A Century of Evolution in Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula, Ashraf M. Salama, Urban Design Group, London, 16 September 21.

July 30, 2021

A Century of Evolution in Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula, Ashraf M. Salama, Urban Design Group, London, 16 September 21.

A Century of Evolution in Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula
Professor Ashraf M. Salama
Thursday 16 September 2021 - 17:00 to 18:30
Zoom - FREE
17:00 to 18:30 pm (BST) |18:00 to 19:30pm (Cairo Time)

This lecture addresses the evolution of architectural and urban traditions in the Gulf states. Structured in three components, it first interrogates the way in which geo-cultural politics may have instigated a contemporary discourse on architecture and the urban environment. Second, it explores the evolutionary process by identifying a considerable number of events that evolved over a period of 100 years which are classified into political, economic, educational, infrastructural incidents. The relevance of these events is investigated by mapping them into actual manifestations on architecture and urbanism. The third component concerns itself with the impact of globalization on key cities of the Gulf states part of the evolutionary process. Within the three explored components issues that pertain 'human agency', and issues of 'newness', 'nowness', 'being', and 'becoming' are debated where the move from tribal governance to modern state governance is discussed. The presentation develops into an argument for the need for research frameworks that have the potential of providing deeper insights into the understanding of the evolution of architecture and urbanism in rapidly growing contexts.

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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).