Dust : Egypt's forgotten architecture /
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"Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and materials. Today, many lie empty and neglected, rapidly succumbing to time, a real-estate frenzy, and an ongoing population crisis. In 2006 Russian-born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these structures. She gained exceptional access to them, taking photographs at some thirty locations, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Minya, Esna, and Port Said. These photographs were documented in the first edition of Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, which soon after its release in 2012 became a rare collector's item. This revised and expanded edition includes photographs from the first edition together with extra unseen images and new photographs taken by Nikolskaya between 2013 and 2021. It also includes previously unpublished essays by Heba Farid, co-owner of the Cairo-based photo gallery Tintera, and architect and urban planner Omar Nagati, co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform also in Cairo. Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture leads us seductively into some of the most breathtaking architectural spaces of Egypt's recent past, filled with a sense of both the immense weight and impermanence of history."--
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157 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 32 cm. :
9781649031365
Le Caire-Alexandrie architectures européennes, 1850-1950 /
: Papers from an international conference in Cairo organized by the Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales. : xv, 252 page : illustrations ; 33 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 2724702905 : 1110-2497 ;
Al-Qāhirah al-khidīwīyah : raṣd wa-tawthīq ʻimārat wa-ʻumrān minṭaqat wasaṭ al-madīnah /
: Another title: Kedivian Cairo - Identification and documentation of Urban-Architecture in Downtown Cairo. : 6, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 33 x 33 cm. : Bibliography : page 330. : 9771704508
Creating medieval Cairo : empire, religion, and architectural preservation in nineteenth-century Egypt /
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"This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: namely, the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comiť) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Sanders explores such varied topics as the British experience in India, the Egyptian debate over religious reform, and the influence of The Thousand and One Nights on European notions of the medieval Arab city ... this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo."
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xv, 216 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-206) and index. :
9774160959
Concours pour le musée des Antiquités égyptiennes du Caire, 1895 /
: "Actes du colloque international tenu à l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire, 12 novembre 2007"--T.p. verso. : 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9782708408562