Non-Urban
History Book Launch

Book launch for Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History, by Ali Karimi and Hamed Bukhamseen of Civil Architecture. The book revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. Ali Karimi and Hamed Bukhamseen discuss it with moderator George Massoud of Material Cultures, followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing with the authors. The conversation examines how the oil economy's narrative has overwritten older traditions of landscape and territory, and traces an alternative genealogy through pre-oil planning, from desert kites and fish traps to water channels, alongside geology, agriculture, mariculture and seasonality. Admission is free; places can be reserved on the organiser's website.