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Other Title:

Between East and West: a Gulf : Kuwait's Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
Khalīj wa-muḥīṭuh : mushārakat Dawlat al-Kuwayt fī Maʻriḍ al-ʻImārah al-Dawlī al-Khāmis ʻashar - Bīnālī al-Bunduqīyah
خليج ومحيطه : مشاركة دولة الكويت في معرض العمارة الدولي الخامس عشر - بينالي البندقية

Subjects:

Architecture -- Kuwait -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Persian Gulf -- Exhibitions.

Language:

Text in English and Arabic.

Contents:

Evolving boundaries : rethinking borders and drawing a better line / Studio Bound, in collaboration with Fortune Penniman
Writing across the waters of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean / Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Musandam's Telegraph Island / Ahmad Makia
Jazirat Albanana, Doha, Qatar / Fatma Al-Sehlawi, Rashid bin Shabib
Cultural aspirations in the construct of a modern nation / Rand Abdul Jabbar, Meitha Al Mazrooel
Kish : an island indecisive by design / Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
(Re)constructing Failaka / Noor Boushehri
Five islands of Kuwait : a zone that challenges the zone / Abdulatif Al-Mishari
Gulf maps
Island catalogue
Island descriptions
Waste farming : recovering the ecosystem of the Gulf / AGi architects
Archaeology of inhabited ruins / Cerberus: the three-headed monster / Behemoth Press, Matteo Mannini Architects
After oil / Design Earth
Nature reserve on Halul / ESAS Architects
Line-between : infrastructures of economic compromise in the Gulf / Fortune Penniman with Studio Bound
Between North and South: Otherness / PADIO
Ecological vision as a drive of unity : building an effective scheme for the pan-Gulf environment / X-Architects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributor:

Majlis al-Waṭanī lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-Funūn wa-al-Ādāb (Kuwait), issuing body.
Majlis al-Waṭanī lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-Funūn wa-al-Ādāb (Kuwait)

OCLC:

966616568