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The fifth in a series of ten public events interrogating how heritage and contemporary creativity enhance and affect both quality of life and sustainability in a range of Muslim contexts, co-produced by Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and held in the iconic Aga Khan Centre.
Light is an essential element in Islamic architecture. For more than fifteen centuries, design strategies were developed all over the Islamic World to radiate, filter, refract, redirect, magnify, focus, conceal, and altogether mystify light. The impressive array of light architecture they have left still astonishes, stirs, and elates today. This talk will present some of the most outstanding examples of light architecture in Islamic history and examine their aesthetic, spatial, and environmental qualities as well as their symbolic and metaphysical connotations. Avoiding any essentialist standpoint, the talk will argue instead that light was shaped for a variety of purposes ranging from the purely functional to the emotive, spiritual, and awe-inspiring depending on the time, place, function, and aspiration.
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