Cairo Dovecotes as Urban Suprastructures

Paulina Bitrán

doi:10.4067/S0717-69962023000200146

ARQ (Aug 2023)

Cairo Dovecotes as Urban Suprastructures

Paulina Bitrán

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Paulina Bitrán: Architect and master in Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2017. She has worked for the past five years as an independent researcher in projects related to art, museography, and archaeology. Among them, the installation and production work for archaeological exhibitions at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, is worth mentioning. She is currently working in the production of a book on the Suprematist art of Kazimir Malevich and its influence on architecture, in collaboration with architect Pedro Alonso, which is scheduled to be published by MIT Press in November 2024.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-69962023000200146
Journal volume & issue: no. 114
pp. 146 – 155

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Paulina Bitrán reflects on the relationship between humans and more-than-humans in the dovecotes of Cairo, “suprastructures” that function above the city’s skyline.

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ISSN: 0716-0852 (Print); 0717-6996 (Online)
Publisher: Ediciones ARQ
Country of publisher: Chile
LCC subjects: Fine Arts: Architecture
Website: https://edicionesarq.com/ARQ-Journal

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