“In this early period, our grandfathers were literally moving from their stone and wood houses to concrete buildings. This was a generation that encountered modernity first-hand and had to deal with reconciling traditional values with modern development and progress.”

-Turki Gazzaz.  He and his brother, Abdulrahman founded Bricklab which has initiated the Saudi Modern project which looks at the period between 1938 – when oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia – and 1964, the year after the first Jeddah master plan. [The National]