This study examines the influence of modernity on residential buildings as a new form of expansion built during the Jordanian Rule (1948–1967) outside the Old City of East Jerusalem. Through investigating a sample of houses, the study shows how building typologies, layouts and architectural characteristics depict and inform reinterpretations and adaptations of modernity. Unlike the modernity that emerged out of the western locus, these buildings do not ignore their vernacular roots but adapt to the Palestinian socio-cultural lifestyle, and at the same time borrow from the aesthetic and ideological characteristics of the modern idiom. Based on architectural documentation and ethnographic research, the analyses show that the peasants (Fallahin) made an important contribution to the adaptive modernity of residential buildings in East Jerusalem. The designs were influenced by some aspects of modernity but were also subject to local and cultural determinants. The study contributes to the literature on ‘other modernities’ outside the west, and to an architectural history that is informed by people’s private and individual experience rather than by those working in the profession. This is considered to be a neglected heritage that this article aims to redress.

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适应现代性：东耶路撒冷的现代建筑设计，1948-1967

本研究考察了现代性对作为约旦统治时期（1948-1967）期间在东耶路撒冷老城外建造的一种新的扩建形式的住宅建筑的影响。通过调查房屋样本，该研究展示了建筑类型、布局和建筑特征如何描绘和告知对现代性的重新解释和适应。与从西方轨迹中出现的现代性不同，这些建筑并没有忽视其白话根源，而是适应了巴勒斯坦的社会文化生活方式，同时借鉴了现代成语的审美和意识形态特征。基于建筑文献和人种学研究，分析表明农民（法拉欣）对东耶路撒冷住宅建筑的适应性现代性做出了重要贡献。这些设计受到现代性的某些方面的影响，但也受到当地和文化决定因素的影响。该研究为西方以外的“其他现代性”文献做出了贡献，并有助于建立由人们的私人和个人经验而不是从业人员所了解的建筑历史。这被认为是本文旨在纠正的被忽视的遗产。