TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF NON-URBAN HISTORY

In contrast to the dominant narrative of oil economies, real estate development, and extractive territories in the Arabian Gulf, this project beautifully illustrates the tradition of landscape forms and lines applied to support an infrastructure of collective life. The project recognizes past relationships with its territory, such as the qanat water system, and argues that the Gulf cities harken back to sensible practices for sustaining life beyond the decades-long boom in oil economies characterized by the Western imperative. of economic growth.