The Mosque for the Diaspora, a New Type of Islamic Vernacular

The exhibition frames the architecture as a new type of Islamic vernacular and we recognize it as a significant phase of Muslim architectural and cultural history. The Indian American psychoanalyst Salma Ufta talks about what he calls the pain of migration and its cumulative trauma on the migrant ego. He describes how in normal ego growth synesthesia develops into sensory compartmentalization. So the mosque for the diaspora fulfills a series of functions, I've become interested in how the psychological condition of the migrant is present in the making of diasporic life worlds.