TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pieri,Caecilia
TI  - Baghdad arts deco: architectural brickwork, 1920-1950 
SN  - 9789774163562 (hbk.) :
AV  - NA3702 .P54 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Brickwork
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Baghdad
KW  - Decoration and ornament
KW  - Architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 144); Aspects of a modern capital in construction, 1920-1950; Caecilia Pieri --; Baghdad, a palimpsest --; The city between the two empires: 1860-1917 --; Entering the Modern Era; a colonial project; stakes and paradoxes --; The 1930s; building a country, building a capital --; The 1940s; the mutation of references --; Conclusion; from urban planning to national planning --; Viewpoints; Caecilia Pieri --; Urban perspectives; the well-regulated city --; Façades; the smooth and the textured --; Passages; from the Hosh to the Hull --; Roofs, terraces, and balconies; suspended vistas --; The arch and the column; Varia --; Sculpted detail; a modern calligraphy --; The secret color --; Appendix --; Brief chronology
ER  -