ENCOUNTERS MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND ISRAELI NATIONALISM

Visitors approaching jerusalem from the west—until June 1967 the only approach under Israeli sovereignty—witnessed an unexpected sight on the edge of the Holy City: a modernist housing complex (Figure 1.1). These seemingly incongruous buildings were even promoted in the Ministry of Housing’s publica...

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Published inSeizing Jerusalem p. 19
Main Author ALONA NITZAN-SHIFTAN
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 30.05.2017
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied arts
Architectural control
Architectural history
Architecture
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Countries
Development studies
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of philosophy
Human geography
Jewish architecture
Jewish culture
Jewish peoples
Jewish studies
Judaic philosophy
Modernist art
Political geography
Social sciences
Territories
Urban development
Zionism
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Summary:Visitors approaching jerusalem from the west—until June 1967 the only approach under Israeli sovereignty—witnessed an unexpected sight on the edge of the Holy City: a modernist housing complex (Figure 1.1). These seemingly incongruous buildings were even promoted in the Ministry of Housing’s publicationIsrael Buildsas a flagship government project for Israel’s second decade. Known as Upper Lifta (today’s Romema), this complex of free-standing buildings is built on the city’s edge, just above the ruins of the Palestinian village of Lifta, which young architects would come to admire a decade later. The taller H-shaped buildings are built behind
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