Designing modernity : architecture in the Arab world, 1945-1973

\"Ten case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the relevant cultural-historical, sociopolitical, climatic, and demographic aspects. Questions concerning the region's reciprocal relationship with modernist architecture in the period from 1945 to 1973 are investigated through the biographies of selected buildings and building complexes from Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco. Texts, contemporary images, architectural drawings, and archival material are used to document the process from commissioning and design through to completion and building use\"-- Publisher's description.