Established in 1999, TURATH is an architectural and urban design research based consultancy firm specializing in areas such as heritage conservation & management esp. Adaptive reuse and architectural interpretation, urban regeneration, tourism and planning,...etc. Turath operates across the Middle East, collaborating on projects in Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar, Bahrain, and France.
TURATH provides consultation in architectural design, heritage conservation & urban regeneration, architectural research & environmental design, heritage tourism, cultural site management, community empowerment and place research, and training and capacity building at different levels. The main objective of TURATH is providing consultation coupled with scientific, historic, and thorough research on the site or locale understudy.
Clients of TURATH include public sectors in the middle east such as Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT), Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan (MOTA), spanning projects in Amman and various locations across the country. Turath collaborates extensively with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and donor agencies.
About
TURATH
“Practicing Architecture rests primarily on a genuine understanding of place; its social production, local dynamics and politics, emerging discourses, and continuous evolution.
The role of the architect, then, becomes an affirmation to creatively locate new meaning for that place in order for it not to be frozen in time. Only then, place emerges as a palimpsest of constant change and transformation, and the challenge to the practice of architecture evolves into the meticulous management of that change and transformation."
Rami Daher
