Dr. Nairy Hampikian — Heritage Architect & Conservationist, Cairo

Hampikian — Architecture & HeritageEst. 1990 · Cairo

Practice · Vol. I✳

Dr. Nairy Hampikian — licensed architectural engineer and archaeologist, 35+ years restoring Islamic Cairo, Pharaonic monuments, and Armenian heritage across Egypt and Armenia.

35+Years of conservation

131Parcels documented

9Listed monuments restored

“Authenticity at the level of the individual stone; habitability through a contemporary engineered core.”

Since 1990

Projects

Founder · Director

CAIRO

Nairy HampikianPhD Archaeology · UCLA

heritageconservationislamic cairopharaonicarmenian heritagesince 1990

each restoration is a dialogue between stone, memory, and use — documented in detail and designed to outlast us.

Collection I — Islamic Cairo

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Darb al-Labbana neighbourhood, Historic Cairo — site condition before conservation works, with mosque minarets visible in the distance

HISTORIC CAIRO, EGYPT2025

Hampikian for Architecture

A groundbreaking 10-feddan (42,500 m²) urban conservation masterplan for one of Historic Cairo's most endangered medieval neighbourhoods, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site. The project introduced…

Collection II — Islamic Cairo

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Bab Zuwayla — Fatimid gate of Cairo with the twin minarets of the Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Mosque

HISTORIC CAIRO, EGYPT2000s

Hampikian for Architecture

Comprehensive conservation of Bab Zuwayla, one of only three surviving Fatimid gates of medieval Cairo (1092 AD). Funded through a USAID–Egypt Antiquities Programme, the project addressed structural c…

Collection III — Ancient Egypt

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Colossi of Memnon — twin seated statues of Amenhotep III on the Theban Necropolis, Luxor

LUXOR, EGYPTpresent

Hampikian for Architecture

Serving as site architect for over fifteen years at one of Egypt's most ambitious Pharaonic conservation projects: the excavation and conservation of the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty…

each restoration is a dialogue between stone, memory, and use — documented in detail and designed to outlast us.

CAIRO

FATIMID

LUXOR