• Archism-and-Innovation

    Egyptian history is rich with evidence of following the tradition as a cacred and also the freedom to create the new and the different. To avoid redundance, A link is added at the end of the article to Tradition and Variation by Alexander Badawy covering textual evidences on archism and Innovation in Egyptian architecture. ‘I…

  • Colours in Egypt: Material, Text, Production

    Method of study – Colours : Neshmt | greenish-blue Red White Blue How to read Egyptian colours I believe examining colors by their modern names is the wrong approach. I prefer to work with Egyptian colours while having the following in mind :1 What materials were the colour made of in ancient Egypt ? Things…

  • Doors

    “I was supervising the construction of the village of Qurna in Luxor when I asked Alaeddin Mustafa the craftsman from the village of Mahamid in the Aswan to undertake the decoration of one of the entrances to the houses himself as he wanted, so he worked on the top of the door hieroglyphic shapes representing…

  • Egyptian Architecture

    Lines of Egyptian Domestic Architecture Mulqaf (Ventilator) With an opening or two directed to the North, Mulqaf and multiple windows could have worked as a solution for providing a successful circulation of Air, especially in compact buildings For a more in-depth history please read Malqaf; origin-language-design Portico Mud Models since the middle kingdom have shown…

  • Exploring Windows in Ancient Egyptian Architecture

    Windows in ancient Egypt Mashrabiya as an Egyptian architectural element ”Drawings seem to corroborate this assumption concerning the large windows in the upper stories, some of which have closely grated shutters in their lower part. The upper part seems to consist of variegated mats hanging behind a widely open grating (Nebamun, model) or with a…