TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF NON-URBAN HISTORY

In contrast to the mainstream narrative of oil economies, real estate development, and territories of extraction in the Arabian Gulf, this project beautifully illustrates the tradition of landscape forms and lines implemented to support a collective living infrastructure. The project acknowledges previous relationships to its territory, like the qanat water system, and argues that the Gulf's cities can be traced back to sensible practices for sustaining life beyond the recent decades' boom of oil economies, characterized by the Western imperative of economic growth.