Photographs by George.
The city’s simulated monuments are made
to look artificial, in total defiance of their reality; the city is
an avatar of itself. By photographing from a helicopter using
a special lens and other filters chooses what one really likes.
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George’s interview published in the Dubai based Gulf News, August 2010: Architectural wonders can be a burden for businesses
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Despite the current generic icons of Dubai’s urbanism, the mental map of the city is about Islamic imagery. Dubai manifests the contemporary interpretation of Orientalism, sensual, spectacular, artificial, subliminal and above all contemporary and global. A
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“Dubai’s World Trade Centre is an elegant high-rise building. Buildings of that period [the 1970s] were clear statements of modernism, commissioned by the Ruler to reposition the city and look at the future, yet relating to their environment.”
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This rapid expansion of the city has inevitably created a new architectural phenomenon: individual high-rise blocks grouped together by virtue of proximity and with little or no surroundings create distinguished skylines.
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George has contributed to the With/Without publication by Bidoun
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Sharjah Biennial 8, 4 April – 4 June 2007
‘Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change’
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George has contributed to the Al Manakh publication by Archis Foundation
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The Superlative City
George has contributed to the publication The Superlative City Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century
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