Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil: When Architecture Becomes Memory

Name: Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil: When Architecture Becomes Memory
Author: Imad Darouich

عبدالواحد الوكيل: العمارة حين تصبح ذاكرة

An epic reading of the Egyptian architect Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil in ten chapters, from his birth in Cairo and his years with Hassan Fathy to Halawa House, the mosques of Jeddah, the Aga Khan Award and Dar Al Islam in the American desert. It reads his work as building with climate, clay and memory.