Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948.
Examining a fascinating and critical epoch in the architectural history of Jerusalem, this book presents a fresh and analytical discussion of British Mandate-era architecture through an exploration of four buildings that have had a lasting impact on the city’s built environment. The author reveals how these building projects evolved as an outcome of cross-cultural influences and relations between the British, American, Jewish-Zionist and Muslim-Palestinian communities. And she shows how the building and design processes behind these structures give new perspectives on the adaptation of modern architecture in the Middle East and the negotiation of historicism and vernacular architecture during the first half of the twentieth century.