Shepheard’s of Cairo
The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual material on the subject. Thanks to the recent discovery of a cache of documents, this notable gap in the study of belle époque architecture in Egypt has been filled; in addition, the book offers new perspectives on to the tradition of grand hotels and hotel architecture in general.
The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual material on the subject. Thanks to the recent discovery of a cache of documents, this notable gap in the study of belle époque architecture in Egypt has been filled; in addition, the book offers new perspectives on to the tradition of grand hotels and hotel architecture in general.
| Autor: | Ibrahim, Tarek |
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| ISBN: | 9783954903689 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 120 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Reichert, L |
| Veröffentlicht: | 13.12.2019 |
| Untertitel: | The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel |
| Schlagworte: | Archäologie Ethnologie. Sozialwissenschaften Geschichte Hotel Kulturgeographie Kulturwissenschaft MRF Ägypten Ägypter Ägyptisch |
Tarek Ibrahim (born 1978) received his BA in art history from New York University in 2000 and his M Arch at Columbia University and Parsons the New School for Design in 2008. He moved to Berlin shortly thereafter, where he worked for several years as a practicing architect, most notably at the firm of Sauerbruch Hutton, before returning to academia in 2012. He received his Master’s in art and architectural history from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2016. Mr. Ibrahim is currently a research associate in the Department for Strategy, Coordination and International Affairs of the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, the largest cultural project in Berlin, opening at the end of 2020. In addition, he is writing his PhD on the life and work of the German architect Johann Adam Rennebaum as a mirror of - and a window onto - the German expatriate community in Egypt around 1900.