Cairo Modern Celebrates Egyptian Modernism and Raises the Alarm for Its Future

On view at the Center for Architecture in New York City, the exhibition features 20 projects in Cairo and a warning about the threatened future of Egypt’s Modernist heritage.

Cairo Modern, a new exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York, features 20 demolished, extant, and proposed projects in Cairo dating from the 1930s to the 1970s and also shines a light on the wrecking ball-threatening Modern architecture here and elsewhere.

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Cite: Jane Levere. "Cairo Modern Celebrates Egyptian Modernism and Raises the Alarm for Its Future" 11 Nov 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/971795/cairo-modern-celebrates-egyptian-modernism-and-raises-the-alarm-for-its-future> ISSN 0719-8884

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