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Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (November 9 1911 in Cairo, Egypt - 1974), was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo. Ramses was also a potter and weaver who taught many disadvantaged Egyptian children to weave tapestries.
Captured 3 times between Feb 08, 2012 and Aug 08, 2012
Subject: Architecture--Egypt, Wissa Wassef, Ramses
Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef was born in Cairo. His father was a lawyer, a leader of Egypt's nationalist movement and an art patron who promoted the development of the arts in Egypt. After high school, Wassef wanted to become a sculptor but changed his mind and studied architecture in France at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His thesis project "A Potter's House in Old Cairo" received the first prize in 1935. He had a passion for beauty in form and believed "one cannot separate beauty from utility, the form from the material, the work from its function, man from his creative art."
Captured 3 times between Feb 08, 2012 and Aug 08, 2012
Subject: Architecture--Egypt, Wissa Wassef, Ramses
Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (November 9, 1911 in Cairo, Egypt - 1974), was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.[1] Ramses was also a potter and weaver who taught many disadvantaged Egyptian children to weave tapestries.
Captured 2 times between Feb 08, 2012 and May 08, 2012
Subject: Architecture--Egypt, Wissa Wassef, Ramses
Description: The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-1974) was dedicated to releasing the innate creativity of young Egyptian villagers freed from the constraints of a formal education. He wrote:
Captured 3 times between Feb 08, 2012 and Aug 08, 2012
Subject: Architecture--Egypt, Wissa Wassef, Ramses
Description: Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptian architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.
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Subject: Wissa Wassef, Ramses
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