MANUFACTURING HERITAGE / CONSUMING TRADITION:
Development, Preservation and Tourism in the Age of Globalization
Cairo, Egypt—December 15-19, 1998
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1998
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM–REGISTRATION
Hotel Lobby
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM—OPENING SESSION
Grand Ballroom
Welcome and Opening Remarks
President Farouk Ismail
Cairo University, Egypt
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM—PLENARY PRESENTATION
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Dalila ElKerdany
Cairo University, Egypt
Architecture, Community and Culture in the Context of Globalization: An Argument Against Globalization
Abdelhalim I. Abdelhalim
Cairo University, Egypt
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:45 AM – 1:00 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Aly Gabr
Cairo University, Egypt
Gentrification and the Politics of Power, Capital, and Culture in an Emerging Jordanian Heritage Industry
Rami Farouk Daher
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Amman, Jordan
Jaisalmer in Jeopardy? Consensual Decision-Making and the Definition of Built “Heritage”
Azhar Tyabji
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Urban Redevelopment of Historic Cities in the Developing World: The Case of Lahore
Samia Rab
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.
Living in a World Heritage Site: Preservation Policies and Local History in Ouro Preto, Brazil
Leonardo Barci Castriota
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Creating Heritage in Honduras
Lena Mortensen
Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.
CONSTRUCTING TRADITION THROUGH DIFFERENCE
Aswan Room
Chair: Hisham Amr Bahgat
Cairo University, Egypt
Architecture of Heritage: Between the Image of the Self and the Expectations of the Other
Lobna Sherif
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
A Traditional Shape Packaged: On Pancasila Mosque of Indonesia
Gunawan Tjahjono
University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Banua to Banua: Shifting Models of the Perceived “Traditional” Torajan House in Indonesia
Chee-Kien Lai
Singapore
Colonial Landscape of Lucknow, India
Amita Sinha
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Image Making: A Market for Egyptian Tourism
Khaled Asfour
Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
PRESERVATION OF THE VERNACULAR BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Luxor Room
Chair: Shahdan Shabka
Cairo University, Egypt
Conservation, Tourism, and Traditional Societies: The Case of Qusier, Egypt
Ragaei M. Said A. Abdel-Fattah
Environmental Quality International, Cairo, Egypt
Surviving Tourism: Report from Amasya
William Bechhoefer
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Siwa: Cultural Meanings and the Quest for Authenticity
Mervat El-Shafie
Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
Amphibian Structures
Gladys Masey Martinez
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Question of Authenticity: Ideals and Realities
Barry G. Rowney
University of Adelaide, Australia
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
BREAK
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN DISCOURSES OF PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Donald Krueckeberg
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A.
Out of the Red: Re-Commodifying Eastern Europe’s Past
Michael Landzelius
Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
Institutionalization of Nostalgia: Heritage Associations in Beirut
Zeina Misk
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
The Landscape of Tourism and Popular Agency in Islamic Cairo: National Identities as Claims on Spaces
Paul Amar
New York University, New York, U.S.A.
Consuming Built Patrimony: Social Perspectives and Preservation Strategies in Modern Cairo
Alaa El-Habashi and Ihab Elzeyadi
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U.S.A.
INVOCATIONS OF TRADITION IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
Aswan Room
Chair: Soheir Zaki Hawas
Cairo University, Egypt
Creating an Architecture for the “Other”: Re-Interpreting a Vernacular Architectural Tradition
Joseph L. Aranha
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, U.S.A.
Urban Heritage, Alienation, and Cultural Authenticity: Cairo’s New Development
Galal Abada
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Reuse of the Vernacular Built Environment in Tourism Development Projects of Jordan
Leen A. Fakhoury
Jordanian Tourist Investment Company, Amman, Jordan
Tourism and Tourists and the Built Environment of Egypt in the Age of Globalization
Tarek Abu-Zekry and Ahmed O. El-Kholei
Zaqaziq University and Menofia University, Egypt
PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES AND BUILT FORM
Luxor Room
Chair: Paul Oliver
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, U.K.
Cultural Change and Urban Design: Women’s Privacy in Traditional and Modern Damascus
Kheir Al-Kodmany
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Heritage at Crossroads: The Architecture of the Gulf Revisited
Yasser Mansour and Zeinab Shafik
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE and Cairo University, Egypt
The Vanishing Joy of the Traditional Pasar in Javanese Small Towns
Widya Wijayanti
Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia
Lumber Houses, Social Transformation, and the Forms of the Past: Select Alaskan Eskimo Dwellings
Susan W. Fair
Shishmaref Native Corporation, Eagle River, U.S.A.
