Metamorphosing dead Abbasid forms into living modern architecture lies at the roots of Mohamed Makiya's classicism as an architect. This essay charts the stages of this metamorphosis from the Khulafa Mosque (1963) and the Kuwait State Mosque (one of the largest in the world) through to the vast and visionary schemes for Iraq of the late 1980s. Makijy's formally complex and nuanced architecture, the author argues, is continuous, harmonious, and celebratory of an Islamic past. It is there too innocent, too romantic to be post-modern in its sensibility, nor does it assume the revolution in values that modernism brought in its wake. None the less, many of modernism's discoveries about materials and space-making are deployed in an original way. The uneven combination between what is acquired from the modern, and mythologized about the past, is what makes Makiya's architectural vision unique, so unlike that of any of his contemporaries. In the final analysis, the architecture's dogged consistency in this regard is the source of its beauty.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Saqi Books
ISBN-13
9780863562952
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90774373
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Kanan Makiya
Publication Name
Post-Islamic Classicism: a Visual Essay on the Architecture of Mohamed Makiya
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
295mm
Item Width
215mm
Item Weight
30g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kanan Makiya
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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