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Although Spanish-Colonial Revival architecture and place-names dominates Southern California’s landscape, one also finds examples of simulated Middle Eastern bazaars, references to Ancient Egypt, and the use of iconography from non-European Old World. While the region’s landscape is arguably a product of bricolage and postmodern sensibilities, this article looks at the history of ‘Orientalism’ in Southern California’s built environment.
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This page is a summary of: Contradictions in California’s orientalist landscape: Architecture, history and Spanish-Colonial Revival, Cities, August 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2010.09.003.
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