Riyadh, Rewritten: A City of Shade, Courtyards, and Slow Time
Riyadh has never been a city at rest. From tribal camp to oil capital, from desert silence to the roar
At RIXARCH 2026 in Riga, I my lecture [LIV]-[IN], the Hyphen between housing and living, I spoke about the expansion of living beyond housing and the architectural question of public space.
The lecture explores how living developed from a single location housing into a multi-location practice where we use different places during different times of the day with the public realm as the connector. It looks into recent developments and how they affect that in between zone and concludes with proposals how the public realm of the future should be conceptualized.
RIXARCH is an annual conference, organized by RISEBA University in Riga
Riyadh has never been a city at rest. From tribal camp to oil capital, from desert silence to the roar
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