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The building border : a hermeneutical study in the cultural politics of space in Egypt, the case of El-Houd El-Marsoud Park in Cairo /

This work is about boundaries in architecture. It explores the order of producing boundaries (or borders) in contemporary buildings in Egypt. In this work, I understand a border to be a space that lies between various social domains and in which these domains-divergent overlapping social powers-are...

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Main Author: Adham, Khaled Nezar
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:
Major architecture.
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Summary:This work is about boundaries in architecture. It explores the order of producing boundaries (or borders) in contemporary buildings in Egypt. In this work, I understand a border to be a space that lies between various social domains and in which these domains-divergent overlapping social powers-are specialized. It is an in-between space, a connective tissue that constructs the difference between inside and outside, a domain and other domains, a state and a community. It is also a passage that prevents domains at either end of it from settling into primordial polarities. While I focus on a particular border of a modern institutional building in Cairo, my argument addresses the place of architecture in the wider cultural critique of modernity and postmodernity. The selected border is that of the Cultural Park for Children in Sayyida Zeinab and its neighboring community in Abu El-Dahab Alley. In this work, I will attempt to use architecture as a critique of Egyptian contemporary culture and society.
Item Description:Vita.
"Major Subject: Architecture".
Physical Description:xi, 276 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-272).