Since 1945, the globalization of education and the
professionalization of architects and engineers, as well as the
conceptualization and production of space, can be seen as a product
of battles of legitimacy that were played out in the context of the
Cold War and what came after. In this book James Steele provides an
informative and compelling analysis of one of Egypt's foremost
contemporary architects, Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim, and his
work during a period of Egypt's attempts at constructing an
identity and cultural legitimacy within the post-Second World War
world order. Born in 1941 in the small town of Sornaga just south
of Cairo, Abdelhalim received his architectural training in Egypt
and the United States, and is the designer of over one hundred
cultural, institutional, and rehabilitation projects, including the
Cultural Park for Children in Cairo, the American University in
Cairo campus in New Cairo, the Egyptian Embassy in Amman, and the
Uthman Ibn Affan Mosque in Qatar. The first comprehensive study of
the work and career of Abdelhalim and his office, the Community
Design Collaborative (CDC), which he established in Cairo in 1978,
Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim: An Architecture of Collective Memory
is inspired by Abdelhalim's deep belief in the power of rituals as
a guiding force behind various human behaviors and the spaces in
which they are enacted and designed to play out. Each chapter is
consequently dedicated to one of these rituals and the ways in
which some of Abdelhalim's primary commissions have, at all levels
of scale, revealed and expressed that ritual. In the sequence
presented these are: the rituals of possession, reverence, order,
the transmission of knowledge, procession, human institutions,
geometry, light, the sense of place, materiality, and finally, the
ritual of color.
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