Surrounded by current trends of developer-driven, globalised banality observed prominently in the current Cairene architectural landscape, a studio response, based on the parallel development of the Juxtopolis© Pedagogy, was introduced. This pedagogy presents Cairo as a multi-layered “Juxtopolis©”, a series of contradictions and juxtapositions co-existing in seeming chaos- and the pedagogical response to this phenomenon. It defines Cairo through its juxtapositions of notions such as poverty and wealth; formal and informal; static and dynamic; owned and contested; male and female; water and land; permanent and transient.
This pedagogical response has evolved around a specific question of developing an appropriate, inclusive and representative contemporary Egyptian architectural expression and its results are presented in this book.
