The Identity of Contemporary Egyptian Architecture

Abstract

The research aims to find an Egyptian local architectural identity which has cultural, climatic and environmental relations with this society. Therefore, the research identifies and analyzes the types of the contemporary Egyptian architecture by dividing it into two directions. The first directions is the architecture that comes from the Egyptian environment such as reviving the old historical Architectural heritage by inspiring ideas and vocabularies from the Egyptian architectural heritage by reviving the Pharaoh style or different Islamic architectural styles, Also, many trials had appeared to go toward the local architecture which is connected to the local places and environment in order to conserve the local culture and to create a local architectural style by inspiring the local inherited architecture and taking from its vocabulary and symbols forms. The second direction is to go towards the western thoughts that depend on the western architecture as it is the source of the modern architectural thoughts, and also to benefit from the modern techniques and potentials in order to achieve the continuity between the past and the present. Also, there were some individual trials resulted an uncommon architecture depended on the personal potential of the architect himself to take out the architectural work from the common and to express a thing in his mind that represented a kind of thoughts privacy, then the non-local architecture The research resulted that designing trials must be done to establish Egyptian architectural style match with our culture and our environment and comes from our local environment.