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
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
10 mosques shortlisted by Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture https://t.co/u0wHuIXLx5 Explore the variety of #MosqueArchitecture through history and around the world by searching on Building usage includes Mosque on Archnet. #IslamicArchitecture#ArchitectureAwards
First proof of our new publication for the 'City of Islams', a continuous map of 54 mosques and 10 non-Islamic religious structures across geographies and times from the early days of Islam to the current religious… https://t.co/x1TdE7MfRk
Wikipedia used to have no biography for Ḥannā Diyāb, hailed by some folklorists as perhaps the most influential storyteller of the modern world. But as of just a month ago, there's now an entry on him and it's surprisingly good: https://t.co/v2c5uTPUnk
At the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, we are pleased to announce that the Amir Shakib Arslan mosque has been shortlisted for the prestigious @alfozanaward https://t.co/46lDwAYKjQ