Modern Architecture Kuwait: 1949 -1989

by Robert Fabbri, Ricardo Camacho, Sara Saragoca Soares, et al.

From the late 1940s at the inception of the oil exporting industry, via political independence in 1961, through to the late 1980s when Kuwait was invaded, the citystate experienced an extraordinary social and civic transformation, deeply inscribed in its built environment. The old coastal town was radically transformed through architecture and urban planning in the process of gaining wealth and autonomy. Important foreign and local architects found...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3721209486
• ISBN13: 9783721209488
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Niggli
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.1" x 10.3"