Architecture in Islamic lands is at a critical turning point. Until relatively recently conventional academic research had been conducted largely from an ?Orientalist? perspective. It is only today that discussions of Islam and architecture are starting to acknowledge the true diversity and complexities of Islamic societies. Innovative and sustainable for centuries, the architecture of Islamic regions only declined in the 20th century with colonial and superpower politics, and the influx of oil wealth. Since then architecture has vacillated between the widespread adoption of imported inappropriate building systems and the self–conscious parody of an ?Islamic style?. With growing global anxiety over control of oil resources in the Middle East and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, what, however, happens next ? Are we capable today of a new, pluralistic, truly contemporary and ecologically responsible approach to architecture ? If so, then such an approach might be the...

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