning Lab; Landscape Modernism and the Kibbutz: The Work of Shmuel Bickels (1909-1975); Section II: Public Architecture as a Testing Ground; A Museum in Between: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1965
- Genia Averbuch: Modernism Meets the Vernacular
- Youth Villages for New Immigrants, 1948-1955The Modern Israeli Synagogue as an Experiment in Jewish Tradition; Israeli Architecture at a Turning Point: Designs for the Israeli Center for Technological Awareness, 1978; Section III: Considering Climate; Minus 400 and Over 40 Degrees: Architecture in the Dead Sea, 1948-1971; Architectonic Experimentation in Early Israeli Architecture Vis-à-Vis Climatic Constraints: The Case of the Negev Desert; The Other Side of Climate: The Unscientific Nature of Climatic Architectural Design in Israel
- Section IV: Reflections AbroadBuilding and Re-Building a Nation's Identity: Israeli and Italian Architectural Culture, Their Representation and the Role of Bruno Zevi (1918-2000); Prefabricating Nativism: The Design of the Israeli Knesset, 1956-1966, and the Sierra Leone Parliament, 1960-1964; Conclusion; Author Biographies; Index; Back Cover