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Zawia [ Zawia is an English & Arabic publication & collaborative events on architecture, design & Urbanism ] www.zawia.me

[Zawia is the point in which one-line stops to change its direction and path]
[ZAWIA (Angle or ‘Corner’); is a geometrical form where two rays meet at a vertex.]
[ZAWIA is also a historical building typology from the Arab Islamic era, originally referring to a corner used for gathering and general education in small mosques with no minaret or ‘minbar’. The act of ZAWIA, in Arabic (inzewa’), refers to the action of gathering and grouping of people in a learning circle.]

Zawia Picks: My thoughts on the smart city by Rem Koolhaas http://wp.me/p56anR-7x
26/11/2014

Zawia Picks: My thoughts on the smart city by Rem Koolhaas http://wp.me/p56anR-7x

"IF MAYORS RULED THE WORLD" Read the full article:

03/11/2014

The expansion of built up urban land in Cairo, 1800 - 2000. Prepared for the NYU Stern Urbanization Project using data compiled by Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent...

Zawia Picks: Architecture, Sacred Space and the Challenge of the Modern. By Paul Goldberger http://wp.me/p56anR-7t
19/10/2014

Zawia Picks: Architecture, Sacred Space and the Challenge of the Modern. By Paul Goldberger http://wp.me/p56anR-7t

"[...] Let me go beyond this to pose a deeper question, which is whether architecture can in itself actually create the sacred in the first place. Maybe we should ask whether the users of a building and their activities do—in other words, do we confer the quality of sanctity upon spaces, or do certain spaces confer sanctity upon us? Perhaps what is sacred is simply what we choose to sanctify. [...]"

11/10/2014
ZAWIA MOVED TO THE TEMPORARY WEBSITE www.zawia.me, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS AND EMAIL ADDRESS FROM THE CONTACT PAGE ...
03/10/2014

ZAWIA MOVED TO THE TEMPORARY WEBSITE www.zawia.me, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS AND EMAIL ADDRESS FROM THE CONTACT PAGE http://zawia.me/contact-us/

[ Zawia is an English & Arabic publication & collaborative events on architecture, design & Urbanism ]

02/10/2014

Retweeted The New York Times ():

The Saudis have bulldozed centuries of beauty and diversity in Islam's holiest city http://t.co/TymEaQVMXt via

Zawia Picks: The Destruction of Mecca. By Ziauddin Sardar http://wp.me/p56anR-7a
02/10/2014

Zawia Picks: The Destruction of Mecca. By Ziauddin Sardar http://wp.me/p56anR-7a

via The New York Times "[...] The dominant architectural site in the city is not the Sacred Mosque, where the Kaaba, the symbolic focus of Muslims everywhere, is. It is the obnoxious Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel, which, at 1,972 feet, is among the world’s tallest buildings [...]" The upcoming volume zawia #02:Sacred posed few questions on this theme: "[...] Completely neutral city spaces are instantaneously transformed into ‘Sacred’ through projected meanings of holiness for a certain culture or society. [ 63 more words. ]

Zawia in Beijing! http://wp.me/p56anR-76
01/10/2014

Zawia in Beijing! http://wp.me/p56anR-76

Read Zawia if you are in Beijing! Zawia is taking part of the Archizines world tour and Beijing Design week 2014 until the 3rd of October. Details of the event on facebook. Archizines celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing in recent years. The exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone, brings together 100 fanzines, magazines and journals from over 20 countries around the world.

Read Zawia if you are in Beijing! Zawia is taking part of the Archizines world tour, this time in Beijing China.
01/10/2014

Read Zawia if you are in Beijing! Zawia is taking part of the Archizines world tour, this time in Beijing China.

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