The reconstruction of Bab Souiqa (old Tunis) 1980s
This is the first of a series of notes I'm going to write about a subject I've always wanted to write about: contemporary architecture in my home country Tunisia as an example of contemporary architecture in the Islamic world.
First, I must say something about architectural reviews in Tunisia. it's really sad that even though there are enough indications pointing towards some new trends in the Tunisian architetcural landscape very little has been written on it. It's even fair to say that we don't have what we might call a tradition of reviews on contemporary architecture; of course we can't include in such a category the very vague, mostly amateurist, and, after all, very few essays that are being published from time to time in the various local magazines and newspapares. Here something seems to be clear enough so that it's really hard to miss it: if there are any specialists in this field (that is the field of the history of contemporary architecture in Tunisia, and I know there are really very few people who can be rightly considered so) they don't write critic reviews... and that's why we don't have "architetcural criticism"... as by the way it's almost difficult to say that we have "art criticism" in Tunisia... but that's another subject I'll talk about it another time.
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This is the first of a series of notes I'm going to write about a subject I've always wanted to write about: contemporary architecture in my home country Tunisia as an example of contemporary architecture in the Islamic world.
First, I must say something about architectural reviews in Tunisia. it's really sad that even though there are enough indications pointing towards some new trends in the Tunisian architetcural landscape very little has been written on it. It's even fair to say that we don't have what we might call a tradition of reviews on contemporary architecture; of course we can't include in such a category the very vague, mostly amateurist, and, after all, very few essays that are being published from time to time in the various local magazines and newspapares. Here something seems to be clear enough so that it's really hard to miss it: if there are any specialists in this field (that is the field of the history of contemporary architecture in Tunisia, and I know there are really very few people who can be rightly considered so) they don't write critic reviews... and that's why we don't have "architetcural criticism"... as by the way it's almost difficult to say that we have "art criticism" in Tunisia... but that's another subject I'll talk about it another time.
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