No. 2008 (2008): Ciudad del Espejismo: Bagdad, de Wright a Venturi

Ensayos - Critical Essays

• Prologue

  Pedro Azara Nicolás

• Presentation: another tale of two cities

  Ignacio Rupérez

• City of Mirage: Bahgdad, from Wrigth to Venturi (1952-1982). Presentation of the exhibition

  Pedro Azara Nicolás

• Iraq as it was and starting over

  Ignacio Rupérez

• Baghdad, a tragic story

  Gema Martín Muñoz

• Driving through Baghdad with an armored vehicle

  Tomás Alcoverro

• Humanism in the Modernist Era

  Michelle Grant

• Baghdad. Images and Memories

  Ghada M.R. Al Siliq

• Urbanism in Baghdad before the planning: a codification between the fates of the arbitrary and urgent needs (1920-1950)

  Caecilia Pieri

• Modernism in Baghdad

  Suad Medhi

• To build a stadium: Le Corbusier's project for Baghdad, 1955-1973

  Rémi Baudouï

• The "American Embassy" building in Baghdad: The architect and architecture

  Khaled Al-Sultany

• U.S. Embassy in Baghdad: ingredients of a cold dish

  José María Rovira Gimeno

• Half a century after the creation of the "Wright" projects in Baghdad: Plans for the imagined architecture

  Khaled Al-Sultany

• Wright's Baghdad: Ziggurats and green visions

  Mina Marefat

• The Universal University: How Bauhaus Came to Baghdad

  Mina Marefat

• "Containing" Baghdad: Constanitnos Doxiadis' Program for a Developing Nation

  Lefteris Theodosis

• Baghdad, from International style to Post-modernity: architecture and representation

  Joan Puebla Pons

• Saddam Hussein sports complex (1955-1965, 1979-1983). Le Corbusier and George Marc Présenté

• The North American Embassy in Baghdad (1955-1959). José Luis Sert

• Plan for a greater Baghdad (1957-1959). Frank Lloyd Wright

• University Campus of Bagdad (1957-). Walter Gropius, TAC and Hisham A. Munir

• Police Headquarters, Palace of Justice, Property Register (Civic Center) (1957-1959). Willem Marinus Dudok

• Project for the Fine Arts Museum in Baghdad (1957-1963). Alvar and Aino Aalto

• Headquarters for the Development Board and the Ministry of Planning (1957-1963). Gio Ponti, with the collaboration of Antonio Fornaroli and Alberto Rosselli, and Giuseppe Valtolina and Egidio Dell'Orto

• Sector 10 of the Partial Plan for Western Baghdad (Plan and partial construction: 1957-1958). Neighborhood of Al-Thwara ("Sadr City"), Part of the Partial Plan for Eastern Baghdad (Plan: 1958; Construction: 1961-1963). Constantinos A. Doxiadis (Doxiadis Associates).

• Iraki House in London (1960-1961). Alison and Peter Smithson

• Project for a sector of the new residential and financial neighborhood Bab Al-Sheikh (1982 y 1987). Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

• Project for the competition for the State Mosque of Baghdad (1982). Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

• Project for the competition of the National Mosques of Baghdad (1982). Robert Venturi, John Rauch, Denise Scott-Brown. Estudio: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.

• Project for a commercial and residential block on Khulafa Street (1981-1982). Robert Venturi, John Rauch, Denise Scott-Brown. Estudio: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.

• Bibliografía

• Textos en árabe