History of Architecture and Engineering in Kuwait

Engineer Sabah Al-Rayes – a civil engineer – graduated in the United States in 1965. He is one of the first generation of Kuwaiti engineers who witnessed the urban renaissance of Kuwait. He worked in the Ministry of Works and then founded the Arab Bureau for Engineering Consultations in 1968, and contributed to the urban renaissance.He witnessed many of its events, and was a key player in contributing to its renaissance through designing and supervising more than 1,000 projects in various fields in the field, roads, bridges, and infrastructure, covering more than 40 countries.

It is necessary to write about many questions about the period that the fathers and grandfathers lived during the days of diving and travel, the period before oil and the oil boom, the years of appreciation and independence, and after independence, and how that generation endured life in the heat, cold, and scarcity of water.

The book’s chapters included the history of Kuwait, its borders, its ancient homes, its population, its activities and its architecture, and it shed light on the tremendous work carried out by the Kuwaitis in building the third wall in 1920.

He touched on the distinctive buildings in Kuwait before many of them were demolished. He also touched on the urban renaissance after the discovery of oil, a period in which Kuwait changed from a coastal village bordered by the desert on one side and the sea on the other side to a modern city.