Awards

• Winner of AIS Shapiro 2018
• Winner of FLS Brinckerhoff 2018
• Winner of Seizing Jerusalem 2018

Overview

This first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalemchronicles how architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and everyonefrom municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, Israeli-born architects tointernational luminaries, competed to create Jerusalem's new image. AlonaNitzan-Shiftan reveals architecture as an active agent in forming urban andnational identity, demonstrating how debates about Zionism affected Jerusalem'sbuilt environment in ways that resonate today.

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A rigorous and insightful analysis of the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic encounters and intersections between the two modernisms-in-transition: architectural modernism and national modernism. --Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev With Seizing Jerusalem, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan has succeeded in establishing a breathtaking chronicle of the use made by plans, designs, and buildings to implement an agenda of hegemony. This book contributes masterfully to the renewed discussion about the political uses of architecture in the contemporary period. --Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University

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Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is associate professor and chair of the architecture program in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

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