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
4 PM – 5:30 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN TRADITIONAL URBAN SETTINGS
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Basil Kamel
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Global Commands and Local Wishes: The Reconstruction of the Traditional Suqs in Beirut
Sofia Toufic Shwayri
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Modernization and Cultural Transformation: House Forms and Building Materials in Karimabad
Sarwat Viquar
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The Materialized Use of the Past: Gentrification Making Heritage Out of the Urban Built Environments
Ingrid Holmberg
Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
Modernism as Identity: Rio Cidade and the Aesthetization of Social Inequality
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
ECOLOGY, TOURISM, AND TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENTS
Aswan Room
Chair: Sahar Attia
Cairo University, Egypt
Eco-Tourism Resorts and Hotels: Al Maha Resort in the Dubai Desert: A Case Study
Azza Eleishe
United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, UAE
Tourism Facilities and Environmental Sustainable Tourism Development
Amr Elleithy
Cairo University, Egypt
The Impacts of Sustainable Tourism Development on the Red Sea Coastal Landscape
Mohammad H. Refaat
Cairo University, Egypt
Ecolodges: Meeting the Demand for Sustainable Tourism Development in Egypt
Ashraf Salama
Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND CULTURAL SURVIVAL
Luxor Room
Chair: Tarek Abu-Zekry
Zaqaziq University, Egypt
What’s Left When the Ore Runs Out Mate?
Christine Landorf
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Conservation Means to Land-Use Issues in South Sinai
Magdy El-Bastawisy
Suez Canal University, Port Said, Egypt
Transformations in Traditional Marketplaces in Fatimid Cairo
Ahmed Yousry and Hala Mekawy
Cairo University, Egypt
Building for Cultural Survival: The Case of Iraralai House/ Museum/ Classroom, Orchid Island
John K.C. Liu
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM—OFFICIAL OPENING RECEPTION
Cairo University
5:45 PM
Bus Pick-up at Hotel Sofitel Maadi Entrance
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONIES
Under the Auspices of the Conference Patron, Her Excellency Mrs. Mubarak
OPENING REMARKS
Cairo University Grand Ballroom
Dr. Farouk Ismail, President, Cairo University
Conference Guests:
Dr. Moufid Shehab
Minister of Higher Education
Mr. Farouk Hosni
Minister of Culture
Mr. Mohamad Soliman
Minister of Housing and New Communities
Mr. Mamdouh ElBeltagi
Minister of Tourism
Acknowledgements:
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Paul Bourdier
University of California, Berkeley
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Cairo University Hall
EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION HOSTED BY GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF PHYSICAL PLANNING
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Cairo University Grand Ballroom
CLASSICAL ARABIC MUSIC CONCERT
10:00 PM
Bus Pick-up for return to Hotel Sofitel Maadi
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1998
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: IDEOLOGY AND MYTH-MAKING
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Gunawan Tjahjono
University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Making the Tourist City: Notions of Civility in Nineteenth Century San Francisco
J. Philip Gruen
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Mayan Space Versus a Global Economy of Signification
Andrzej Piotrowski
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Tourism of Development and the Development of Tourism: Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Donald J. Watts
Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A.
The Role of Building Legislation in Heritage Preservation of Egyptian Contemporary Architecture
Rawia Ezzeldin Hammouda
El Mattaria University, Cairo, Egypt
CULTURE, CRAFT, AND TRADITION
Aswan Room
Chair: Howard Davis
University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A.
Enriched Frameworks
Stephannie Bartos
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Tourism in Kula as a Means to Preservation and Self-Sustenance
Cigdem Akkurt
Iowa State University, Ames, U.S.A.
A Cultural Analysis of Tourism and its Products in Turkey
Humanur Bagli
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
BUILT HERITAGE: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES
Luxor Room
Chair: Nadia Alhasani
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Preservation of Cultural Heritage Under the Climate of War and Civil Unrest: Herat, Afghanistan
Rafi Samizay
Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A.
Tourism and Cultural Heritage: A Swiss Perspective
Dieter Ackerknecht and Geoffrey Kenworthy
City of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Early Company Towns of the Virginias
D. Eugene Egger and William Rutkowski
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, U.S.A.
Abyaneh and Massuleh: The Two Vernacular Built Environments in Iran
Iraj Etessam
University of Tehran, Iran
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM
PLENARY SESSION: THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF TRADITION
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Learning to Consume: What is Heritage and When is it Traditional?
Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Memory without Monuments: Vernacular Architecture
Stanford Anderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Discussants
Dell Upton
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Salah E.A. Wahab
Cairo, Egypt
12:45 PM- 2:00 PM
BREAK
MEETING FOR IASTE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Menia Room
1:45 PM – 4 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: THE THEMING OF VERNACULAR SETTINGS
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Carol Martin Watts
Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A.
Image is Everything: The Development of the Negev Bedouin as a Tourist Attraction
Steven C. Dinero
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, U.S.A.
Architecture and the Production of Postcard Images: Tradition Versus Critical Regionalism in Curitiba
Clara E. Irazabal
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Manufacturing Natural Heritage: Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
Eric Higgs and Jennifer Cypher
University of Alberta, Edmonton, and York University, Toronto, Canada
Celebrating the American Small Town: What Kind of Sell-Out?
June Pauline Williamson
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A.
The “Night Zone” Storyline: Boat Quay, Clarke Quay and Robertson Quay
Heng Chye Kiang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TRADITIONAL: BETWEEN GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Aswan Room
Chair: Anne Hublin
School of Architecture, Paris Villemin, France
Conflict and Reconciliation: On the Cultural Dynamics in the Cairene Public Space
Omar Nagati
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Architectural Principles in the Age of Tourism
Desmond Hui
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Place versus Space: Global Forces and Local Realities
Basil Kamel
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
A Union of Town Plan, Building Form, Color and Landscape: Grain Towers in the Canadian Prairie
Anna Wegierska Mutin
Washington State University, Pullman, U.S.A.
Transformations: Gecekondu as Vernacular Architecture
Hande A. Birkalan
Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.
PRESERVATION OF BUILDING TYPES
Luxor Room
Chair: Sayed Ettouney
Cairo University, Egypt
Towers of Guangdong Province, China
Mui Ho
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
The Vernacular Farmhouses of the Vercors: Between the Urban and the Rural
Laurence Keith Loftin III and Jacqueline G. Victor
University of Colorado, Denver, U.S.A.
Historic Revitalization as a Tool for Tourist Attraction: El-Salamlek Palace Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt
Hisham Gabr
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, U.A.E.
Tourism and Changes in a Traditional Building in Iran – The Shrine
G. Hossein Memarian and M. Anwarul Islam
University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
On Preservation of a Countryhouse as Station for Automobiles
Nobuo Mitsuhashi and Nobuyoshi Fujimoto
Utsunomiya University, Japan
4:15 PM – 6:30 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
VERNACULAR SETS: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS PROP FOR STAGED EVENTS
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Donald Watts
Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A.
From “Ruins” to “Sights”: Archaeology as a Resource in Palmyra, Syria
Layla Al-Zubaidi
Free University, Berlin, U.S.A.
Arts Festivals in the Traditional Environment: The Vernacular Setting for Art and as Art
Carol Martin Watts
Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A.
“What Have They Done to the Old Homeplace?” Traditional Architecture in the Country Music Industry
Michael Ann Williams
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, U.S.A.
Building Hookipa
Spencer Leineweber
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.
A Native’s Heritage: Fabricated and Assembled
Nadia Alhasani and Frank Matero
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
TRADITION AS PROCESS AND PRACTICE
Aswan Room
Chair: Zakia Shafie
Cairo University, Egypt
A Spiritual Celebration of Cultural Heritage
Katharine E. Leigh and Abimbola Asojo
University of Oklahoma, Norman, U.S.A.
The Relevance of Traditional Process in Contemporary Architectural Education
Aly Assawee and Nabeel Elhady
Cairo University, Egypt
Kura: A Second Tradition
Hajo Neis
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
The Traditional: Producing the Book of Standards for Architecture Offices
Marwan Ghandour
American University in Beirut, Lebanon
Traditional Settlements and Urban Design Practice
Peter Bosselmann
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
SITES OF SIGHTS: MUSEUMS OF HERITAGE
Luxor Room
Chair: Michael Landzelius
Goteborg University, Sweden
Representing and Re-Presenting the Vernacular – The Open Air Museum
Paul Oliver
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, U.K.
Representations of Nubian Culture in Tourism in Aswan: The Village and the Museum
Elizabeth Smith
New York University, New York, U.S.A.
The Civil Rights Street Museum Project, Atlanta
Renee Kemp-Rotan and Leah Creque
City of Atlanta, U.S.A.
Transition from Space to Place: The Heritage Process in Open Air Museums in England
Antonia Noussia
University of Plymouth, Exeter, U.K.
