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Conference - Identity, Modernity, and (Post)coloniality in the Architecture of the Arab Gulf from the 1950s to the Present
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Organised by the SAFIR Institute, the international conference Identity, Modernity, and (Post)coloniality in the Architecture of the Arab Gulf Countries from the 1950s to the Present brings together Gulf and international architectural and planning historians to examine the transformations of the six GCC countries during the oil boom and the post-oil era, and to question the forms of modernity these transformations produced. Through questions of nation-building, regional identity, climatic design, welfare, and infrastructures, the conference explores how architecture in the Gulf has been shaped by changing forms of globalization and transnational exchanges between local actors and architects, engineers, and planners from across the Arab world and beyond. It seeks to reassess the narratives and specific trajectories of Gulf modernity and their place within broader histories of modern and contemporary architecture.
Image: Kuwait National Assembly, 1972-82, Jørn Utzon © Utzon Archives / Aalborg University & Utzon Center
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