The Subversive Utopia - Sakr, Yasir
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The Subversive Utopia explores how modern architecture shaped the evolving identity and collective memory of Israel-focusing on the symbolic and contested landscape of Jerusalem. Through the lens of visionary architect Louis Kahn and his unrealized design for the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, this groundbreaking study uncovers how architecture became a tool for nation-building, cultural expression, and ideological debate. Drawing from rare archival documents, architectural drawings, and historical accounts, the author reconstructs the complex interplay between design, politics,…mehr

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The Subversive Utopia explores how modern architecture shaped the evolving identity and collective memory of Israel-focusing on the symbolic and contested landscape of Jerusalem. Through the lens of visionary architect Louis Kahn and his unrealized design for the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, this groundbreaking study uncovers how architecture became a tool for nation-building, cultural expression, and ideological debate. Drawing from rare archival documents, architectural drawings, and historical accounts, the author reconstructs the complex interplay between design, politics, and spirituality in one of the world's most sacred and disputed cities. Tracing the efforts of Jewish architects from the 19th century onward to define a distinct national Jewish architectural style, the book situates Kahn's Hurva project within a broader narrative of modernism, heritage, and identity in Israel. Blending architectural history, cultural analysis, and political context, The Subversive Utopia reveals the hidden dialogue between modernism and tradition, national symbolism and urban form, and the enduring struggle over the visual and emotional meaning of Jerusalem.
Autorenporträt
Yasir Mohammad Sakr (Ph.D.), born in Cambridge, MA., completed his Master's and Doctoral studies at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Sakr teaches and writes on various aspects of architectural design, theory, criticism, and history. A visiting scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Design, he is an international award-winning consultant in architectural design and planning; managed the urban regeneration projects of the center of the holy city of Mecca, including the grand expansion of the Haram Mosque.