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An homage to the modern architectural landscape of Iraq
Architectural Brickwork
ARCHITECTURE History General
Architecture and the Arts
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Baghdad Arts Deco
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Product details
- ISBN 9789774163562
- Weight: 1206g
- Dimensions: 240 x 310mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2011
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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. 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 She draws on a number of unpublished sources and documents to present Baghdad's architecture in a historical perspective, and her striking photographs taken between 2003 and 2006 document the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.
Caecilia Pieri , a senior editor at Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, is a scholar of architecture, urbanism, and cultural heritage. She has a PhD ib History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She has traveled widely in the Middle East for over twenty years.
