Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book explores the display of transnational architectural practices resulting in different notions of locality, cosmopolitanism, and modernity.

Edited by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Roberto Fabbri, this book presents a diverse and geographically inclusive authorship, which combines established and up-and-coming researchers in the fields of heritage studies, post-colonial urbanism, and architecture.

AGSIW hosted the launch of Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf with co-editors Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Roberto Fabbri as well as chapter authors Jumanah Abbas and Edward Nilsson. Huma Gupta, lecturer in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moderated the discussion.

The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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