{"id":8992,"date":"2017-01-06T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2017-01-06T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:55:47","slug":"architecture-islam-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/architecture-islam-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Works from Architectures of Islam &amp; Architectures and Urbanism of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/architecture-islam-africa\/architecture-of-africs-and-islam_cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8994\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/Architecture-of-Africs-and-Islam_cropped-1024x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/Architecture-of-Africs-and-Islam_cropped-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/Architecture-of-Africs-and-Islam_cropped-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/Architecture-of-Africs-and-Islam_cropped.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The architecture models\u00a0displayed in the Rockefeller Library&#8217;s Finn Reading Room cases were created by students in Professor Sheila Bonde&#8217;s lecture course &#8220;Architectures of Islam&#8221; and in Professor Itohan Osayimwese&#8217;s lecture course, &#8220;Architecture and Urbanism of Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bonde&#8217;s class looked at case studies of Islamic architecture spanning fourteen centuries and three continents, while Professor Osayimwese&#8217;s class looked at the built environments of Africa from earliest times to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Students were asked to create a model based on a building from the Islamic world or from the African world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>:\u00a0January 6 &#8211; May 31, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/about\/rock\/\">Rockefeller Library Hours<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Finn Reading Room Cases, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architecture models\u00a0displayed in the Rockefeller Library&#8217;s Finn Reading Room cases were created by students in Professor Sheila Bonde&#8217;s lecture course &#8220;Architectures of Islam&#8221; and in Professor Itohan Osayimwese&#8217;s lecture course, &#8220;Architecture and Urbanism of Africa.&#8221; Professor Bonde&#8217;s class looked at case studies of Islamic architecture spanning fourteen centuries and three continents, while Professor Osayimwese&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/architecture-islam-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | Works from Architectures of Islam &amp; Architectures and Urbanism of Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}