Nezar AlsayyadTraditions
The "Real", the Hyper, and the Virtual In the Built Environment
Nezar AlSayyad, architect, urban historian, and public intellectual, is a Professor of Architecture and Planning and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author and editor of many books including Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition (1989); Cities and Caliphs (1991); Forms and Dominance (1992); Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage (2001); Hybrid Urbanism (2001); The End of Tradition? (2004); Making Cairo Medieval (2005); Cinematic Urbanism (2006); The Fundamentalist City? (2010); and Cairo: Histories of a City (2011). In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) of which he is President, and served as Editor of its journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR).
Preamble: Studying Tradition in the Built Environment 1. The Form of
Dwellings: A Lens on Tradition 2. Problematizing Tradition in the Built
Environment 3. Conceptualizing Tradition and Modernity 4. Tradition and the
Vernacular 5. Colonialism, Identity, and Tradition 6. Tradition,
Nation-State, and the Built Environment 7. Tradition and Tourism 8.
Simulation and Hyperreality: Spectacle in Traditional Built Environments 9.
Tradition and Authenticity 10. Tradition and Virtuality
