Curator: Mohamed Gohar

Supported by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille, the French Institute in Egypt and the Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.

“Alexandria-Marseille, Crossed Perspectives” is an exchange and cooperation project between the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille, Alexandria University’s Architecture-Engineering Department, and the Department of French Language and Literature – Faculty of Letters, with the participation of Mohamed Gohar in Alexandria and the GR13 guide office in Marseille.

This project focuses on the promotion and valuing of urban centers in the Mediterranean, notably their architectural heritage.

Exchanges between the two universities aim to identify and promote notable buildings in their context, work with civil society actors for the discovery of ancient 20th-century heritage, and develop rehabilitation projects of the existing by placing the human at the heart of architectural commitments. The most evident results from these crossed perspectives will be presented in the exhibition “Alexandria-Marseille, Crossed Perspectives” at the French Institute in Egypt in Alexandria, from October 2nd-20th, 2022.

On the occasion of COP27, this exhibition is an invitation to discover the possible mutations of our cities and our uses in the face of major societal and climate challenges, as well as the ambitions of a young emerging generation that gives itself the means to think about and act on the improvement of our societies and living environment, while preserving the existing and the specificities of the Mediterranean’s plural societies.

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