Modernism and Nation-Building
Subtitle: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780295981109
Subjects: 20th Century Architecture; Architecture; History - Specific Styles; International Architecture - Middle Eastern; Reference works; Social history; History - General; Middle East - General; 1918-1960; 20th century; History; Nationalism and architecture; Turkey
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."