Civil Architecture - Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History

This book by Civil Architecture revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. It explores instances of pre-oil planning, from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context. Founded by Ali Ismail Karimi and Hamed Bukhamseen, Civil Architecture's work asks what it means to produce architecture in a decidedly un-civil time, presenting a new civic character for a global condition. The practice is known for their provocative works offering an alternate future for a nascent Middle East. With a foreword by Rania Ghosn and an afterword by Ahmad Makia.