In Germany, important architectural discussions consciously or unconsciously continue to be overshadowed by the cultural policy of the Third Reich.
On the contrary, it was begotten in the immense suffering of a planned postwar amnesia, a forced oblivion of the past, of architecture, and of the non-industrial city in general.
On the contrary it was the civilized face, the aesthetic and cultured façade of this empire of lies, and was used by the regime to implant its totalitarian rule in the captivated soul of the masses.
Nasser Rabbat is an authority on medieval Islamic Architecture with particular emphasis on the relationship between urban culture and architectural form.
He also published several essays on Umayyad architecture (7th-8th century) and Mamluk architecture and urbanism (13th-15th century), the last of which is "The Dialogic Dimension in Umayyad Art," RES 43 (Spring 2003).
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art is part of the Department of Architecture, within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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