An Archaeological Park for the Syrian Limestone Massif
Attilio Petruccioli
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
6:30 PM – 6:45 PM
COFFEE BREAK
6:45 PM – 8:00 PM—SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Grand Ballroom
On Islamic Cairo and the Making of the Virtual Cairo Video
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley
SCREENING OF Virtual Cairo, an IASTE video documentary produced for public television
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1998
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Nasamat Abdel Kader
Cairo University, Egypt
Paradoxes of Post-Colonial Preservation
Robert Bruegmann
University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A.
Private Property in Africa: Creation Stories of Economy, State, and Culture
Donald Krueckeberg
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A.
Tourism Encounters: Inter and Intra Cultural Conflicts and the World’s Largest Industry
Mike Robinson
University of Northumbria, Northumberland, U.K.
The Role of Social Movements in the Remaking of Touristic Cities: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Manuel Varela-Michel
Mexico City, Mexico
CONSERVATION, REHABILITATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION
Aswan Room
Chair: Dieter Ackerknecht
City of Zurich, Switzerland
Historic Preservation or Perversion?
Dina K. Shehayeb
Housing and Building Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
The Experience of Conservation of the Architectural Heritage in Palestine
Jihad Awad
An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Tourism, Monument Conservation, and Urban Rehabilitation
Ronald Lewcock
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Adapting Traditional Design Concepts for High Density Settlement Development
Mas Santosa
Institute of Technology Sepuluh, Surabaya, Indonesia
THE CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC IMAGES
Luxor Room
Chair: Jeffrey Cook
Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.
Reconstructing a Historic Image: Techniques and Process in Sharjah City
Ahmed M. Salah Ouf
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Understanding Tradition: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Preservation Efforts in Al’Marija, Sharjah
Yasser Elsheshtawy, U.A.E.
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Is There Room for Heritage Conservation in Hong Kong, a City of High Land Cost and Rapid Development?
David Lung
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Reviving Historic Beauty: The Conservation of Jimei School Village in Xiamen, China
Mei Qing
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM
PLENARY SESSION: NOSTALGIA AND THE MANUFACTURE OF HERITAGE
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Colonial Nostalgia and Cultures of Travel: Spaces of Constructed Visibility in Egypt, 1840-2000
Derek Gregory
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Heritage and Housing in Gurna
Timothy Mitchell
New York University, New York, U.S.A.
Discussants
Janet Abu-Lughod
New School for Social Research, New York, U.S.A.
Mohsen Barada
Cairo University, Egypt
1:00 PM – 6:30 PM
ISLAMIC CAIRO WALKING TOUR
Bus pick-up at 1 pm at Hotel Sofitel Maadi Entrance (box lunches will be served on board)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM—RECEPTION
Beit Harawi
Host: Culture Development Fund
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1998
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
INVOCATIONS OF ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM, AND RELIGION IN HERITAGE STRATEGIES
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Robert Mugerauer
University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
When Tradition Becomes Luxury
Rosemary Latter
Oxford Brookes University, Headington, U.K.
Raising the Stakes: Manufactured Heritage, Coast Salish Identity, and Casino Architecture
Caroline Swope
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
The Evolution of Building Traditions: A Look at Bali and Vermont
Sandra Vitzthum
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, U.S.A.
Chinese National Identity in Project: The Rebuilding of the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum in Huang Ling
Bruno Fayolle Lussac
Ecole d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, France
THE PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY OF PRESERVATION
Aswan Room
Chair: Ronald Lewcock
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Place, Visuality, and Kinesthetics: Traditional Experience of Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Central Australia
Michael Tawa
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Noah’s Ark Program: Preservation of the Historic Cultural Patrimony of the Communities Affected by the Ita Hydroelectric Plant
Maria Elisabeth Pereira Rego
Florianapolis, Brazil
Pedagogy and Patrimony: Designing for Tourism in World Heritage Sites
James P. Warfield
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Accessing our Heritage: Visitability and the Creation of Visitor-Friendly Sites
J.D. Harrison and K.J. Parker
National University of Singapore, Singapore
PRESERVED LANDSCAPES
Luxor Room
Chair: Dominique Bonnamour Lloyd
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
La Foce: The Re-Creation of the Painter’s Landscape in Southern Tuscany
Morna Livingston
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Spatial Patterning and Tourism on Mount Bromo, Indonesia
Endang Titi Sunarti Darjosanjoto and Frank E. Brown
University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
The Linear Urban Spaces and Paths in Historic Cairo
Soheir Zaki Hawas
Cairo University, Egypt
The Submersion of Daily Life – Nova Ponte, Brazil
Alicia Duarte Penna
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS: IDENTITY, HERITAGE, AND REPRESENTATION
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Morna Livingston
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, U.S.A.
