The Arab Center for Architecture, among other institutions, is participating in an event in celebration of International Archive Day organized by the Modern Heritage Observatory.

This exhibition, which is being shown at the Sursock Museum, intends to introduce the public to different endangered historical collections, as well as provide insight into the importance and effect of maintaining the region's contemporary legacy as a method of preserving cultural memory.

Read more about the event here.
 

The Arab Center for Architecture (ACA), in partnership with the
International Writers’ House (BeK),
is introducing a series of conferences, bringing together writers and
architects, to discuss the representation,
development and planning in Arab cities from a multidisciplinary
perspective.

The first conference, to be held on MAY 18TH AT 6:00 PM, will bring
together novelist Mohamed al-Fakharany (Egypt)
and architect Omar Nagati (EGYPT), and will focus on the city of Cairo.
The Talk is moderated by Nadine Touma, (Dar Onboz, Lebanon)

The event will take place at the ARAB CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE,
Sélim Rustom Baz Street, Sassine, Ashrafieh,
Mrad Building, 4th floor, above Shisha Café, facing ABC.

The talk is in Arabic.

The Arab Center for Architecture is hosting a conference through which Caecilia Pieri who will present her latest book written in French: Bagdad, la construction d’une capitale moderne (1914-1960).

Pieri is Associate Researcher at the French Institute of the Near-East (IFPO), Beirut, where she was formerly Head of the Urban Observatory (2011-2015), after spending 25 years as a Senior Editor in the field of architecture and heritage. She received her PhD at EHESS, Paris, on the subject of the modernization of Baghdad, where she has been conducting fieldwork since 2003 throughout 19 sojourns.

She works on cities in conflict, and the use of heritage as a social marker and tool for politics as the coordinator of a research program within Ifpo/AUF, "Heritage at war in the Mediterranean region". A member of ICOMOS- International and DOCOMOMO-Lebanon, she collaborates with MUAMA/UNESCO (World Heritage) as an expert for modern heritage in the Arab World. She is the author and the co-author, among others, of Bagdad Arts Déco (2008 – also published in English and in Arabic), of Bagdad Renaissance. Contemporary Art in Iraq (2003), and The Le Corbusier Gymnasium in Baghdad (2014).

For the occasion, the book will be sold at the Center ($60).