Ramses Wissa Wassef Arts Centre

Location: Giza, Egypt (North Africa)
Architect: Ramses Wissa Wassef
Client: Ramses Wissa Wassef, his family and the community weavers
Completed: 1974
To download the resources below, you can click on the links or right-click
and select 'Save target as':
Ramses Wissa Wassef Arts Centre Project Brief

Near the pyramids at Giza, the centre was founded in the early 1950s by the late architect Ramses Wissa Wassef as a weaving school. It has since evolved to comprise workshops and showrooms, a pottery and sculpture museum, houses and farm buildings, constructed entirely of mud brick. For Wissa Wassef, vaulted and domed mud brick structures represented something quintessentially Egyptian as these forms had been adopted in turn by Paranoiac, Coptic and Islamic civilisations. The choice of this traditional technology also reflected his desire to transmit the values of handicraft to succeeding generations in a rapidly industrialising country.

1983 Award Recipients

Award Home

Background Information

Eligibility Criteria

Submission Procedures

Calendar

Review and Selection Procedures

Press: Press Releases, Speeches, Podcasts

Project Locations

All Award Cycles

AKAA 1983 Resources

Master Jury

Master Jury Statement

Steering Committee

Award Recipients

Other 1983 Cycle Recipients

Azem Palace

Darb Qirmiz Quarter

Great Mosque of Niono

Hafsia Quarter I

Hajj Terminal

Nail Çakirhan Residence

Residence Andalous

Sherefudin's White Mosque

Tanjong Jara Beach Hotel

Tomb of Shah Rukn-i-'Alam