This institute building constructed from 1981 to 1987 with a floor space of 181,850 square feet. The institute itself was established during 1980 in Paris, when 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with France to establish the Institute to disseminate information about the Arab world and set in motion detailed research to cover Arabic and the Arab world’s cultural and spiritual values...........
The Arab world and its civilization and values, its past and its future, needs to be better known and understood in the West. The architecture of the institute takes into account many different dialectical relations: those inherent in the site, the border between traditional urban fabric of Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Germain and the fabric of contemporary Université de Jussieu, and linking the different Arab and Western cultures, those related to notions of history and modernity and relations stemming from the ideas of interiority and openness.
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