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Capital city or spiritual center? The politics of architecture in post-1967 Jerusalem
The paper focuses on the 1970 encounter between Israeli planning officials and an advisory committee of architectural luminaries, which unraveled a fundamental conflict between two visions for the city of Jerusalem. The Isarelis advocated high-modernist vision—functionalist, progressive, and geared toward everyday life—thereby stressing the role of the city as a civic capital. The committee emphasized instead post-WWII revised modernism—a focus on memory, community, and place, as well as visual imagery—with the aim of establishing Jerusalem as a universal spiritual center. Throughout, the international committee advocated post-Second World War modernism in the name of universal values anchored in the contemporary porfessional debate—the crisis of the modernist city. The second part of this paper consequently argues that it was this apparently neutral professionalism that enabled the international committee to exercise far-reaching influence on the politics of space in Jerusalem.
Capital city or spiritual center? The politics of architecture in post-1967 Jerusalem
The paper focuses on the 1970 encounter between Israeli planning officials and an advisory committee of architectural luminaries, which unraveled a fundamental conflict between two visions for the city of Jerusalem. The Isarelis advocated high-modernist vision—functionalist, progressive, and geared toward everyday life—thereby stressing the role of the city as a civic capital. The committee emphasized instead post-WWII revised modernism—a focus on memory, community, and place, as well as visual imagery—with the aim of establishing Jerusalem as a universal spiritual center. Throughout, the international committee advocated post-Second World War modernism in the name of universal values anchored in the contemporary porfessional debate—the crisis of the modernist city. The second part of this paper consequently argues that it was this apparently neutral professionalism that enabled the international committee to exercise far-reaching influence on the politics of space in Jerusalem.
Capital city or spiritual center? The politics of architecture in post-1967 Jerusalem
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona (author)
Cities ; 22 ; 229-240
2005-01-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Modernism , Space , Israel , Architecture , Jerusalem
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