Assistant professor of Architecture at Kuwait University
A member of Kuwait Sadu Society in the preservation Group
Research paper Title
Mosque as a Public Square in Kuwait
Personal Biography
Aminah Alkanderi is a Sadu weaver and an Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture at Kuwait University and a regional fellow at the MEC at UPENN. As an architect, her work explores questions of Arab modernity, translation, desert environment, Gulf oil cities, and local building crafts. Her research investigates the role of Arab planner-architects in defining the urban built environment in the post oil Arabian Peninsula and the emerging of a discourse on planning-architecture as well as the disappearance of the desert building crafts.
Dr. Alkanderi has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Kuwait University, a master’s degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University, and a doctoral degree in History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
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