Imperial Façades: Muslim Institutions and Propaganda in Inter-War Paris

Abstract

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the interrelationship between expressions of colonial power, orientalist architecture and town planning. 1 Attention has centred on the syncretic relationship between western and Islamic architecture and design, both overseas in the British and French colonies or spheres of influence (from Istanbul and Cairo to Algiers and Rabat) and in the imperial heartland. Within western Europe a major field of innovation and influence was the great exhibitions and world fairs, from the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 onwards. In Paris, for example, elaborate complexes of Arab villages and pavilions, often constructed by North African craftsmen and inhabited by natives in tableaux vivantes , were designed for the exhibitions of 1867, 1889, 1900 and 1931. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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