Review: Exhibition #1.
Changing trends in architecture through 29 years of advancement in the United Arab Emirates University: (NB. This has been published)
A photographic exhibition by Khalid Mohiuddin in The UAE University Social Club (11th – 13th Sept. 2005)
The exhibition of photographs by architect Khalid Mohiuddin, from the University’s Department of Architectural Engineering, currently on display at the Al Multaqa Building in the Islamic Institute, represents a survey of the buildings on the five sites of the United Arab Emirates University, in the city of Al Ain in the University’s 29 year history.
Beginning with a photograph of the father of the nation, Baba Sheikh Zayed approving the plans for the University to be constructed in the garden city of Al Ain, in 1974, Khalid Mohiuddin, an architect here at the University, takes us through a series of fine colour photos, from the University’s beginnings to the present day.
A photograph of the mosaic of Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Khalifa, recently put together by the female students of the University, greets the visitor upon entering the Multaqa Building.
The life-sized version of the mosaic recently entered into record books as the largest of its kind anywhere in the world.
Under Al Ain’s changelessly blue skies, Khalid’s beautifully taken photos give male students the opportunity to see buildings on the Female Campus, and vice versa.
They can see sports halls, food courts, lecture theatres, gymnasiums that double as examination centres, mosques and minarets, and plush marble and glass entrance halls, as well as features of architectural importance like patterned glass domes, stairwells, and windows looking out over green lawns and covered car parks with numbered spaces.
The progress made at the University also represents a microcosm of the giant steps taken in the whole country, which has emerged as a modern country in less than two generations. The father of the nation, Sheikh Zayed, would have enjoyed Khalid’s exhibition illustrating the great leaps taken in the creation of his vision since he first approved the plans more than thirty years ago.
Robert L. Fielding
A photographic exhibition by Khalid Mohiuddin in The UAE University Social Club (11th – 13th Sept. 2005)
The exhibition of photographs by architect Khalid Mohiuddin, from the University’s Department of Architectural Engineering, currently on display at the Al Multaqa Building in the Islamic Institute, represents a survey of the buildings on the five sites of the United Arab Emirates University, in the city of Al Ain in the University’s 29 year history.
Beginning with a photograph of the father of the nation, Baba Sheikh Zayed approving the plans for the University to be constructed in the garden city of Al Ain, in 1974, Khalid Mohiuddin, an architect here at the University, takes us through a series of fine colour photos, from the University’s beginnings to the present day.
A photograph of the mosaic of Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Khalifa, recently put together by the female students of the University, greets the visitor upon entering the Multaqa Building.
The life-sized version of the mosaic recently entered into record books as the largest of its kind anywhere in the world.
Under Al Ain’s changelessly blue skies, Khalid’s beautifully taken photos give male students the opportunity to see buildings on the Female Campus, and vice versa.
They can see sports halls, food courts, lecture theatres, gymnasiums that double as examination centres, mosques and minarets, and plush marble and glass entrance halls, as well as features of architectural importance like patterned glass domes, stairwells, and windows looking out over green lawns and covered car parks with numbered spaces.
The progress made at the University also represents a microcosm of the giant steps taken in the whole country, which has emerged as a modern country in less than two generations. The father of the nation, Sheikh Zayed, would have enjoyed Khalid’s exhibition illustrating the great leaps taken in the creation of his vision since he first approved the plans more than thirty years ago.
Robert L. Fielding
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