Title
Egypt without architects: Recovering the country's design history
Description or Abstract
ARIC is honored to host Dr Mohamed Elshahed for its first Qahwa&Kalam lunch hour series for this academic year. He will be lecturing on "Egypt without architects: Recovering the country's design history." Trained as an architect before joining the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture at MIT and completing his PhD at NYU's Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Elshahed’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on the history of modernism in Egypt through architecture, images, and objects. As the Modern Egypt Project curator at the British Museum, he was responsible for building a new collection of material culture from the past century in Egypt. He is the curator of Egypt's medal-winning pavilion "Modernist Indignation" at the 2018 London Design Biennale and the author of the forthcoming (April 2019) book Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide, published by the American University in Cairo Press.
Keywords
Qahwa & Kalam
Department
Arab & Islamic Civilizations Department
Performance Date
October 2018
Content Type
Other
File Type
Video
Extent
1900-01-00
Language
eng
Recommended Citation
ElShahed, Mohamed curator and Writer, "Egypt without architects: Recovering the country's design history" (2018). Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc.... 67.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/audiovisual_faculty_work/67