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Re-branding Islamic Architecture?

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Nasser RabbatIn the last 50 years, architecture in the Islamic World has become both a branding instrument and a visual marker of the cultural shift in Islamic identity. In this presentation made at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in November 2012, Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the re-emergence of Islamic architecture and the controversy surrounding its definition.

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