Beyond Eurocentrism: Rethinking the Architectural Canon
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
23 February 2024
Role Curator, Organiser, Session Chair and Panellist
Curated and organised by Golnar Tajdar, this one-day symposium examined the influence of Euro-American architectural education on the development and interpretation of modern architecture in the Middle East and North Africa. Bringing together historians, architects and educators, the programme considered how architectural knowledge, educational approaches and ideas of modernity have circulated across different cultural contexts, while questioning the predominance of Eurocentric perspectives in architectural historiography.
The symposium was structured around three interconnected perspectives: historical, contemporary and institutional. Tajdar introduced the programme, chaired the Historical Perspective session and contributed as a panellist to the Institutional Perspective discussion.