The Glass Mosque: Shahzia Sikander

We are proud to announce the publication of Project 7: The Glass Mosque, an interdisciplinary book conceived around a collective rethinking of the mosque through spatial, material, literary, and musical pathways. The phrase was coined by visual artist Shahzia Sikander.

The book, long in the works, considers the mosque as a proxy for the commons, not in an imperialistic or universalizing sense, but as a site of possibility.

The Glass Mosque gathers work by artists, theorists, composers, and architects including: Vijay Iyer, Fred Moten, Bhanu Kapil & Blue Pieta, Alexander Schweder, Aki Ishida, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, and Na’ama Rokem. Central to the book are previously unpublished drawings from the archive of Shahzia Sikander.