Lecture 2. Local Colonial Architecture

The second lecture provides an overview of the attempts of colonial powers to create their own local identity in Palestine during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Focusing on buildings of key religious and colonial institutions this lecture explains how these attempts were manifested in the built environment while creating a hybrid of western and oriental building traditions and ornamentations, in the attempt to produce a local colonial architecture. The lecture starts with the growing religious construction in Jerusalem during Ottoman rule, then moves to western colonialist compounds, the German Templer colonies, and the early Zionist construction in Haifa, Jerusalem and Ahuzat Beit (Tel Aviv). The lecture ends with the first modernist colonialist buildings during the British Mandate over Palestine.


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Handout

Quiz with Answers

Lecture Notes