2024-05-02T18:29:37-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149948822/the-arab-city Places Journal 2016-06-01T15:00:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b0/b0mksmjvru2mhfgb.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In a region at once feared and exoticized, we have been witnessing for more than a generation the devastation of old centers and the rise of new ones. Today there is no better context in which to investigate the complexities of global practice in architecture than that of the rapidly changing Arab city.</p></em><br /><br /><p>How does the deeply traditional meet the hypermodern in the older centers of Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo, and in the emerging new cities of Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi? In Amale Andraos&rsquo; new article on Places, and in the new book, <a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/catalog/49-the-arab-city-architecture-and-representation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Arab City: Architecture and Representation</em></a>, she explores the region&rsquo;s complex relationship with modernity, questions the risks of essentialism in the enlisting of its cultural heritage, and asks what architecture has to do with identity in today&rsquo;s Arab cities.</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/149943271/dismantled-models-amale-andraos-on-archinect-sessions-one-to-one-21 Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-05-02T15:24:00-04:00 >2016-05-06T00:29:25-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0r/0rrcmkh8o2c9iamt.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>We last spoke with Amale Andraos for our <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/138357352/the-deans-list-amale-andraos-of-columbia-university-s-gsapp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deans List</a> series, a year after she <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/106406329/amale-andraos-to-succeed-mark-wigley-as-gsapp-s-new-dean" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">succeeded</a> Mark Wigley as dean of Columbia University's GSAPP. Since 2011 at GSAPP, before her deanship began, Andraos has led various research studios and seminars around "Architecture and Representation: The Arab City"&mdash;the results from which she has now edited, with Studio-X Amman director Nora Akawi, into a new book,&nbsp;<em>The Arab City</em>.</p><p>Andraos spoke with me about the perpetuated stereotypes and simplifications that plague discussions of Arab cities&mdash;the desert v. the oasis, the traditional v. the modern, etc.&mdash;and how her own experiences in Beirut inspired her research.</p><p>Listen to&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/670405/one-to-one" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One-to-One</a>&nbsp;#21 with&nbsp;<strong>Amale Andraos</strong>:</p><ul><li><strong>iTunes</strong>:&nbsp;<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/neil-denari/id1057340260?i=356797877" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to listen&nbsp;and subscribe to the new&nbsp;"Archinect Sessions One-to-One" podcast</a></li><li><strong>SoundCloud</strong>:&nbsp;<a href="http://soundcloud.com/archinect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here to follow Archinect</a></li><li><strong>RSS</strong>: subscribe with any of your favorite podcasting apps via our RSS feed:&nbsp;<a href="http://onetoone.libsyn.com/rss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://onetoone.libsyn.com/rss</a></li><li><strong>Download</strong>:&nbsp;<a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/onetoone/One_to_One_Episode_21_Amale_Andraos.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this episode</a></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Shownotes:</strong></p><p><em><a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/catalog/49" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Arab City: Architecture and R...</a></em></p>