MODERNIST BEIRUT

Since the 1950s, Beirut and Lebanon have been a veritable laboratory of architectural modernity in the Middle East, calling upon the greatest national and international architects. Institutions and large companies Lebanese women turned to concrete and so-called brutalist forms, fully participating in the renewal of world architecture. If Lebanon has gave birth to a flowering of exemplary buildings of this period, this This book is an invitation to discover more than thirty, often little-known, and admirably captured by the gaze of Matthieu Salvaing. Through their selection, The authors invite the reader to follow their steps into the heart of the different modernist experiences that have crossed Lebanon as so many testimonies of an international and generous vision. Public orders, such the emblematic Tripoli International Fair built by Oscar Niemeyer or the André Wogenscky's Ministry of Defense, with private villas like those made by Henri Edde, passing by the Interdesign building by Khalil Khoury, this work is the celebration of a happy history of Lebanon, anchored in modernity and open to the world.