Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World: A Critical Anthology

Peter Christensen is a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he is also an affiliate of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. His work focuses on geopolitical traditions and their connections with environmental issues relating to the borders of Islamic and Christian cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Along with Barry Bergdoll, Christensen was the recipient of the Philip Johnson Book Prize in 2010 from the Society of Architectural Historians. Christensen is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst and the Historians of Islamic Art Association.

Introduction Peter H. Christensen Chapter 1: 'I don't want orange trees, I want something that others don't have': Ottoman Head-Gardeners after Mahmud II Deniz Turker Chapter 2: A Nineteenth Century Architectural ArchiveL Syed Ahmad Khan's Asar-us-Sanadid Mrinialini Rajagopalan Chapter 3: The Balyan Family and the Linguistic Culture of a Parisian Education Alyson Wharton Chapter 4: Drawing Knowledge, (Re-)Constructing History: Pascal Coste in Egypt Eva-Maria Troelenberg Chapter 5: A Bourguibist Mural in the New Monastir? Zoubeir Turki's Play on Knowledge, Power, and Audience Perception Jessica Gerschultz Chapter 6: Expertise in the Name of Diplomacy: The Israeli Plan for Rebuilding the Qazin Region, Iran Neta Feniger and Rachel Kallus Chapter 7: Industrial Complexes, Foreign Expertise, and the Imagining of a New Levant Dan Handel and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan Chapter 8: Mobilities of Architecture in the Global Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait and Back Lukasz Stanek Chapter 9: Form Follows Faith: Swedish Architects, Expertise, and New Religious Spaces in the Stockholm Suburbs Jennifer Mack