Foci of architectural interest are shifting constantly. Not surprisingly, they usually coincide with historical centres of economical, political and cultural power. But occasionally, outstanding architectural works appear in conditions not that promising at the first glance. In the second “Middle East” edition of dAP, we ponder into the distant view, highlighting places, projects and personalities that bound to specific contexts, surpassing material constraints or interpreting idealized traditions, depict an optimistic and diversified image of the region flickering in constant change.
Coincidentally, two dynamically sublime views through window frames of machines in motion mark the beginnings of two “architectural” narratives that have been shaping Middle- Eastern landscapes ever since. In the initial chapter of his 1969’s “Architecture for the Poor”, Hassan Fathy gave...
Read moreFLUID MOTION ARCHITECTS, established by Catherine Spiridonoff and Reza Daneshmir is a successful architectural practice from Tehran, Iran. One of...
Read moreMOHAMMAD AL ASAD is architect and architectural historian with degrees from the University of Illinois and the Harvard University. He was teaching at...
Read moreVideo captions and slides from the lecture “QATARI ARCHITECTURE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE” given to the students of the Josep Lluis Mateo’s Chair during the seminar week trip Doha- Abu Dhabi- Dubai. 26.10.2011, Hotel Al Sharq, Doha
Excerpts from the abstract of the lecture “QATARI...
Doha, the capital of Qatar, keeps positioning and re-inventing itself on the map of international architecture and urbanism with different...
Read moreFrom the presentation given to the students of Josep Lluis Mateo's Chair during the seminar week trip Istanbul - Amman - Petra.
23.03.2011, Wild Jordan premises, Amman.
Recorded by Marianne Baumgartner
IN THE CITY: WILD JORDAN
As you all know, normally people think of a buildings...