Egyptian Association of Architecture Students
Egyptian Association of Architecture Students The association portfolio, documenting events conducted along the previous semester, including a brief about the association, the vision of the association, and the profile of the EAAS Team. EAAS Facebook Page: Egyptian Association of Architecture Students EAAS Email: egyptianaas@hotmail.com
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About The Association.. Egyptian Association of Architecture Students EAAS is the first nationwide student-led Architecture Association in Egypt -One that fosters effective communicative channels to connect and unite us. -One that promotes exchange and exposure to enhance our learning experience. -One that combines our efforts to advance and revive the true essence of Architecture in Egypt. -And finally, one that creates a platform for us to be heard!
Contact Us! Facebook Page: Egyptian Association of Architecture Students EAAS Email: egyptianaas@hotmail.com
Our Vision.. Our vision is to create a platform that gathers architecture students from all over egypt to help their voices to be heard and pops eachone’s own bubble
Our Mission 1. Generation of communication channels to connect Egypt’s Architecture academic community 2. Exposure and exchange of student work and activities to enhance the learning experience of all 3. Facilitated reach-out for mutual support and cross-collaborations 4. More effective channels for connecting with and impacting our community
Our Scope The Association’s main channels of activities include: -Educational -Community Development -Exposure and Exchangea
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The involved universities..
Ain Shams University
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST
Cairo University (Credits and Mainstream)
German University in Cairo (GUC)
The British University in Egypt (BUE)
The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Our Events.. t’s about It’s about It’s about It’s about tion. Finally.. It’s about
time.. time we start unraveling our identity as Egyptians. time we start questioning what has long been unquestioned. time we start acknowledging the power of collective conversa-
time we start having the conversation!
In alignment with our vision, we started “The Dialogue” ; our first student-led dialogue series fostering intellectual discourse and conversation as its primary objective.
Events Timeline
29th of March, 2019
3rd of May, 2019
29th of March, 2019 AUC Tahrir Campus Oriental Hall Our posed question is.. Where does the Egyptian Identity truly lie? An Identity controversy that we all; as Egyptians, relate to. Our speakers came from different backgrounds for us to tackle such a question in a well-rounded manner. One of the most frequent questions asked in The Dialogue was about whether identity changes with time or is it constant. The speakers’ panel has answered the question, accompanied by many others, posed by the people as well as our moderator.
Our Speakers Waleed Arafa Waleed Arafa is the founder and principal of Dar Arafa Architecture, Cairo, Egypt. He is an alumni of AimShams University 2001 and the Architectural Association (AA) 2015. His design and build career started with Dar Arafa Residence (2003-2006) nominated for the Aga Khan Award 2010 and his latest building is the Basuna Mosque 2019, shortlisted for AFAMA. Waleed continues to research, design and build with an aim in mind; understanding the essence of the architecture of Islam.
Karim El Hayawan Karim El Hayawan is a Cairo-based visual artist and interior architect. After founding Design Point Studio in Cairo in 2002, Karim began to develop his photography under the mentorship of Alaa Abdel Naby of Reuters. His work has been exhibited at the “Contemporary Arab Photography Biennale” at the Institut Du Monde Arabe in Paris, The Grid Cape Town Biennale in South Africa, the Biennale in Cairo titled “Something Else”, Abu Dhabi Art at Hafez Gallery, Al-Ahram’s Salon for Fine Arts and Darb1718 in Cairo, in addition to the Egyptian pavilion at Dak’art Biennale. His work has been featured in numerous publications throughout the region.
3rd of May, 2019 AUC Tahrir Campus Oriental Hall Our posed question is.. How does the city portray the Egyptian Identity? An Identity controversy that we all; as Egyptians, relate to. Our speakers come from different backgrounds for us to tackle such a question in a well-rounded manner. Our second dialogue is in collaboration with NextARCH Lab as they host their first exhibition, Architecture Tsunami. This exhibition tackles the planning paradigm that drives the progression of the “newer� city of Cairo deeper into the desert and how at the same time, it returns to the old city of Cairo, polishes, demolishes and rebuilds it until it gradually reshapes its image and memory.
Our Speakers Tamer El Said Tamer El Said is a filmmaker and producer living between Berlin and Cairo where he was born in 1972. He studied filmmaking and journalism and went on to make many documentaries and short films that received several international and local awards. Tamer founded Zero Production in 2007 to produce independent films. He is also a founder of Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in Egypt, a multi-purpose space that provides facilities, training and programing for the independent filmmaking community. His first feature length film, In the Last Days of the City, was premiered in the Berlinale 2016 where it received the Caligari Film Prize.
Mohamed Elshahed Mohamed Elshahed, founder/editor of Cairobserver, is a Cairo-based architect, independent researcher and writer. He is the Curator for the British Museum’s Modern Egypt Project. Elshahed used to teach architectural history at the American University in Cairo. In 2014-15 he was an Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices post-doctoral fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Middle East Studies Department at New York University. Mohamed has a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master in Architecture Studies from MIT.
May Al-Ibrashy May al-Ibrashy is a licensed architectural engineer with 25 years of field experience in conservation and heritage management in Islamic Cairo. She is currently founder and chair of the Built Environment Collective-Megawra, which consists of Egyptian NGO and consultancy working on issues of the built environment. She coordinates Athar Lina, an initiative run by BEC-Megawra in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Cairo Governorate that conserves the heritage of al-Khalifa in Historic Cairo and conceives of it as a driver for community development. She is also adjunct professor of architecture at the American University in Cairo.
Sneak Peaks..
Dialogue I
Dialogue I
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