The New Modernism: The Middle East
While some argue that the heyday of international style modernism in the 1930s failed to change European political futures, and others wonder aloud why US post-war modernity failed to usher in real social change in America, most of us agree that post-modernism answered few grand, macro-level, questions about our culture. But what is happening in Kuwait, Cairo and Dubai, all incubators for leading-edge contemporary architecture, may cause future sociologists and cultural anthropologists to take stock of design amidst real cultural upheaval. Of course we didn’t come up with this theory, Horace Brockington did. Check out his essay HERE
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