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2011 » Lebanon » Architecture Section
| Curator: | Mona Fawaz, Mona Fawaz |
| Authors of Theme: | Ziad Makram , Jamaleddine el-Kadi |
| Designer / Architect of exhibition: | L.E.FT Architects |
| Institution: | L.E.FT Architects |
Moschea del Mondo
A geopolitical architectural performance, Moschea del Mondo is conceived as a heterotopian space, providing a room to experience and debate political difference as it negotiates the boundary between East and West along the Mediterranean Sea. A post-colonial Orient Express, it negotiates internal and external borders and provides a new take on the “Switzerland of the East” and “Paris of the East” – titles bestowed on Lebanon and Beirut prior to the civil war. For the exhibit itself, we have designed a prayer rug as the ultimate travelling mosque. The rug is a map illustrating Moschea del Mondo’s journey to the Mediterranean Sea. The rug will be located in the exhibition space at an angle facing towards Mecca. People can then literally use this rug as a space for prayer, a shrunken mosque minimized to its bare minimum.
Other collaborators: Daniel Colvard