مختارات من عمارة العالم العربي 1914-2014 (ص 157)

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مختارات من عمارة العالم العربي 1914-2014 (ص 157)

المحتوى

Fundamentalists and Other
Arab Modernisms
At a moment when the Arab world is in turmoil, it seems relevant
to assess what remains of the pan-Arab project; a transnational
political and cultural project, born in the early 20th century,
coinciding with the birth of modernism in the region.
The seeds of that modernist project arrived mostly from the
European colonial powers. These attempts at modernity started
materializing with the early development of the young nation-
states. It is important to note that the nation-state, and thus the
notion of nationalism, arose in the region mainly as a consequence
of colonialism.
But soon enough, the ideological bases of the national projects
were losing their dynamic, giving way to other forms of economical
and socio-political ideologies. This happened to coincide with
the exhaustion of the modernist project in the Arab world, voiding
it out from its initial agenda and bringing forward ostentatious
images of a blindly imported and sometimes baseless modernity.
‘The exhibition is conceived as a subjective and non-exhaustive
reading of the architectural legacy of the last 100 years across
the Arab World, paralleled with a brief overview of selected socio-
political events that took place during that period. It includes
the documentation of a hundred buildings, laid out flat without any
claim of qualitative architectural judgment. While some of the
featured buildings can be perceived as inspiring applications of
the modernist principles, others can be considered symptomatic
of the tendency to embrace modernism as a trend rather than
a project.
Bernard Khoury

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مختارات من عمارة العالم العربي 1914-2014

تاريخ

2014

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