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Photograph by Ed Grazda
Mosques are fast finding their way into the contemporary Western architectural mosaic. This Symposium will build on this development to examine several issues. First is the relationship between the perception of Islam and the form, placement, and reception of Mosques in the West today. Second is the effect of new mosque design on the social structure and cultural make-up of Islamic communties in the West. Third is the more general question of how sacred space is produced, represented, and used in the current urban setting with its fast changing and competing signs and agendas.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2006
2:00 to 5:00
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2006
10:00 to 11:45 & 1:30 to 5:30
MIT 56-114
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Event is free and open to the public. For further information, please e-mail: akpiarch@mit.edu, phone: 617 253 1400
PROGRAM
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FRIDAY, APRIL 21
2:00
Welcoming Remarks
Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor at MIT
Robert Randolph, Dean for Student Life
Omar Khalidi, Aga Khan Librarian at MIT
Islam in the West
Chair: Nasser Rabbat
2:30
Muslims and Mosques in America:
Visible and Vulnerable
Diana Eck, Harvard University
3:00
The American Mosque Post 9/11:
Between Tradition and Pluralism
Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
3:30
Mosques In Europe and America:
From Places of Worship to Congregation
Jocelyn Cesari, Harvard University
4:00
Discussion
4:15
Break
Representations of the Mosque
Chair: Nasser Rabbat
4:30
Generative Design Principles
for Contemporary Islamic Practice in the West
Azra Aksamija, MIT
SATURDAY, APRIL 22
Mosques/Islamic Centers and the Larger Society
Chair: Gulzar Haider
10:00
Living as Muslims in a Pluralistic Society
Aminah B. McCloud, DePaul University
10:30
Competing for Muslims:
New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit
Sally Howell, University of Michigan
11:00
Acculturation or Assimilation in American Mosque Attendees
Ihsan Bagby, University of Kentucky
11:30
Discussion
11:45
Lunch Break
Contemporary Mosque Design in Europe
Chair: Hassan-Uddin Khan
1:30
Form-as-Identity:
Twentieth Century Mosque Architecture in Europe and North America
Nebahat Avcioglu, Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris
2:00
The Narrative of Place
Rasem Badran, Architect, Jordan
PRESENTATION CANCELLED
2:30
Constructing Mosques. Mosque Establishment and Islamic presence in France and the Netherlands
Marcel Maussen, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam
3:00
Discussion
3:15
Break
Contemporary Mosque Design in North America
Chair: Aminah B. McCloud
3:30
Against the Traditional Grain, Respectfully:
Search for an Architecture of Relevance for Muslim Communities
Gulzar Haider, Carleton University
4:00
Approaches to Mosque Design:
The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
Gregg Cribb, Architect, Boston
4:30
The Making of a Mosque for the Islamic Center of America Dearborn, Michigan
David Donnellon, Architect, Detroit
5:00
Closing Remarks
Omar Khalidi
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