Hot Cities exhibition
What We Can Learn From Arab Metropoles
Tuwaiq Palace Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, © Rashid & Ahmed Bin Shabibb
Extremes have become the norm. Inordinate summer heat requires intelligent handling: the Arab world demonstrates possible solutions.
Research for Hot Cities, © Rashid & Ahmed Bin Shabib
Learning from others
The signs of climate change have long been perceptible in our world, setting enormous challenges for society. The exhibition Hot Cities: Lessons from Arab Architecture is, as the name suggests, a sort of model for dealing with heat in the context of architecture and urban planning.
Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum House, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, © Vitra Design Museum, © Rashid & Ahmed Bin Shabib, Photo: Andreas Sütterlin
Diverse media
The combination of three different media – architecture, literature and practice – provides possible answers to the question how we will be able to live in hot cities in the future. The display of architectural models brings us closer to the complexity in structural realization. Moreover, a library impressively conveys the architectural vocabulary of around 20 selected cities, while ideas can be exchanged in a colloquium.
Poster of the Exhibition Hot Cities, © Rashid & Ahmed Bin Shabib
Reworking old thought patterns
The Vitra Design Museum offers this stage for urban-planning examples with the central mission of demonstrating possible solutions to today’s problems in a combination of traditional and modern approaches. Although people in the Arab world have learned to live with extreme heat, we are still searching for suitable answers. In their lesson, curators Ahmed and Rashid bin Shabib of Dubai call for people to be open to future urban developments in our own world.
Exhibition: Hot Cities: Lessons from Arab Architecture
Exhibition venue: Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein (DE)
Exhibition dates: 29. April bis 5. November
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 10 am-6 pm
Further Information: design-museum.de
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