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"In Other Words"
Official Exhibition Catalogue, Venice, Italy, 2016
Commissioned for the pavilion catalogue, this text frames Egypt’s exhibit as a snapshot of architects and researchers working outside conventional commissions. It contrasts two dominant Egyptian growth patterns—informal urbanism and elite desert sprawl—and explains why mapping projects and experimental prototypes were chosen to spotlight issues of inequality, agency, and conservation. The essay argues that documenting Cairo’s layered crises is itself a political act, calls for wider collaboration with non-architect builder–makers, and ends with a set of open questions about how such ad-hoc institutions can survive, scale, and meaningfully reshape the built environment.
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Criticism and Academic Writing