Evolution of Cairo: Downtown Reimagined

Apr 20
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Apr 20
6:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Ewart Memorial Hall
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A new trajectory has been mobilizing in downtown Cairo for over a decade. From new boutique hotels, Airbnb, coworking spaces and experimental designs in passageways and urban pockets, today downtown has a different typology of landmarks. The splendor of heritage is coupled with a spirit of creative innovation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. "As eclectic as it may seem- and not devoid of some space for criticality- it is gradually evolving with multiple modalities of spatial transformation- from scales of space by space to building by building and through the streetscape".

Access to the event is on a first-come, first-served basis, and according to hall capacity.

Speaker(s)
Moderator
Magda Mostafa
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Architecture, AUC