Site and Citation: Guidebooks and the Tourist Gaze
Anne Bush
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
“The English Patient” Revisited
Heba Farouk Ahmed
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
An Architectural Portrait of Jerusalem: The Manipulation of Tradition in the Architecture of the British Mandate in Palestine
Ron Fuchs
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Remember the Palace: Different Gender Identities in Historical Memoirs of the Phaya-Thai Palace, Thailand
Vimalin Rujivacharakul
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
The “Rectification” of Documents of Architecture: The Case of Ouigour Architecture in Xinjiang
Jean-Paul Loubes
Ecole d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, France
INVOCATIONS OF TRADITION IN PEDAGOGY
Aswan Room
Chair: William Bechhoefer
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Hogan-House Prototypes for Persistence
Jeffrey Cook
Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.
History Telling Through Garden Design: A Design Process for a Public Garden in Port Said
Dalila ElKerdany
Cairo University, Egypt
Invocations of Tradition: The Recent Work of Charles Correa
Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
University of Liverpool, U.K.
Place-Making Through the Design of Building Enclosures
Dominique Bonnamour-Lloyd
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
A Tradition in Transition: Ali Tur in Guadeloupe, 1929-1937
Anne Hublin and Christian Galpin
School of Architecture, Paris Villemin, France, and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Guadeloupe
PLANNING FOR THE LIVING HERITAGE
Luxor Room
Chair: Mui Ho
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Traditional Versus Informal Design Process in Urban Housing Generation
Hisham Amr Bahgat and Aly Mohamed ElSawy
Cairo University, Egypt
Documenting the Living Heritage
Mohamed S. Khairy and Dina K. Shehayeb
Housing and Building Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
Global Forces, Local Trends, and Urban Design: Requalifying Places for Shopping and Tourism in Rio de Janeiro
Vicente del Rio
Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, and Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Integration of Historic Preservation and Urban Planning: Criteria for Al Abbasseya District
Sahar Attia and Shahdan Shabka
Cairo University, Egypt
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
BREAK
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
PLENARY SESSION: TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT: EGYPTIAN PERSPECTIVES
Grand Ballroom
Chair: Jean-Paul Bourdier
University of California, U.S.A.
Exploiting Architectural Heritage in Touristic Development: Cultural Disparity and Visual Preferences
Nasamat Abdel Kader and Sayed M. Ettouney
Cairo University, Egypt
Local Tourism and Regional Development in Egypt: The Northwest Coast
Donald P. Cole and Soraya Altorki
American University in Cairo, Egypt
DISCUSSANT
Khaled Asfour
Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
3 PM – 4:30 PM—SPECIAL PANELS AND WORKSHOPS
GLOBALIZATION, THE EMERGENCE OF INFORMATION SOCIETIES, AND PLACELESS TRADITIONS
Aswan Room
Chair: Robert Mugerauer
University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
Housing, Complexities of Tradition and Modernity
Ibrahim M.I. Al-But’hie
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Building, Aesthetics, and Technology
Akel Ismail Kahera
University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
Housing in the Age of Technology
Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj
Hallaj and Associates, Aleppo, Syria
Technological Openings to Each Other
Robert Mugerauer
University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
UPGRADING AND CONSERVATION OF CAIRO: CASE-STUDIES OF ZAMALEK
Luxor Room
Chair: Dalila ElKerdany
Cairo University, Egypt
Concept of Value: The Case of Zamalek
The Urban Development of Zamalek
Architectural Evolution of Zamalek: Periods/ Styles/ Architects
Sustainable Urban Development: Problems and Strategies
Urban Design as a Tool for Conservation and Upgrading
Maisa Mahmoud, Dalila ElKerdany, and Aly Gabr
Cairo University, Egypt
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
COFFEE BREAK
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM—FINAL PLENARY PANEL
Grand Ballroom
Chairs: Jean-Paul Bourdier and Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Commentators:
Janet Abu-Lughod
New School for Social Research, New York, U.S.A.
Dell Upton
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Discussants:
Stanford Anderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Derek Gregory
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Timothy Mitchell
New York University, New York, U.S.A.
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
NILE CRUISE RECEPTION
Host: Ministry of Tourism
Bus Pick-up at 6:30 pm at Hotel Sofitel Maadi Entrance