"Keeping Cairo" at CCDC
Building Preservation and Heritage Conservation in Africa’s Largest City Friday, July 16, 12:00pm
AIA Central Virginia and CCDC will host an exciting brown-bag lunch lecture from Brian Carter Broadus, an American architectural historian and architect whose long career is devoted to the conservation of historic architecture, the rehabilitation of older buildings, teaching, public advocacy, sustainable design, and preservation law.
Broadus will be presenting his studies of city form and development, as well as the contributions to this work from the citizens of many countries, first among them those of Egypt itself, who share his devotion to the lesser-known cultural resources constituting Egyptian city history. He will pay special attention to Islamic-era Egyptian environmental design. Since the monuments in Cairo are urban ones, he attempts to bring global attention – and in turn, economic and social benefits – to the poorer quarters in which the monuments sit.
For more info or to RSVP, please contact Elizabeth Rhodes.
