Baghdad arts deco : architectural brickwork, 1920-1950 /

Baghdad arts deco : architectural brickwork, 1920-1950 /

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Main Author: Pieri, Caecilia (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English
French

Published: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.

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Architecture > Iraq > Baghdad > History > 20th century.
Building, Brick > Iraq > Baghdad > History > 20th century.
City planning > Iraq > Baghdad > History > 20th century.
Iraq > Baghdad.

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Call Number: NA1468 .B2 P5413 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • Aspects of a modern capital in construction, 1920-1950 / Caecilia Pieri
  • Baghdad, a palimpsest
  • The city between the two empires: 1860-1917
  • Entering the Modern Era : a colonial project : stakes and paradoxes
  • The 1930s : building a country, building a capital
  • The 1940s : the mutation of references
  • Conclusion : from urban planning to national planning
  • Viewpoints / Caecilia Pieri
  • Urban perspectives : the well-regulated city
  • Façades : the smooth and the textured
  • Passages : from the Hosh to the Hull
  • Roofs, terraces, and balconies : suspended vistas
  • The arch and the column : Varia
  • Sculpted detail : a modern calligraphy
  • The secret color
  • Appendix
  • Brief chronology.