Login

 


 
     
Limit to available items
Record:   Prev Next
book jacket
BOOK
Title Dust : Egypt's forgotten architecture / Xenia Nikolskaya
Imprint Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2022
Kina, 2022
2022

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Konst, foto, musik, film, teater, sport  720 engelska    DUE 24-04-19  
Edition Revised and expanded edition
Descript 157 sidor 26 cm
Note "Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and materials. Today, many lie empty and neglected, rapidly succumbing to time, a real-estate frenzy, and an ongoing population crisis. In 2006 Russian-born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these structures. She gained exceptional access to them, taking photographs at some thirty locations, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Minya, Esna, and Port Said. These photographs were documented in the first edition of Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, which soon after its release in 2012 became a rare collector's item. This revised and expanded edition includes photographs from the first edition together with extra unseen images and new photographs taken by Nikolskaya between 2013 and 2021. It also includes previously unpublished essays by Heba Farid, co-owner of the Cairo-based photo gallery Tintera, and architect and urban planner Omar Nagati, co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform also in Cairo. Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture leads us seductively into some of the most breathtaking architectural spaces of Egypt's recent past, filled with a sense of both the immense weight and impermanence of history."-- Provided by publisher
Subject 1800-talet
1900-talet
Arkitektur
Palats
Arkitekturfotografi
Architecture, British colonial -- Egypt -- Pictorial works
Architecture -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
Architecture -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Architectural photography -- Egypt
Egypten
Bildverk
History.
Pictorial works.
Classmark 720.962/09034
Add Title Egypt's forgotten architecture
ISBN/ISSN 9781649031365 (hardcover)
164903136X
Record:   Prev Next