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Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture
Sheila Crane
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Description for Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 104 b&w illustrations, 13 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AMC; AMX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 812.
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity.
Drawing together a cast of both world-renowned and less familiar architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban ... Read more
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity.
Drawing together a cast of both world-renowned and less familiar architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy, Mediterranean Crossroads examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653621
SKU
V9780816653621
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About Sheila Crane
Sheila Crane is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture
"In Mediterranean Crossroads, Sheila Crane offers a freshly inventive form of narrative about modern architecture and planning, one that reveals the intertwining of regional and national politics, imperialist/colonialist imaginaries, and popular images of the city." —Nancy Stieber, author of Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920 "Sheila Crane’s book masterfully weaves together episodes that have ... Read more