Cairo Modern Celebrates Egyptian Modernism and Raises the Alarm for Its Future


Villa Badran designed by Gamal Bakry . Image Courtesy of CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE

Villa Badran designed by Gamal Bakry . Image Courtesy of CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE

On view at the Center for Architecture in New York City, the exhibition features 20 projects in Cairo and a warning about the threatened future of Egypt’s Modernist heritage.

Cairo Modern, a new exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York, features 20 demolished, extant, and proposed projects in Cairo dating from the 1930s to the 1970s and also shines a light on the wrecking ball-threatening Modern architecture here and elsewhere.

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