“this is the advice of the loving one;
let him, the heart be touching you:
Love silently,
quietly the world tell us their secret.”
Dschalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi 1207 – 1273
Oman with its favorable geostrategic position in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula was seized by the oil boom in the 70ies of the last century.
Within a very short time a rapid cultural, social and economic change took place. Up to that point sea trade, fishing, livestock farming and agriculture supplied the economic base of the population.
The mountains, the desert and the oases of Oman are beautiful. In the catchment area of the highland a complex irrigation system and a characteristic oasis culture have developed for over 3,000 years.
In the seminar and the subsequent excursion the wide historical background and state of Omani settlements were examined in regarded to their typologies of vernacular architecture material culture, methods of production.
A central aspect of the study was the rapid urban development with a complex of questions about how cities today claim their surrounding territories and integrate them into their urbanization.
Seminar and field research; Project during the professorship at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany (D. Karcher)
Collaboration partners
German University of Technology (Gutech), Muscat, Oman
Arabis Felix, Munich, Germany
The Wave Muscat, Oman
Salim Mubarak al Harithy, Oman
Themar Acadamy, UAE
