Day 96 of the 100 Day Studio: Shahed Saleem presents two of the UK’s most significant mosques, Frederick Gibberd’s 1977 building at Regent’s Park in London and Marks Barfield’s recently completed Cambridge Central Mosque. The pair span Britain’s post-war Muslim history. Through this period the politics of race, identity and belonging have been under constant negotiation and contestation. This talk attempts to reinterpret these buildings with reference to the writings of Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Abdul Hakim Murad, and asks if they can be said to represent a shift from a politics to a ‘theology of belonging’.
100 DAY STUDIO
The 100 Day Studio is a new series of online lectures, interviews, building tours and panel discussions, organised by The Architecture Foundation. For 100 weekdays from Monday April 6th 2020 to Thursday August 27th 2020, the 100 Day Studio will host many of best architects and architectural thinkers in the world, broadcast live and uploaded here on this channel. The curriculum for the week ahead will be announced each Friday at architecturefoundation.org.uk/news/100-day-studio
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