Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem: 2 books
The Architecture of Home in Cairo
Socio-Spatial Practice of the Hawari's Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD. Until early in the C20th, they made up the primary urban divisions of the city and were residential in nature. Contemporary hawari, by contrast, are...
Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in Northern Ireland
Shareness in a Divided Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation and expression of identity are central to the experience of urban space and architecture where the dichotomy of division and shared living are spatially...