Egypt
Tarek Waly Centre (Journal)
Tarek Waly Centre (Articles)
- World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme
World Heritage Centre Although Egypt is not specifically mentioned I see no reason why it should not be included in this programme, particularly when you look at places like the fabulous Medieavel town of El Qasr in Dakhleh oasis, which is truly remarkable...
- Cultant's Heritage Panorama Patent Celebration
State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif attended a celebration held Wednesday 11/7/2007 night at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage CULTNAT headquarters marking the occasion of receiving...
- Preserving Heritage Value
Al Ahram Weekly by Salah Zaki Lately, due to rising public awareness of the need to protect urban heritage, the Ministry of Culture cooperated with the Ministry of Housing in issuing Law #144 / 2006, which regulates demolition licenses and the conservation...
- World Heritage Sites: Threat Or Promise?
http://tinyurl.com/yxnyep (arabnews.com) An article about the pros and cons of establishing a site as a World Heritage Site. It is specific to three sites recently nominated in Saudi Arabia, but puts them into the context of more general issues: "Automobile...
- Cultural Heritage Centre To Open In Luxor
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ A new heritage centre is due to open in Luxur in April 2006. southern Egypt will get a new cultural heritage centre due to open in April, according to Fathi Salah, the Director of Centre for Documentation of Cultural...
Egypt
Online: Tarek Waly Centre
Tarek Waly Centre (Journal)
Tarek Waly Centre (Articles)
Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for sending me the links to the above site, which has open access publications.
PHILOSOPHY
Our founding as a heritage planning and architectural practice evolved around the cultural continuum … Our prime responsibility; helping perpetuate this continuum, by both drawing on past practitioners and, looking to pass it on to the coming generations
Social-urban heritage and the architecture of the place are the heart of our interest and expertise…Through analytically reading and critiquing this built – or at times, once built - heritage, we explore the geometry and patterns that provided it its being... its value
Our urban and architectural contributions to places of either a strong or a nascent heritage value, respect and, are informed by these geometries in an attempt to accomplish a lasting and relevant architecture... and heritage
SERVICES
The Tarek Waly Center, Architecture & Heritage was founded in 1998 to create a vision for the historic quarter of Cairo.
Since then we have established ourselves as a heritage planning practice with a portfolio of almost twenty heritage sites including the Giza Pyramids World Heritage Site.
Our interests and experience cover;
- Research on the historic value of a site or place in the form of a complete overview and time-line
- Urban and architectural design and design-guidelines for the immediate and surrounding built environment
- Design of the visitor experience
- World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme
World Heritage Centre Although Egypt is not specifically mentioned I see no reason why it should not be included in this programme, particularly when you look at places like the fabulous Medieavel town of El Qasr in Dakhleh oasis, which is truly remarkable...
- Cultant's Heritage Panorama Patent Celebration
State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif attended a celebration held Wednesday 11/7/2007 night at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage CULTNAT headquarters marking the occasion of receiving...
- Preserving Heritage Value
Al Ahram Weekly by Salah Zaki Lately, due to rising public awareness of the need to protect urban heritage, the Ministry of Culture cooperated with the Ministry of Housing in issuing Law #144 / 2006, which regulates demolition licenses and the conservation...
- World Heritage Sites: Threat Or Promise?
http://tinyurl.com/yxnyep (arabnews.com) An article about the pros and cons of establishing a site as a World Heritage Site. It is specific to three sites recently nominated in Saudi Arabia, but puts them into the context of more general issues: "Automobile...
- Cultural Heritage Centre To Open In Luxor
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ A new heritage centre is due to open in Luxur in April 2006. southern Egypt will get a new cultural heritage centre due to open in April, according to Fathi Salah, the Director of Centre for Documentation of Cultural...