The research deals with the architecture of Egyptian society in the post-traditional period. The French campaign in Egypt sparked a paradigm that generated a belief in European cultural superiority. Hence, what was later dictated by 'the West' in particular aspects, including architectural practice, was ubiquitously absorbed by Egyptian practitioners and architectural specialists. Out of this context, traditional architecture has been reshaped and re-introduced to Egyptians through a deformed colonial perspective. This has generated an Egyptian worldview devoid of traditional architectural principles, and instead, architecture became a mere form of stylistic manipulation. Since Egyptians only witnessed the aftermath of the post-Renaissance period and did not experience the Renaissance itself, the process of Westernising Egypt has left us with an architectural discourse devoid of conceptual meanings and unified language.

This thesis showcases how the model of colonising Egypt and its society has catalysed the deformity within Egypt’s architectural discourse. It hypothesises that if the present day’s deformity within Egyptian discourse of architecture had been catalysed by the post-Renaissance ideology, then contemporary Egyptian architecture is generated through a post-traditional worldview devoid of a meaningful theoretical background. This research is divided into three main parts; the first deals with the process of uprooting tradition in Western society, the second introduces notions of transformations within Egyptian society after the French campaign, and the third is the application to the theory of the research within a framework of analysis.