Pressure cooker recipes : an architectural cookbook /

Cooking and architecture have a lot in common. Both start with a set of ingredients that are combined to create a whole. One that is often greater than the sum of its parts. Conceived as a publication for the exhibition at the National Pavilion United Arab Emirates at La Biennale di Venezia 2025, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Biennale di Venezia, International Architectural Exhibition
Other Authors: Aboualam, Azza (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Abu Dhabi, UAE : National Pavilion UAE La Biennale di Venezia : Kaph Books, [2025].
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Table of Contents:
  • PROLOGUE
  • Commissioner's foreword : Right plant, right place / by Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation
  • Supporter's foreword / by UAE Ministry of Culture
  • Curator's note : Where do the blueberries come from? / by Azza Aboualam
  • Side note, editor's note, & acknowledgements / by Azza Aboualam
  • JOURNEY THROUGH A MEAL
  • Course 1. Starters and first impressions. Where to begin : historic groundings / by Azza Aboualam
  • Course 2. Salads & fresh beginnings. Growing papayas in the desert : an agricultural engineer recounts a transnational history of greenhouses in the UAE, 1970s-1990s / by Huma Gupta
  • Course 3. Family feasts. From land to hearth : diet in the Arabian Desert / by Sarah Saad Alajmi
  • INGREDIENTS AS HEROS
  • Course 1. Cool as a cucumber. Fieldwork findings / by Azza Aboualam
  • Course 2. The desert's bread loaves. Through the companion's eyes : a fictional and probably more accurate retelling of Zwemer's journeys / by Faysal Tabbarah
  • Course 3. The essential grains. Joining together : architecture, agriculture, and the conceptualization of craft / by Kevin Mitchell
  • COOKING TECHNIQUES
  • Course 1. Cut, slice, and dice. Imported vs contextual / by Azza Aboualam
  • Course 2. Simmering & stewing. It's not the heat, it's the humidity : designing for crop growth and human comfort in desert greenhouses / by Dimitri Brand and Kit Elsworth
  • Course 3. Conceal & reveal. Living machines / by HOME-OFFICE (Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting)
  • MEAL KITS & PREP
  • Course 1. Quick & easy kits. Future speculation : live, grow, eat in an Emirati neighborhood / by Azza Aboualam
  • Course 2. Make-ahead meals and creative leftovers. Reviving self-reliance : the resurgence of backyard farming and livestock management in Emirati suburban villas / by Rashed Almulla
  • Course 3. One-pot wonders. Form, pattern, rule : reading carbon form at the territorial scale / by Elisa Iturbe
  • SEASONAL & LOCAL
  • Course 1. Homegrown. Photo essay 01 / by Azza Aboualam and Ola Allouz
  • Course 2. Summer harvest. Photo essay 02 / by Azza Aboualam and Ola Allouz
  • Course 3. Winter comforts. Photo essay 03 / by Azza Aboualam and Ola Allouz
  • EPILOGUE
  • Editor's biography
  • Writers' biographies
  • Bibliography.