Modernism and Nation Building
Subtitle: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780295981529
Subjects: Architecture; Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; 20th century; History; History: World; Turkey; International Architecture - Middle Eastern; History - General; Middle East - General
First sentence: FOR LE CORBUSIER, the making of modern Turkey over the ruins of the Ottoman Empire was just one example of what he saw as the disappearance of balanced, harmonious cultures everywhere with "the arrival of the twentieth century."