Making Manifest : Grounding Islam
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Date
2010-01-21T16:22:12Z
Authors
Josephson, Alexander
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University of Waterloo
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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.
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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