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Architecture in a multi-layered land re-conceptualizing the israeli modern landscape Reut Yarnitsky

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Book
Thesis/Dissertation
Author/Creator:
Yarnitsky, Reut, author.
Contributor:
University of Pennsylvania. Architecture., degree granting institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Geography.
Archaeology.
0729.
0324.
0366.
Local Subjects:
Geography.
Archaeology.
0729.
0324.
0366.
Genre:
Academic theses
Physical Description:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Contained In:
Dissertations Abstracts International 87-12A
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2026
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This research seeks to understand the various 'geographies' that served as the raw materials from which the Land of Israel, as a modern national entity, was shaped. Closely reading symbols and both literary and visual imaginaries through which the Land was portrayed throughout Jewish history, I argue that the roots of Israeli architectural modernism extend beyond the immediate modern context of its architects and planners. To this end, I introduce a methodological model based on the identification of 'topologies' to trace the transformation of historical images and symbols into modern spatial frameworks. My historiographical objective is to conceptualize Israeli modernism not as a particular expression of 'core' ideas, but as emerging from its own reasoning, grounded in pre-modern foundations. By re-mapping the Israeli modern landscape, I aim to uncover the contradictions and tensions between the Land as the foundation for modern political structures and its 'other' symbolic meanings, thereby constituting it as a multilayered Land
Notes:
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-12, Section: A.
Advisors: Leatherbarrow, David Committee members: Weissberg, Liliane; Eisterer, S. E.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2026
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School code: 0175
ISBN:
9798247973232
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