Book Launch: At the Edge of Where God Built

Please join us to celebrate the release of At the Edge of Where God Built, a new book from Actar Publishers by Ziad Jamaleddine & Makram el Kadi of L.E.FT Architects. The conversation with the authors will be moderated by Nader Tehrani of NADAAA. At the Edge of Where God Built undertakes a critical examination of L.E.FT Architects’ diverse body of work from the past decade, reorganizing their designs, research, and pedagogy around five key Arabic spatial terms: tawaf (circumambulation space), jami (mosque space), riwaq (a courtyard’s colonnade), dar (domestic space), and khirba (a ruin). Rooted in the Arab-speaking, Islamic geographies of the Middle East and North Africa, these terms illuminate and conceptualize L.E.FT’s investigations into forms of contemporary religious and non-religious architecture. 6:00pm — Doors open 6:30pm — Conversation with Nader Tehrani begins 7:15pm — Q&A 7:30pm — Reception 8:00pm — Close About L.E.FT L.E.FT was founded in New York in 2004. The office was…