Type: Tour
Title: Architecture of Manama Waterfront
Date: 4 February 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Age: +16
Meeting Point: Post Office Museum
Registration Fees: BD/5 per person
This tour will look at a series of case studies that articulate the changes in architectural and urban form from pre-independence Bahrain to the end of the first decade after independence. After that, they will visit the Chamber of Commerce, Bab Al Bahrain, Manama Municipality and Bahrain Hotel. These are not the only examples, but will be the stops for the tour. The aim of the tour is to understand the relationship between architectural symbols, facade design, and the idea of a waterfront as a face for a new nation.
Ali Ismail Karimi is an architect whose work explores public space, ecology, and the extractive landscapes of the Middle East. He is the co-founder of Civil Architecture, an architecture office based in Manama and Kuwait City. Civil Architecture's work has been shown at the Sharjah Architecture Triennale, Oslo Triennale, Seoul Biennale and Expo 2020. In 2016, alongside Hamed Bukhamseen, he curated the Kuwait Pavilion titled “Between East and West: A Gulf” at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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