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| Description | Cairo is home to many buildings built in the transitional styles that show the evolution from Art Deco to early Modernism, with heavy vertical and horizontal emphasis, simple ornamentation and concrete detailing, and pulled back corners that allowed for larger balconies. Constructed between World War I and the 1950s, these buildings show off the diversity of this style, which was imported from Europe, and, ironically, despite the push to decolonize the country in the mid-20th Century, continues to heavily influence most Egyptian architecture today. Gone are the indigenous styles of Islamic Old Cairo and the ancient monuments, the classical styles of the Greeks and Romans, and the colonial styles of the European empires and Ottomans. In its place is yet another stylistic movement that originated outside the country, and is the most commonly seen umbrella you can place most buildings built today in Egypt into, having displaced most local and indigenous styles of vernacular architecture, with local materials and motifs no longer being as common as they once were. Modernist planning has also been imported in the form of new suburban enclaves for the wealthy, which take aspects of the car dependency of American suburbs and the higher densities of European new towns and combines them into a hybrid form. This is a trend seen in most of the world since World War II, and doesn’t show any sign of letting up anytime soon. |
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| Source | El Manial Street, al-Qāhirah, CG, EGY |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States |
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