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Title Mid-century modernism in Turkey : architecture across cultures in the 1950s and 1960s / edited by Meltem Ö. Gürel
Published London : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Series Routledge research in architecture
Routledge research in architecture
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Turkey's postwar modernism: a retrospective overview of architecture, urbanism, and politics in the 1950s; 3. Seashore readings: the road from sea baths to summerhouses in mid-twentieth century Izmir; 4. Urbanization represented in the historical peninsula: Turkification of Istanbul in the 1950s; 5. Exhibiting American domestic modernity at the Izmir International Fair
6. Under the flags of the Marshall Plan: multiple modernisms and professional legitimacy in the Cold War Middle East, 1950-19647. The Istanbul Hilton, 1951-2014: modernity and its demise; 8. Architecture as advertising: the Istanbul Reklam Building; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 23, 2015)
Subject Modern movement (Architecture) -- Turkey
Architecture and society -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture and society.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Turkey.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Gürel, Meltem Ö, editor
ISBN 9781317616375
1317616375