Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
M1
Siwelile Mathenjwa
M1
Siwelile Mathenjwa
M1
Siwelile Mathenjwa
M1
Siwelile Mathenjwa
Resources
Websites:
• Ghilles, F. 2019. China’s Deep Pockets in Egypt.
• Greenhouse, E. 2013. Treasures in the wall.
• Kingsley, P. 2015. A new New Cairo: Egypt plans £30bn purpose-built capital in desert.
• Keeton, R & Provoost, M. 2019.. New Cities in the sand: Egypts dream to conquer the desert.
• MENA. 2019. China’s BRI boosts Egypt’s development via massive infrastructure projects: Xinhua.
• Moore, S. 2019.
• Michaelson, R. 2018. Cairo has started to become ugly.
• Unknown Author, Unknown Date. Wedian: Cairo’s new administrative capital.
Egypt:
• Egyptian feminist
• Nawaal El Saadawi
• Sameera Moussa: Egyptian Scientist
General Resources/Blogs
Architectural Sites:
• Bartlett Kiosk
• BLDG Blog
• Campus in camps
• Mass Context
• KoozArch
• BLANK Space
• SuperColossal
• ArchTalks
• RIBA President Medals
• ArchiPRIX
• American University of Cairo- Architecture Department
Technology & Making Sites:
• MIT Media Lab
• Interactive Architecture Lab
• Make Magazine
• TMRW Gallery
Ecological/Biological:
• Exploration
• Neri Oxman works
Installations/Projects of Interest:
• Paris Opera Ballet adaption of Safran Foer, J. 2010. Tree of Codes. Visual Edition.
• Hussein Chalayan — Gravity Fatigue at Sadler Wells, London.
• Do Ho Suh. 2015. Bridging Home. London.
• Do Ho Suh. The Passage/s. London.
• DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021).2019. at Chicago Architecture Biennial.
• An evening with Leri Price and Khaled Khalifa.
• Evidence, Activism, And The Law In The Age Of Post-Truth. 2017.
• Le Terriotoire des Sens
• Are We Human? 3rd Instanbul Design Biennial
