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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities
Author(s): Jean-Francois Lejeune (Editor), Michelangelo Sabatino
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: February 3, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415776341
- ISBN-13: 9780415776349
Book Description
Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism – an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This collection of essays is a significant step towards establishing a wider picture of modernist architecture, opening up new ideas and unexplored regions. It is an important basis for future research, and also a valuable textbook for university courses.” – Antonello Alici, European Architectural History Network Newsletter
About the Author
Jean-François Lejeune is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and History at the University of Miami School of Architecture, US.
Michelangelo Sabatino is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, US.
