Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture
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Nuha Khoury
Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture |
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As Nuha Khoury explains it, Islamic architecture represents a response to a universal concern and need not be understood
in religious terms.
"My job is to get students to distinguish between religious references in Islamic architecture and what are practical solutions to the shared human problem of negotiating or defining the space in which we live," said Khoury, an assistant professor in UCSB's History of Art and Architecture Department. Also an expert on Islamic art, Khoury says deconstructing the exoticism of Near Eastern traditions is critical to what she sees as one of her primary tasks as an instructor: fostering an appreciation for commonality in addition to differences. "I try to emphasize the human aspects of art and architecture by urging students to question the assumption that the underlying issues are particular to art history, and to realize that they are in fact common to the humanities," she said. |
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