Date & Time: Wednesday, April 9th, at 7 pm
Speakers: Dr. Péter Tamás Nagy – Heritage & Architecture Interpretation Specialist, Qatar Museums
Venue: National Museum of Qatar Auditorium
Location Map: NMoQ
Synopsis:
Following Qatar’s oil boom in the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented variety of architectural and decorative modes proliferated in Doha. My talk will focus on a group of palaces – and primarily on their ornamentation – that constituted a local reiteration of the global trend of Art Deco. After introducing a few key examples, I shall provide an explanation of their existence in Qatar and insert them within the global trend of modern architecture. In particular, my talk will indicate how tracing ornaments can account for otherwise little-known traces of migration across the Indian Ocean.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Péter Tamás Nagy is an art historian of the Islamic world with a background in Arabic textual sources. Most of his research has focused on heritage architecture in Morocco. Apart from that, Dr. Péter is equally interested in the modern discovery and reception of Islamic architecture, including how buildings were studied, perceived, and occasionally imitated in Europe. In his current job in Doha, he investigates the architectural heritage in Qatar, focusing on royal palaces built in the twentieth century.
