05/25: Indigenous House

In 1930 the French government celebrated the French Algerian Centennial, marking 100 years of colonial occupation. As part of the event, architect Leon Claro designed the Indigenous House of the Centennial based on a standardized version of the courtyard house found in the Casbah of Algiers. This description is from Dr. Zeynep Celik from her... Continue Reading →

May 25, 2014 0

05/24: After Amnesia and Colonial Interventions

This is the last of three posts of a review of the book After Amnesia: Learning from the Islamic Mediterranean Urban Fabric Colonial interventions receive surprisingly abbreviated attention in After Amnesia's analysis. This is not to say that the role of colonization had been marginalized, nor is it to say the costs of such... Continue Reading →

May 24, 2014 0

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