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Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide

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The first of its kind, a substantive guide to over 220 modern buildings in Cairo—and the basis of an exhibition at New York’s Center for Architecture entitled, “Cairo Modern”

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo’s ancient, medieval, and early-modern architectural heritage, the city’s modern architecture has to ...