Call for Papers - Issue 02: I.M. Pei in Cairo

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The PAX Monographs editorial team is pleased to announce the second issue in the series: I.M. PEI in CAIRO.

For the second issue we look into the narratives around I.M. Pei and his work by situating the architect and his international language of pyramids, ziggurats and pharaonic buildings in their place of origin: Egypt. Pei in Cairo examines the readings of these forms and the architect’s career once it becomes contextual in a place where they may be read as local rather than as part of a repertoire of international monumentality. Situating Pei in Cairo - the ‘Mother of the World’ - asks what context, monumentality and heritage mean for the built environment today.

Abstract Submissions: (250-350 word abstract required; drawings or sketches welcome)

Abstracts Due: November 30th, 2021.

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PAX Monographs is a 10 issue series which reconceptualizes the architecture monograph from a retrospective exercise into a projective assertion, and in doing so proposes a productive reading of history. By pairing past architects with contemporary cities, the publication translates seminal work in unintended contexts to question the critical relationship between architecture and its cultural setting, offering potential answers in the form of new projects. By examining one through the guise of the other, we claim that a richer reading of both is uncovered.

The publication will revisit seemingly definitive bodies of knowledge to challenge their immutability within the discipline, creating both an archive of existing reference projects, and a collection of new work that can serve as a platform for future work.

PAX Monographs places history not as a distant reference, but a generative tool, and in doing so invites curiosity about buildings, cities, and ideas.

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• Title

  Call for Papers - Issue 02: I.M. Pei in Cairo

• Type

  Call for Submissions

• Organizers

  PAX Monographs

• Submission Deadline

  November 30, 2021 08:37 AM

• Price

  Free