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Egyptian Pioneer Architects in 20th Century

Summer training program for architecture students

from August 3rd - September 3rd, 2014

Practical training program on documenting the works of the Egyptian Pioneer Architects in the 20th century

Instructors: Tarek Waly, Shimaa Shaheen

Topics: Pioneer architects, Architectural Heritage, Documentation, Recording, Photographic recording, Modernity

Vision

In the first half of the twentieth century, between World War I and the end of World War II, Egypt witnessed a serious discussion of the issue of the cultural and civilizational identity of architecture in Egypt. It was looking forward to putting architecture within the features of the civilization of a new society in its new world, and regardless of the critical evaluation of these attempts and the successes or failures they achieved, that honestly express the requirements of the age and society with its intellectual and social duality between tradition and modernization. Between the copied and the seen, to form with the other cultural and creative tributaries a case of Egyptian times in the twentieth century. Believing in the importance of reviving Egypt’s architectural memory, the Tarek Waly Center Architecture and Heritage began issuing a series of legacies, which are the nucleus of a digital archive on Egyptian architects during hundred years in order to revitalize the memory of architecture so that young architects in particular and Egyptians, in general, know who laid the first building blocks of Egyptian architecture to complete the episodes of Egyptian history During the year 2014, the Center presented the topic of Egyptian temporality in the summer training program for architecture students and young architects with the aim of getting to know the history of the architectural movement in Egypt and begin by getting to know the pioneering Egyptian architects in the first half of the twentieth century..

The program consisted of theoretical research on the biographies of these architects to draw an almost complete picture of their careers, and field visits to what still exists of their works in an attempt to monitor, record, and document these works.

During the program, the team tracked and documented the biography and works of a number of pioneering architects: Ramses Wissa Wassef, Albert Zananiri, Mostafa Fahmy, and they were published in Zamanyat Egyptian publications.

Instructors

Tarek Waly

Tarek Waly is an architect who started his professional career approximately 40 years ago. He founded the Tarek Waly Center Architecture and Heritage to create a platform in Egypt that can record his stance obtained from carrying out the profession theoretically and practically.

Shimaa Shaheen

Shimaa Shaheen is an architect & researcher who believes in the role of the architect to create genuine cultural forms that connect authenticity & contemporaneity. She also believes in the necessity of practicing architecture through authentic cultural scopes that interact with society.

Trainees