Identity Flows, the Arabian Peninsula, and Emerging Metropolises (by Ashraf M. Salama) is featured in a new ATLAS: Architectures of the 21st Century: African and the Middle East (edited by Luis Fernández Galiano).
A New Atlas on Architectures of the 21st Century in Africa and the Middle East is now available.
Edited by Luis Fernández Galiano
Published by BBVA Foundation, Madrid, Spain
ISBN # 978-84-92937-19-6
http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/publicaciones/libros/fichalibro/index.jsp?codigo=633
THIS ATLAS, devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. With the same intellectual coordinates as the previous books, which attempted to simultaneously reflect the ‘state of the world’ and the ‘state of the art’, this publication gathers a selection of recent works and projects along with ten texts by prominent experts on the different countries or regions of the area, from Southern Africa to Turkey, passing through the heart of the continent, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and the territories that once were Persia, Mesopotamia and the Levant. Initiated with a volume on Asia and the Pacific, the series continued with one devoted to America, and will complete the itinerary with a fourth volume on the architectures of Europe, ending at the finis terrae of the Iberian Peninsula.
The Atlas features articles and a considerable of projects covering different countries and regions including
Luis Fernández-Galiano;
Springs and Storms. An Architectural Itinerary from Southern Africa to the Bosphorus
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1. Southern Africa
Iain Low
Nostalgia for the Specific. Southern Africa, Local Cultures and Global Pressures
2. Central and Eastern Africa
Antoni Folkers
Aspirations and Inspirations. Central and Eastern Africa, Precarious and Booming
3. Western Africa
Nnamdi Elleh
Vernacular Poetry. Western Africa, the Aesthetics of Scarcity
4. Northern Africa
Hassan Radoine
Modernity with Context. The North of Africa, a Mediterranean ‘genius loci’
5. Egypt
Khaled Asfour
Future Pasts. Egypt, the Character of a Culture
6. Arabian Peninsula
Ashraf M. Salama
Identity Flows. The Arabian Peninsula, Emerging Metropolises
7. Iran
Farrokh Derakhshani
Longing and Contemporaneity. Iran, New Forms of Self-Expression
8. Mesopotamia and Levant
Mohammad al-Asad
A Volatile Creativity. Mesopotamia and the Levant, Sprouts of Hope
9. Israel
Rafi Segal
Parallel Realities. Israel, between Conflict and Retreat
10. Turkey
Suha Özkan
Between East and West. Turkey, a Mosaic of Scales and Experiences
