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Review: City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 ; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 ; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 ; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 ; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 ; and City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982

2013; University of California Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2013.72.3.399

2150-5926

Peter Holdt Christensen,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Review Article| September 01 2013 Review: City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; and City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982 Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona 10 July–13 September 2008Casa Árabe, Madrid 9 October–9 November 2008Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Murcia, Murcia 26 November–12 February 2009American Institute of Architects, New York Center for Architecture 22 February–5 May 2012Boston Society of Architects, Boston BSA Space 2 October 2012–10 January 2013Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah Harb House 4 November–15 November 2012 Peter Christensen Peter Christensen 1Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2013) 72 (3): 399–401. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.3.399 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Peter Christensen; Review: City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982; and City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2013; 72 (3): 399–401. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.3.399 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search After being inaugurated in Spain in 2008, the exhibition City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982, encompassing realized and unrealized architectural and urban schemes produced for that city by foreign architects, took its turn in the United States and Palestine in 2012–13 with installations in New York, Boston, and Ramallah. Much of the cast, with fourteen projects among them, form a parade of the modern and postmodern canon: Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, José Luis Sert, Alvar and Aino Aalto, Gio Ponti, Alison and Peter Smithson, Constantinos Doxiadis, Ricardo Bofill, and Willem Marinus Dudok. Four of the exhibition’s projects were realized in full or in part. The exhibition’s title, City of Mirages, is not the facile orientalizing heading it may at first appear. It comes rather from a poem by Iraqi Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose style is credited with reifying free verse... You do not currently have access to this content.