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Baghdad arts deco : architectural brickwork, 1920-1950
- Title
- Baghdad arts deco : architectural brickwork, 1920-1950 / Caecilia Pieri.
- Author
- Pieri, Caecilia.
- Publication
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- 144 p. : ill.; 31 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 144).
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQG 16-326
- ISBN
- 9789774163562 (hbk.)
- 9774163567 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 436623264
- Author
- Pieri, Caecilia.
- Title
- Baghdad arts deco : architectural brickwork, 1920-1950 / Caecilia Pieri.
- Imprint
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 144).
- Research Call Number
- JQG 16-326