Ikram Nosshi has great admiration for the simplicity and timeless qualities of the Egyptian vernacular architecture, in particular the works of Ramses Wissa Wassef. He continues to use traditional building methods and materials for the design and implementation of most of his client’s private residential houses and the farm buildings of the Desert Developing Centre of the American University in Cairo. He also designed and built churches and dormitories, and renovated old buildings in a few of the Coptic monasteries in the Egyptian deserts. Since 1977, Nosshi has been working closely with his wife Suzanne Wissa Wassef on initiating the second generation of wool weavers, expanding the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center, developing and building ceramic kilns for the stoneware ceramics produced by Suzanne, and organizing and curating international tapestry exhibitions in Europe, North America and Japan.
