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Modernist Islamic Architecture: Toward preserving a migrant past

21 September 2011
BC & Agencies

Abbey_Mills0220MakeSpace Architects is a London-based firm whose work specializes in private and social housing, as well as community buildings. Much of the community work focuses on the development of mosques and Islamic centers. Besides designing and building the structures, MakeSpace aspire to develop a new architectural language based on what indigenous, British Islamic architecture, in their eyes, should be.

Ottoman architecture not just from Armenians and Greeks, says historian

25 December 2010
Publisher
Two recent exhibitions on Istanbul's Armenian and Greek architects have caused a debate among experts on Ottoman Selimiye_MosqueDome. While some say there is an attempt to show that Istanbul’s recent architectural heritage belongs to Armenians and Greeks only, others think that such a prejudiced approach goes against academic objectivity Selman Can has studied Ottoman architecture extensively.
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