Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Transregional Manifestations of Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas

Caroline 'Olivia' M. Wolf







PART I: Rethinking the Mudejar in the Americas: Colonial Contexts



Chapter 1. Design, Disruption, and Disease: Reconstructing the Historical Context of the 'Mosque-type' Chapels in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Luis Carlos Barragan



Chapter 2. A 'Church of Mosque Proportions': Debates of Mudejar Style in New Granada

Juan Ricardo Rey



Chapter 3. Echoes of Mashrabiya in Latin America: Reconsidering the Balconies of Lima

Fernando Luis Martinez Nespral







PART II: Revisiting Orientalism in the Americas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Forms and Patronage



Chapter 4. The Turkish Style Cozy Corner: Everyday Appropriations of Islamicate Objects and Spaces in the American Parlor, 1885-1910

Sarah Wheat Ordu



Chapter 5. Midwest Middle East: Forms of Synthesis in Chicago's Baha'i Temple

Vajdon Sohaili



Chapter 6. Constructing Orientalism in Interwar Florida

Emily Neumeier







PART III: Revealing Diasporic Patronage in the Americas: Modern and Contemporary Representational and Religious Space



Chapter 7. Crafting Cosmopolitanism in the Brazilian Mahjar: Eclecticism, Orientalism and the Syrian-Lebanese Architectural Patronage of Centennial Sao Paulo

Caroline 'Olivia' M. Wolf



Chapter 8. Independent and/or Instrumentalized: Surveying Mosque Architecture in Chile (1986-2006)

Courtney Lesoon



Chapter 9. Canadian Mosques: Hybridity of Form and Program

Tammy Gaber



Chapter 10. Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.

Akel Kahera







Contributor Biographies



Index