My Work in Architecture and Design through the Graphic Art of Representation

Salema Idris Ahmed Announcement
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Urban Design and Planning, Urban History / Studies

 

The seventh in a series of ten public events interrogating how architecture, planning and contemporary creativity enhance and affect both quality of life and sustainability in a range of Muslim contexts, co-produced by Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and held  in the iconic Aga Khan Centre

Ahmad Hamid: As the métier develops further on circumferences that are more geared to the swiftness of digital production, my work does still hold true to the canons of making architecture and design at their very centre. These canons are not primarily geared to the production time frame but respect it. We have to understand that design is a time-optimised discipline; time spent on representing the edifice or object through all arts (drawing, sketching, colouring, painting, texturising and modelling) with all its varieties is needed for ideas to mature during all such phases. Gestation is not an idiom that we do consider while we speak about the digital production of architecture or design idea; it is, however, still important. While the swiftness and spontaneity of the sketch can be stimulating enough to create an avalanche of ideas, the art of representation involved in communicating such ideas is where editing and suggestive eliminations take place, so that the design and its artwork are one expression of a ‘gesamtkunstwerke’. I am grateful that my work is still done within the artisanal studio culture with links to further progress the production digitally wherever it is needed. The presentation will include a variety of images concerned with the above, forming a repository archive of an extensive artwork done by my collaborators and myself as a means to bond the ideas within my designs to enhance our common humanity.

Speaker
Ahmad Hamid
 is an Egyptian architect who, as a young professional collaborated with Hassan Fathy between 1978 and 1985, in the Institute for Appropriate Technology. Hamid’s architecture firm designs thought-provoking projects for diverse parts of the world. He has taught at various architecture departments in Cairo, including the American University, and served on numerous international architectural juries. Hamid was awarded a Fulbright Design study grant at Pratt Institute in 2006, the Frank G Wisner Award in 2007, the Nadia Niazy Mostafa Award in 2010, and The World Architecture Award in 2010. The American University Media Design Award 2011, and again The Word Architecture Award in 2013.

Time and Venue
Thursday 7 March 2019, 18.00-19.30
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre, 
10 Handyside Street, 
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This event is free but booking is essential: 
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Contact Information

 

Layal Mohammad

Coordinator, Marketing, Communications and Professional Programmes

Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

The Aga Khan University (International)

Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN

Contact Email
layal.n.mohammad@aku.edu