Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
A biographical excavation of one of the world's great, troubled citiesA remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler's Germany who must reckon with a complex new Middle Eastern reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine's chief government architect from 1922 to 1937. Steeped in the tradi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-70978-5
- EAN: 9780374709785
- Produktnummer: 22456976
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'146 KB
- Abbildungen: 50 Black-and-White Illustrations
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