Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Preface Barry Bergdoll Introduction: North vs South Jean-François Lejeune & Michelangelo Sabatino Part 1:South1. From Schinkel to Le Corbusier: The Myth of the Mediterranean in Modern Architecture Benedetto Gravagnuolo2. The Politics of Mediterraneità in Italian Modernist Architecture Michelangelo Sabatino 3. Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo:The Modern, the Vernacular and the Mediterraneanin SpainJean-François Lejeune 4. Mediterranean Dialogues: Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet Sheila Crane 5. Nature and the People: The Vernacular and The Search for a "True" Greek Architecture Ioanna Theocaropoulou 6. The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context, and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad EldemSibel Bozdogan Part 2: North 7. The Anti-Mediterranean in the literature of architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg’s "Kulturarbeiten" Kai K. Gutschow8. Erich Mendelsohn’s Mediterranean Longings: The European Mediterranean Academy and Beyond Ita Heinze-Greenberg9. Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut’s Translations Out of Germany Esra Akcan 10. Tradition, Color and Surface: Mediterranean Resonances in the Work of Erik Gunnar Asplund Francis E. Lyn 11. Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular Andrea Bocco-Guarneri12. Between Dogon and Bidonville: CIAM, Team X and the Rediscovery of African Settlements Tom Avermaete

Jean-François Lejeune is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and History at the University of Miami School of Architecture, US. Michelangelo Sabatino is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, US.