Interestingly, the research into humane form is complemented in Rewal’s work with ambition in the engineering dimension of architecture. Moreover, his discussion of the innovative combination of stone and steel in his recent Lisbon Ismaili Centre reveals his awareness of the way cultural messages may be coded into the structural system of a building. However, it is precisely at points like this when Rewal invokes big ideas like “the Islamic ideal of where one is a part of the whole”
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