Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

The King Abdullaziz Historical Center KAHC is a culturally significant project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in which architecture has been used to rewrite national identity. The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship among the ways in which the nation-building negotiate and construct meanings of national identity. In order to identify its construction reflects, this study is divided into two important stages which are generally in the story of content and the forms of galleries and materials. The first stage highlights the role of content, structure of the story and the historical representation conceptualized within the research framework of narrative and discourse. The concern is to identify the link between the role of architecture that emerged at some translation from language to architecture through the theory in linguistics. A second stage then involves the issues of narrative ideas and what is the way of these galleries trying to tell the story and communicate, Also, looking at traditional understandings of Saudi culture to analyse the galleries and understand the major structures that interpret the regional style of Saudi Arabia.