This publication outlines the output of student work in the ARCH 4980 Dissertation class of Spring 2020, at the American University in Cairo, led by Magda Mostafa.
ARCHITECTURE+ a philosophy:
Architecture is only powerful to the extent of its intersection with multiple domains. As an act of socio-spatial production, its efficacy- from the functional through the full spectrum of engagement to the philosophical- lies in how entrenched and layered those intersections are. The entanglements produced as a natural result of these intersections, if not mindfully deconstructed, and thoughtfully navigated, invariably produce one of two outcomes: architectures that have escaped the complexity of the process and divorced themselves from the socio-econo-ecolo-cultural-spatial context entirely, or architectures that have dissolved themselves so completely in the intersectional domains as to have lost boundary and definition. Neither of these processes exploits the intersectional strength of architecture which is to hold
