Modern architecture and the Mediterranean : vernacular dialogues and contested identities / edited by Jean-François Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

North versus south : introduction / Jean-François Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino -- From Schinkel to Le Corbusier : the myth of the Mediterranean in modern architecture / Benedetto Gravagnuolo -- The politics of Mediterraneità in Italian modernist architecture / Michelangelo Sabatino -- The moden and the Mediterranean in Spain : Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, Del Amo / Jean-François Lejeune -- Mediterranean dialogues : Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon, and Roland Simounet / Sheila Crane -- Nature and the people : the vernacular and the search for a true Greek architecture / Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- The legacy of an Istanbul architect : type, context and urban identity in the work of Sedad Eldem / Sibel Bozdogan -- The anti-Mediterranean in the literature of modern architecture : Paul Schultze-Naumburg's Kulturarbeiten / Kai K. Gutschow -- Erich Mendelsohn's Mediterranean longings : the European Mediterranean Academy and beyond in Palestine / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- Bruno Taut's translations out of Germany : toward a cosmopolitan ethics in architecture / Esra Akcan -- Mediterranean resonances in the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund : tradition, color, and surface / Francis E. Lyn -- Bernard Rudofsky and the sublimation of the vernacular / Andrea Bocco Guarneri -- CIAM, Team X, and the rediscovery of African settlements : between Dogon and Bidonville / Tom Avermaete.

"Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET