Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World
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- ISBN 9781783209286
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking to cases that touch on empire building, modernization, statecraft, and diplomacy, this book examines how these processes have been contingent on a web of expertise informed by a rich and varied array of authors and contexts since the 1800s.
The chapters in this volume, organized around the leitmotif of expertise, demonstrate the thematic importance and specific utility of in-depth and broad-ranging knowledge in shaping the understanding of architecture in the Islamic world from the nineteenth century to the present. Specific case studies include European gardeners in Ottoman courts, Polish architects in Kuwait, Israeli expertise in Iran, monument archiving in India, religious spaces in Swedish suburbs, and more.
This is the latest title in Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East, a series devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning architecture, landscape, and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally.
Peter Christensen is a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he is also an affiliate of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. His work focuses on geopolitical traditions and their connections with environmental issues relating to the borders of Islamic and Christian cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Along with Barry Bergdoll, Christensen was the recipient of the Philip Johnson Book Prize in 2010 from the Society of Architectural Historians. Christensen is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst and the Historians of Islamic Art Association.
