Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism

by Mohammad al-Asad, Ali S. Asani, Simon Burtscher-Matis, Farrokh Derakhshani, Robert Fabach, Eva Grabherr, Tina Gudrun Jensen, Azra Akšamija, Amila Buturović, Amra Hadžimuhamedović

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Description This book investigates how architecture can shape an open-minded and inclusive society, highlighting three internationally renowned projects: the White Mosque in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1980); the Islamic Cemetery Altach in Altach, Austria (2012); and the Superkilen public park in Copenhagen, Denmark (2012). Scholarly essays across various disciplines, along with interviews with the architects and users of these projects, provide intriguing insights into architecture's ability to bridge cultural differences. Soliciting a wide array of questions about migration, transculturalism, visibility, inclusion, and exclusion, the book sheds light on the long-term social processes generated between architectural form and its users. Architecture of Coexistence offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on a very timely subject: "Building pluralism" means designing for a respectful inclusion of different cultural needs, practices, and traditions. With contributions by Azra Akšamija, Mohammad al-Asad, Ali S. Asani, Simon Burtscher-Matis, Amila Buturovi, Farrokh Derakhshani, Robert Fabach, Eva Grabherr, Amra Hadimuhamedovi, Tina Gudrun Jensen, Jennifer Mack, Nasser Rabbat, Barbara Steiner, Helen Walasek and Wolfgang Welsch. Photo essays by Velibor Boovi, Cemal Emden, Jesper Lambaek, and Nikolaus Walter.

Author Biography

Azra Aksamija is an artist and architectural historian. She is the founding Director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab (FHL) and an Associate Professor in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). Her work explores how social life is affected by cultural bias and by the deterioration and destruction of cultural infrastructures within the context of conflict, migration, and forced displacement. Aksamija is the author of Mosque Manifesto: Propositions for Spaces of Coexistence (2015) and Museum Solidarity Lobby (2019). Her artistic work has been exhibited in leading international venues, including the Generali Foundation Vienna, Liverpool Biennial, Secession Vienna, the Royal Academy of Arts London, Queens Museum of Art in New York, Design Week Festivals in Milan, Istanbul, and Amman, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini as a part of the 54th Art Biennale in Venice. Her most recent work was shown at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization (2019), the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2020), and Venice Architecture Biennale (2020). She received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013 for her design of the prayer space in the Islamic Cemetery Altach, the 2019 Art Prize of the City of Graz, and an honorary doctorate from the Monserrat College of Art, 2020.

Details

  • ISBN 396680008X
  • ISBN-13 9783966800082
  • Title Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism
  • Author Mohammad al-Asad, Ali S. Asani, Simon Burtscher-Matis, Farrokh Derakhshani, Robert Fabach, Eva Grabherr, Tina Gudrun Jensen, Azra Akšamija, Amila Buturović, Amra Hadžimuhamedović
  • Format Hardcover
  • Year 2020
  • Pages 288
  • Publisher ArchiTangle GmbH
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