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| Title: | Making Manifest : Grounding Islam |
| Authors: | Josephson, Alexander |
| Keywords: | Sculpture
Islam
Mecca
Architecture
Makkah
Salaat
Muybridge
Josephson
Design
Manifest
Perverse
Revolution
Scanning
Queen's Park
Ka'baa
Ka'bah
Design for Makkah
Prayer Mat
Bound in Sandpaper
Alexander Josephson
Design in Islam
Islamic Architecture
WTC
September 11th
Architecture in the age of righteousness
post critical
architectural theory
architectural criticism |
| Approved Date: | 21-Jan-2010 |
| Date Submitted: | 18-Dec-2009 |
| Abstract: | The Caveat
For many reasons, names have had to be concealed within this document. The
events depicted are real and the discussions true. This is an attempt to legitimize the informal, seemingly mundane and sometimes personal: the author’s experiences bringing a folly to the physical, while trespassing into a new world: Islam. This thesis documents a series of interventions at different scales within that world. There is a book, the chair, and the city of Makkah. The events themselves are superimposed onto the traditional language, or professional conventions, used to justify them. Here, they are relegated to the margins of each page. This is akin to how some of the first books were produced, by students in the confines of dark cloisters or hot desert temples, struggling to maintain historical integrity while fighting the natural tendencies of youth. Their master’s voices always looking over the gutter from the opposite page.
The sketches for a new Makkah and a monumental demonstration in Canada unfold in parallel to a body of formal research. Together, as seemingly independently as they are, they paint the portrait of an Islam, while building a personality between the lines.
That being said: there isn’t a correct way to read it. |
| Program: | Architecture |
| Department: | School of Architecture |
| Degree: | Master of Architecture |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4956 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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