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Spaces of Movement: An Architectural Critique of Globality in the Middle East

AMCA-Sponsored Panels at the 2014 MESA Conference, November 22-25, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington D.C.:

Monday, 11/24/14 11:00am
Spaces of Movement: An Architectural Critique of Globality in the Middle East
Chair: VahidVahdatZad and ShimaMohajeri

  • “Sarmatism, Orientalism, and the Third Reich: The Afterlife of Ottoman Imperial Tents in Europe” by Ashley Dimmig
  • “Shopping Mall in Translation: From US Suburbs to Pahlavi Tehran (1960-79)” by FarshidEmami
  • “Antoine Tabet’s Garden Mansions Housing Project in Haifa at the Crossroads of Empires:1937-1945” by AdeebNaccache
  • “Imagining the Mediterranean in Tripoli: Decoding the Nautical Chart of Ibrāhīm al-Mursī, 865AH/1461 CE” by Jeremy Ledger