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Hussam Dakkak, The Architect Archivist
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This weeks conversation is with architect and teacher Hussam Dakkak.
Hussam has been the founder and program director of the AA Jeddah Visiting School since 2015, which critically archives and studies Makkah, a city sacred to all Muslims and home to the holiest site in Islam, the Ka'aba. A historian and archivist, Hussam's work is political and sometimes subversive.
He is a partner at Studio Bound, a design collaborative based between London and Saudi, and holds a masters in architecture from the Architectural Association in London. Most recently, Hussam curated the Saudi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Hussam gives Open/Ended an inside view into his Makkah project, his process of archiving social histories through research and storytelling, and much more. 📜✨⚒️
We hope you enjoy this conversation 💥