Pressure Cooker Recipes - An Achitectural Cookbook

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Pressure Cooker Recipes - An Achitectural Cookbook

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Official catalog of the National Pavilion UAE at the 19th Biennale of Architecture in Venice.

Co-published with National Pavilion UAE.

Cooking and architecture have a lot in common. Both start with a set of ingredients that are combined to create a whole; one that is often greater than the sum of its parts. Conceived as a publication for this year’s National Pavilion UAE’s pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2025, this architectural cookbook features recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic. It showcases a multitude of responses to a curated selection of key ingredients, providing creative, flavorful, and accessible ways to reflect on food production in a harsh desert climate such as the UAE’s.

Edited by Azza Aboualam

Contents: 7 hand-bound booklets

Dimensions: 22 × 16 × 7 cm
Weight: 0.5 kg
Pages: 316 pages
Language: English, Arabic
Publisher: Kaph Books x National Pavilion UAE
ISBN: 978-614-8035-94-4
Published in May 2025
Softcover

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Azza Aboualam is an Emirati architect and curator of the National Pavilion United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2025. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE, and a Co-founder and Director of Research at Holesum Studio, an interdisciplinary architecture and design practice based between New York, US, and Sharjah, UAE. In 2021, she co-founded the studio a few years after graduating from the Yale School of Architecture. Her scholarly interests include the intersection of memory, architecture, and society in the Middle East and North Africa. Aboualam worked with the UAE Ministry of Culture’s Architecture Initiative, and her field research, sketches, and writing were published in the book In Search of Spaces of Coexistence: An Architect’s Journey (2019), edited by Dr. Alamira Reem Al Hashimi and Adina Hempel. She also contributed research to Building Sharjah (2021), edited by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Todd Reisz, and Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (2020), written by Todd Reisz. While working in Sharjah’s Department of Public Works, Aboualam managed the design and construction of large-scale projects such as the Aga Khan Award–winning Wasit Wetland Center. In 2014, Aboualam was a Venice Intern at the National Pavilion UAE’s debut participation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with the exhibition Lest We Forget: Structures of Memory in the UAE, curated by Dr. Michele Bambling.

Azza Aboualam is an Emirati architect and curator of the National Pavilion United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2025. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE, and a Co-founder and Director of Research at Holesum Studio, an interdisciplinary architecture and design practice based between New York, US, and Sharjah, UAE. In 2021, she co-founded the studio a few years after graduating from the Yale School of Architecture. Her scholarly interests include the intersection of memory, architecture, and society in the Middle East and North Africa. Aboualam worked with the UAE Ministry of Culture’s Architecture Initiative, and her field research, sketches, and writing were published in the book In Search of Spaces of Coexistence: An Architect’s Journey (2019), edited by Dr. Alamira Reem Al Hashimi and Adina Hempel. She also contributed research to Building Sharjah (2021), edited by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Todd Reisz, and Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (2020), written by Todd Reisz. While working in Sharjah’s Department of Public Works, Aboualam managed the design and construction of large-scale projects such as the Aga Khan Award–winning Wasit Wetland Center. In 2014, Aboualam was a Venice Intern at the National Pavilion UAE’s debut participation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with the exhibition Lest We Forget: Structures of Memory in the UAE, curated by Dr. Michele Bambling.

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