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The Subversive Utopia
Louis Kahn & the Question of the National Jewish Style in Jerusalem
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Pub Date
Nov 01 2015
| Archive Date
Nov 02 2015
Description
This book examines the critical role of modern architects in shaping and transforming national Israeli memory with special regard to Jerusalem. Using as a background the attempts of various architects since the 19th century to construct a national Jewish style, the author focuses his analysis on Louis Kahn's design of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. This study scrutinizes and pieces together discrepant archival documents, drawings, and accounts of intentions, interpretations, events, policies, and projects in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The book reveals an unrecognized crucial interplay of Kahn's Hurvah design with the competing traditional and national symbols of Jerusalem.
This book examines the critical role of modern architects in shaping and transforming national Israeli memory with special regard to Jerusalem. Using as a background the attempts of various...
Description
This book examines the critical role of modern architects in shaping and transforming national Israeli memory with special regard to Jerusalem. Using as a background the attempts of various architects since the 19th century to construct a national Jewish style, the author focuses his analysis on Louis Kahn's design of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. This study scrutinizes and pieces together discrepant archival documents, drawings, and accounts of intentions, interpretations, events, policies, and projects in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The book reveals an unrecognized crucial interplay of Kahn's Hurvah design with the competing traditional and national symbols of Jerusalem.
Advance Praise
“An invaluable, balanced and thoughtful account of one of the
great ‹lost› monuments of twentieth century architecture - of
its many implications and its consequences.”
- Joseph Rykwert
“Yasir Sakr’s dissertation constitutes a valuable contribution to
both understanding the role of metaphor in Architectural theory
and the exposition of the problems arising at the intersection
between “Avant-guard” Zionism and traditional Judaism.
Sakr’s work is technically well structured and literarily well
written. The philosophical perplexity resulting from the whole
enterprise is very well delineated. Very favorable evaluation.”
- Paul Ricoeur
“An invaluable, balanced and thoughtful account of one of the
great ‹lost› monuments of twentieth century architecture - of
its many implications and its consequences.”
- Joseph Rykwert
“Yasir Sakr’s...
Advance Praise
“An invaluable, balanced and thoughtful account of one of the
great ‹lost› monuments of twentieth century architecture - of
its many implications and its consequences.”
- Joseph Rykwert
“Yasir Sakr’s dissertation constitutes a valuable contribution to
both understanding the role of metaphor in Architectural theory
and the exposition of the problems arising at the intersection
between “Avant-guard” Zionism and traditional Judaism.
Sakr’s work is technically well structured and literarily well
written. The philosophical perplexity resulting from the whole
enterprise is very well delineated. Very favorable evaluation.”
- Paul Ricoeur
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781933455143 |
| PRICE |
$19.95 (USD)
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781933455143 |
| PRICE |
$19.95 (USD)
|
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