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Title: Le Gymnase de Le Corbusier à Bagdad
Authors: Mina Marefat, Caecillia Pieri, Gilles Ragot
Publisher: Éditions du Patrimoine
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9782757703014
Language: French

Description:
The grand Baghdad Gymnasium, designed by the renowned Swiss Architect Le Corbusier, is a relic of the oil-rich Iraq which flourished under the reign of King Faisal II. Its rediscovery in recent years has fostered a small but ambitious preservation movement in post-war Iraq.
Located in the east of the capital, the massive concrete structure has surprisingly withstood the decades of war, internecine fighting and sanctions that have hit the country.
This book, with its numerous modern and at the time photographs, the draws and lots of archives is an invitation to rediscover this piece of modern architecture in a country we thought its architecture erased.

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