Narrative
Architecture’s Affective Imaginaries
A reflection on a Bachelor of Architecture thesis design from over twenty-five years ago which broached a subject—the design of a mosque—which was an act of infidelity to the western-centric education leading up to it. The process of research and design was motivated by a critical questioning of contemporary gendering of mosque spaces, creating another layer of infidelity. This fraught exercise—its processes and infidelities—became the seed of over two decades of scholarship and pedagogy.
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