Egypt’s first showing at London Design Biennale: The first Egyptian exhibition to be featured at the London Design Biennale features the vision of Al Emara (1939-1959), the first Arabic-language design magazine focused on contemporary architecture in Egypt. The Biennale writes that, “The Egyptian installation will mourn the loss of the country’s modernist architecture, a rich heritage that has been left to ruin or violently erased, and asks the question: how can a design language that was once embraced by a society be so easily forgotten and denied a place in history?” The exhibition, entitled Modernist Indignation, according to a statement from organizers (pdf), pays homage to the magazine’s history and its founder, architect Sayed Karim, and “reflects on the impermanence of architecture and subsequent historical loss to society,” says exhibition designer Suzanne Gaballa. The London Design Biennale runs from Tuesday, 4 September until Sunday, 23 September at Somerset House.