Recent Contributions to Architectural and Urban Discourse.

March 15, 2021

Recent Contributions to Architectural and Urban Discourse.

Keynote: Integrationist Approaches: Interpreting the Realities of the Contemporary City: Between the Conceived, the Perceived, and the Experienced. Al Azhar Engineering 15th International Conference (AEIC-15), Holistic Engineering - Egypt 2030 Vision. Cairo, Online, 13 March 2021.

Foreword: Rethinking the ‘Lived’ Within the ‘Urban’ of the Middle Eastern City in a new book: Urban Challenges in the Globalising Middle East: Social Value of Public Spaces by Simona Azzali, Silvia Mazzetto, Attilio Petruccioli (Eds.). See here >>>>>>

Foreword: Transdisciplinary Thinking for Conceptualising Borders and Boundaries in a new book: The Dialectics of Urban and Architectural Boundaries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean by Suzan Girginkaya Akdağ; Mine Dincer; Meltem Vatan; Ümran Topcu; İrem Maro Kırış (Eds.). See here >>>>>>

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).