Tarek Naga

Tarek Naga (June 24, 1953 – November 23, 2023) was an Egyptian architect.

Early life Tarek Naga was born in 1953 in Cairo, Egypt. He is the elder brother of Egyptian actor and film maker Khaled Abol Naga. He obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from Ain Shams University in 1975 and a master's from the University of Minnesota in 1982. He was based in America, where he has lived since 1979. He has published works on architecture and has taught in America and been a guest academic at the American University in Cairo. He regularly enters design competitions. He has created installations for exhibitions and has been involved in a variety of ongoing design projects in Egypt and Dubai. He died in November 23, 2023.

Architecture Initially trained in traditional architectural styles, Naga found these unsatisfactory and wanted to "get out of this box, look for other possibilities -- something much more substantial than just a continuation of the same kind of style, variations and abstractions of certain variations, Eastern or Western, Islamic or not, Mies van der Rohe or whoever was trendiest…" at Dahshur, Egypt.

The project aimed to protect and develop the historical Dahshur site while creating a sustainable management plan for the area and employment for the local community. Naga and his team documented historical evidence at the site, and created a database of each monument at the location.

In 2010, he designed a "Muramid" for the Art Miles Project to commemorate the International Day of Peace. The "Muramid" consisted of a floating pyramid structure. It was designed to float down the Nile whilst displaying digitised murals created by children from all over the world on a variety of themes.

Exhibitions 1986 "Drawing Towards Building Exhibit", Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA 1991 "Doors, Scrolls & Ladders" Art Show, Avenue Gallery, Venice, CA 1993 "Domesticating Modernity", UIA Congress, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1998 UCLA/AAAI - Art & Aesthetic of Artificial Intelligence Conference, UCLA, CA 2000 "Project 2000 Exhibit", Global Architecture, GA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2000 "Archilab 2000", An International Conference and Exhibit, Orleans, France 2000 "Venice Biennale 2000", Egypt Pavilion Exhibit, Venice, Italy 2001 "Research Architecture", Pratt Institute/Storefront Gallery, New York, USA 2003 "Architectures Expérimentales 1950-2000", Orléans, France 2004 "Plastered: Political Prints", Group Exhibit, Block 7 Gallery, Denver, Colorado

Projects 1995 Yokohama International Port Terminal Competition, Yokohama, Japan 2000 House of Emergent Suspensions, ESK House, Cairo, Egypt 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture 2000, Egypt's Pavilion, Venice, Italy 2000 - Current The Giza Pyramids Plateau Master Plan, Giza, Egypt 2001 Marina International Hotel, Marina Del Rey, California, USA 2001 Science City Competition, Egypt 2002 The Grand Egyptian Museum Competition (GEM) 2002 Requiem / Multi-Media Installation American University in Cairo, Egypt 2003 World Trade Center Memorial Competition 2004 - Current City of Phantom Limbs / Docuceptual Film 2005 - Current Bus Stops System, New Cairo City, Egypt 2006 Hikari Tobari Installation, Tokyo Designers Week, Tokyo, Japan 2006 – Current OQYANA, The World First, development, Dubai, UAE