Grateful to my dear friend Makram El Kadi for sending me « At the Edge of Where God Built » آخر ما عمّر الله, which he co-authored with Ziad Jamaleddine.
More than a book on architecture, it is an invitation to rethink space, identity, faith, memory, and belonging through a deeply rooted yet contemporary Arab lens. Through five powerful spatial concepts (Mataf, Jami, Riwaq, Dar, and Khirbe), the book moves between the sacred and the everyday, the home and the ruin, history and modernity.
I particularly love the title: آخر ما عمّر الله that evocative edge where geography, architecture, culture, and the human story meet.
Congratulations Makram and Ziad on a thoughtful and beautifully conceived work.
The @GrahamFound announces this year's grant recipients for publication, with our upcoming book "from the mountain to the sea" published by @actar_publisher as one of the awarded grants. #grahamgrantee
فلم وثائقي : مسجد أمير شكيب ارسلان - لبنان | Documentary Film : Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque - Lebanon
https://t.co/lh1ZNDCCbd
#جائزة_عبداللطيف_الفوزان_لعمارة_المساجد
الحداثة تثري التراث..
عناصر معمارية داخلية أعادت تعيين اتجاه القبلة دون المساس بالمبنى الأثري، وعلى أرضيته ترتسم الذبذبات الصوتية للآذان لتضيف ترددًا بصريًا مذهلًا لنداء الصلاة.
#مسجد_الأمير_شكيب_أرسلان في لبنان الفائز
بـ #جائزة_عبداللطيف_الفوزان_لعمارة_المساجد
More than 60 international architecture firms have put artworks and signed drawings up for auction, in a bid to raise funds for rebuilding Beirut after the explosion that rocked the city in August. https://t.co/j30R14p6E9
Tonight (10/26) at 6PM EDT GSAPP Assistant Professor Ziad Jamaleddine @JamaleddineZiad & Makram el Kadi @makramkadi introduce recent work by their firm @LEFTarchitects: https://t.co/c16otH3gvV
We are thrilled to be participating in the upcoming inaugural edition of the @sharjaharch Triennale curated by adrianlahoud under the heading of 'Rights of Future Generations' - Opening November 9th https://t.co/IWlXWFCuHN
The profession is in dire need of imaginative approaches like this L.E.F.T. Intervention to mosque design, which otherwise has been stuck in late Ottoman mode.