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Nicholas Warner

Consulting Conservation Architect

Dr. Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian trained at Cambridge University, UK, and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Since 1993 he has been based in Egypt, where he has participated in or directed a number of projects related to the documentation, preservation, and presentation of historic structures and archaeological material. Amongst these are:

  • the Cairo Mapping Project (a new map of Historic Cairo showing the plans of approximately 550 buildings in the mediaeval city)
  • the Quseir Fort Visitors' Center (the restoration and conversion of a 16th century fortress on the Red Sea into a regional visitors' center)
  • the Saqqara New Kingdom Necropolis Project (constructing protective shelters and designing a long-term conservation and presentation strategy for the site)
  • the tomb of Anen (TT120) in Luxor (the preservation of wall-paintings)
  • the North Kharga Oasis Survey (the architectural recording of Romano-Byzantine domestic and sacred architecture)
  • Columbia University / New York University excavations at Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis (the consolidation of a late-Roman standing remains including a mudbrick pyramid and construction of visitor facilities)
  • the Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (a new display)
  • the Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo (construction of a new conservation laboratory and visitor facilities, the restoration of the building fabric, and the design of improved displays)
  • the Monastery of St. Paul, the Red Monastery, and the Fortress of Babylon/Old Cairo (architectural documentation)

His work for ISAW currently includes advising on the archaeological site of Vani in the Republic of Georgia, and constructing a replica of a late-Roman Villa to serve as a visitor center at the site of Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis.

Nicholas Warner's books include: The True Description of Cairo: a sixteenth-century Venetian view (3 vols., Oxford University Press 2006), The Monuments of Historic Cairo: a map and descriptive catalogue (American University in Cairo Press, 2005), Legends of the House of the Cretan Woman (American University in Cairo Press, 2001), and An Egyptian Panorama: reports from the nineteenth-century British press (Zeitouna Press, 1994).

Contact: nicholasjwarner@gmail.com