About Us
Samir al-Kordy
About
Samir El Kordy is an architect based in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the Architectural Department in Cairo University. Samir El Kordy developed work in a wide spectrum of fields such as object design, research, architecture, urban design, and art exhibition design. He has worked for OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. In Cairo, El Kordy has realized a number of projects and has collaborated with CDC/Abdel Halim Ibrahim in major architectural initiatives in Egypt and the Arab Region. His practice includes a range of realized architectural and urban, theoretical, research-based projects in New York, Paris, Munich, London, Rotterdam, Saint Louis, Saint Petersburg, Dubai, Ibb, Riyadh and Cairo. He was the design architect for the exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich “The Future of Tradition and The Tradition of Future” 2010-2011.
Workshops
Arts in the City: Marks and Claims
This module explores imprints of the art(s) in shaping urban social-cultural landscapes. Participants will examine the power dynamics of the social and the political as they are narrated in realms and levels of the official, the subversive, the planned, the improvised, the individual, the collective, the imagined and the illusory. They will engage with the notion of public accessibility of art, while exploring charged pockets within the city that are not necessarily public or accessible. The module also investigates how artistic approaches and cultural interventions interpret placemaking policies and ambitions, as well as how they respond to city representation across various mediums and diverse cultural and contemporary curatorial practices.