Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Foreword Jean-Louis Cohen 1. Pride and Prejudice: The Historiography of Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean Part 1: NORTH 2. From Hoffmann to le Corbusier: Modern Architecture and the Myth of the Mediterranean 3. Bernard Rudofsky and the Sublimation of the Vernacular 4. The Vernacular Discourse in Vienna 5. The Anti-Mediterranean in the literature of architecture: Paul Schultze-Naumburg's "Kulturarbeiten" 6. A "Seaside Bauhaus": Wijdeveld, Mendelsohn, Ozenfant, and the Project of the European Mediterranean Academy, 1931-1934 7. Migration in Post-War Architecture: Shared Stories on the Architecture of Dwelling in North Africa Part 2: SOUTH 8. The Primitive and the Vernacular in Italian Modernism 9. Sert, de la Sota, Coderch: Rural Poetics and Modernity in Spain (1925-65) 10. Bruno Taut and the Last Melancholy of the "Other World" 11. The Legacy of an Istanbul Architect: Type, Context, and Urban Identity in the Work of Sedad Eldem 12. Aris Konstantinidis and "The Old Athenian Houses"