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In the search for ideas for a new building style British architects studied architecture outside Europe.  These traditional forms were also threatened with obliteration by 'the march of progress', and drawings had to be made to record them before they were destroyed.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Spiers was an architect better-known  for his teaching and writing on the subject than as a practitioner. In 1865-1866 he toured the Middle East on a travelling scholarship from the Royal Academy. On his return he exhibited several pictures with Eastern subjects at the Royal Academy of which this was probably one. 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The three madrasah and tomb complexes shown are, from front to back, those of the Sultans Barquq, al-Nasir Muhammad and Qalawun.","briefDescription":"Watercolour, Suq al-Nahhasin, Cairo, 1866, by Richard Phené Spiers FRIBA FSA","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Aslet, Clive, Elkan, Jenny, et al. <i>Great Cities in the 19th Century</i>. 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