My Fathers House: The Architecture of Cultural Heritage
Salma Samar Damluji and Tim Macintosh
British Council
Arabic, English
Softcover
80 Pages
238 x 164 mm
2009
ISBN 0863556213
This is a catalogue for the exhibition My Fathers House: The Architecture of Cultural Heritage. Featuring work by five emerging Middle Eastern artists and three UK photographers – including Winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2007 Tim Hetherington – the exhibition uses large-scale photography, audio-visual media and film to examine how the built environment reflects the people, the community, society and the nations of the Gulf States and Arabian Peninsula. Each of the artists has focused on an individual sphere of investigation and specific countries in the Gulf States and Arabian Peninsula.
Commissioned by the British Council, My Father’s House approaches the subject of cultural identity from the inside out. The exhibition hopes to remind its audiences to look at the spaces they inhabit, and engage in the debate about development of their built environment, to ensure that it reflects a true sense of their personal and communal identity. As an exhibition, initially commissioned by the British Council for a tour of the Gulf States and Arabian Peninsula, My Father’s House approaches the subject of cultural identity from the inside out. The show hopes to remind its audiences to look at the spaces they inhabit, and engage in the debate about development of their built environment, to ensure that it reflects a true sense of their personal and communal identity.
(source: https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/myfathershouse/)
About the Artists
Salma Samar Damluji is an Iraqi British architect, professor and author. She graduated from the AA School of Architecture in 1977 and from the Royal College of Art in London in 1987, where she did her doctorate. She worked with the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in Cairo, in 1975-6 and in 1984–5.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Samar_Damluji)
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer. He has written many books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series.
mackintosh-smith.com
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mackintosh-Smith)
About the Publisher
The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
britishcouncil.org
(source: https://www.britishcouncil.org/)
