A confluence of events led to the creation of the author's seminar on gender and race in contemporary architecture, prompted by his participation in a campuswide workshop on teaching diversity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In thinking about space/power/knowledge intersections, we offer a rich and descriptive account of the urban mosque, which has far too long been neglected. Our account reveals descriptive language as a basis for aesthetic syncretism and the creation of an American
The scholarship on religious space in America from the 1940s through the 1960s exists at the intersection of several kinds of literature, including history, religious studies, and material culture (Price, 2013). Furthermore, because of the increased mobility of people and beliefs and an increasingly worldwide diaspora, the scholarship asks whether cultural and political boundaries—both material and figurative—have been manufactured or dissolved as research is carried out.
Over the last two decades or more, there has been an increasing attempt to understand the relationship between the modalities of everyday life through the complex cosmopolitan influence of Cairo’s urban history. As Ross King has suggested in Emancipating Space (1996), “There can be no emancipation without unmasking all the linkages of spatial meaning and the kinships between space, knowledge and power . . .
This paper calls for a reassessment of three forms of improvisation: primitivism, cubism and the agency of the African mask. Towards the end, this essay will investigate the symbolic and cultural forms, which can be found specifically in the space of the African mask. Secondly, the essay explores the dynamic relationships of space found in African architecture, for example, the tripartite relationships of cosmology, time and community life that exists in Dogon architecture.