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Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Architecture)
  • Author:  Crane, Sheila
  • Author:  Crane, Sheila
  • ISBN-10:  0816653623
  • ISBN-10:  0816653623
  • ISBN-13:  9780816653621
  • ISBN-13:  9780816653621
  • Publisher:  Univ Of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher:  Univ Of Minnesota Press
  • Pages:  376
  • Pages:  376
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2011
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2011
  • SKU:  0816653623-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  0816653623-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 101344945
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Marseille was a booming Mediterranean port. Positioned at the very edge of France, the city functioned as a critical fulcrum between the metropolitan center and its overseas empire. A notoriously dangerous and cosmopolitan city, Marseille became the focus of the extraordinary energies of some of the most remarkable architects and theorists of urban modernity.

Drawing together a cast of both world-renowned and less familiar architects, photographers, and cultural theorists, including Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Walter Benjamin, and László Moholy-Nagy,Mediterranean Crossroadsexamines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Tracing successive planning proposals in tandem with shifting representations of the city in photographs, film, guidebooks, and postcards, Sheila Crane reconstructs the history and politics of architecture in Marseille from the 1920s through the years of rebuilding after World War II.

By exploring how architects and planners negotiated highly localized pressures, evolving imperial visions, and transnational aspirations at the borders of Europe and the Mediterranean region,Mediterranean Crossroadsbrings to life a lost chapter in the history of modern architecture.
Examining Marseille as a significant center for the evolution of architectural and urban modernism.

"InMediterranean Crossroads, Sheila Crane offers a freshly inventive form of narrative about modern architecture and planning, one that reveals the intertwining of regional and national politics, imperialist/colonialist imaginaries, and popular images of the city." —Nancy Stieber, author ofHousing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920

"Sheila Crane’s book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the centerl³