Nostalgia is an architectural proposal identified in the source as a 2020 entry to represent Egypt at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Responding to the theme ‘How Will We Live Together?’, the project looks toward the Egyptian countryside as a model of shared values, cultural memory and interconnected life.
Looking back to imagine a future
The original caption introduces the vision through words attributed to Umm Kulthum: ‘Tell time to Return back’. The project uses that longing for the past to ask what values might guide life together in the future. Ethics, culture, art and history become the material of its architectural narrative.
The countryside as a model of community
Rural Egypt is presented as an image of unity and mutual connection. This is the project’s chosen model for answering the exhibition theme, linking architectural representation with the social relationships it wishes to preserve. Its view of the countryside belongs to the proposal’s stated perspective.
Red brick and the changing scene
The source describes architectural scenes in which red brick construction approaches the rural setting. Within the proposal, that change symbolizes a perceived threat to traditional morals and community bonds. A mural on the exhibit wall develops the same concern, giving the cultural argument another form of visual expression.
A flashback for future life
Nostalgia uses a backward glance to formulate a forward-looking question: what should communities carry with them as their surroundings change? The project’s answer is expressed through scenes, symbols and a mural rather than a list of new building functions.
This publication preserves the proposal’s 2020 designation and its Egyptian cultural references. It presents the design vision without claiming a selection result or a realized exhibition.
