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Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas

Transregional Dialogues and Manifestations

Author: Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf   Series: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East

Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas
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From colonial courtyards in Peru to the mosques and cultural centres of contemporary communities across North America, depicts how architectural traditions of the Islamic world have taken root. Confronts conventional geographical boundaries, situating the Americas in dialogue with transregional aesthetic and cultural networks. 37 col. 17b&w illus.

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From colonial courtyards in Peru to the mosques and cultural centres of contemporary communities across North America, depicts how architectural traditions of the Islamic world have taken root. Confronts conventional geographical boundaries, situating the Americas in dialogue with transregional aesthetic and cultural networks. 37 col. 17b&w illus.

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Architectural expressions resonant with Islamic traditions appear in diverse modes across the Americas, from Andalusian-inspired colonial patios in Peru to the modern and contemporary patronage of immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. This volume examines the multiple manifestations of Islamic architecture that permeate the region’s built environment to invite an expanded framing of this architectural legacy via a hemispheric consideration of aesthetics, narrative, and patronage.

Chapters consider a broad range of topics from the migration of aesthetic traditions and construction techniques tied to the architectural forms of the Islamic world in the colonial “New World,” to the direct contributions of modern and contemporary migrants in shaping a collective identity and the built environment.

By placing in productive dialogue sites that represent Islamic and Islamicate architecture across North and South America – two areas outside of the traditional conceptions of the Islamic world– this volume bridges transregional and transcultural gaps in the current literature.

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About the Author

Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf is an assistant professor of Art History at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Her research emphasizes diasporic and transregional visual intersections across the Global South, with areas of specialization in Latin American modernism, as well as Middle Eastern art and architecture. Wolf’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

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Intellect | Intellect Books
Published
25th August 2025
Pages
256
ISBN
9781835951316

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