Casablanca: Colonial Myths and Architectural Ventures

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ISBN
9781580930871
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Monacelli Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1580930875
ISBN-13
9781580930871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1874091

Product Key Features

Book Title
Casablanca : Sketches from an Urban Adventure
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Criticism, History / General
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Author
Monique Eleb, Jean-Louis Cohen
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
87.2 Oz
Item Length
10.6 in
Item Width
9.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-022576
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
720/.964/3
Synopsis
Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban spaces, houses, and gardens. It unquestionably ranks among the most significant urban creations of the twentieth century, attracting remarkable teams of architects and planners. Their commissions came from clients who were interested in innovation and modernization., Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban structures and features. Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port city well before the introduction of the French in 1907, it unquestionably ranks among the most significant urban creations of the twentieth century, attracting remarkable teams of architects and planners. Their commissions came from clients who were interested in innovation and modernization, thereby fostering the emergence of Casablanca as a laboratory for legislative, technological, and visual experimentation. Having studied the city for ten years, Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb trace, from the late nineteenth century to the early 1960s, the rebirth of a once-forgotten port and its metamorphosis into a teeming metropolis that is an amalgam of Mediterranean culture from Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, and Italy. The extensive presentation of the significant buildings of this hybrid city -- where, alongside the French, Muslim and Jewish Moroccan patrons commissioned provocative buildings -- is drawn from French and Moroccan archives, including hundreds of previously unpublished photographs. Cohen and Eleb focus as much on Casablanca's diverse social fabric as its urban spaces, chronicling the clients, inhabitants, and inventive architects who comprise the human component of an essential yet overlooked episode of modernism.
LC Classification Number
NA1590.2.C37C6513

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