Faith in the City: Keynote Lecture

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*PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE WILL BE HELD AT RICH MIX*

The symposium's keynote lecture will be delivered by Michel Abboud, principal of SOMA, and architectural consultant for New York's Park51 Islamic Cultural Centre, who will present his practice's designs for the highly contested Manhattan cultural project, outlining the context, design, programme and the social and political landscape that is necessarily negotiated within this sensitive design process. Abboud will be in conversation with Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster, cultural critic and Visiting Professor, School of Arts, City University, London.

"This project has been the cause of so much controversy and debate in the US and in the world that listening very carefully to all sides and all opinions has become one of our main concerns as architects and as New Yorkers. Our main goal with our proposal has always been to promote unification and interconnectivity among the many faiths and religions that constitute the social network of our city. The over-mediatization of the project caused by its programme and its location has unfortunately promoted a socio-political split that has placed the architectural product at the center of this controversy. For many, the architecture is the solution to the socio-political debate."
- Michel Abboud, SOMA

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Venue:
Rich Mix
35 - 47 Bethnal Green Rd
London
E1 6LA

http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2010/faith-in-the-city-the-mosque-in-the-contemporary-urban-west/untitled-document