The Rooted Transience exhibition, curated by Faysal Tabbarah, brings together full-scale fragments of the winning AlMusalla Prize pavilion by EAST Architecture Studio with Rayyane Tabet and AKT II, alongside shortlisted proposals by AAU Anastas, Office of Sahel AlHiyari for Architecture, Dabbagh Architects, and Asif Khan. The projects are presented alongside a series of archival images and documents related to the architectural history of musallas, placing the contemporary works in dialogue with historical spatial practices in Islamic societies.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with the same title, edited by Chair of the Prize Prince Nawaf Bin Ayyaf and Faysal Tabbarah, exploring the entangled relationships between the historical, material, and contemporary registers within which musalla spaces emerge - and the architectural possibilities that can transpire when we learn from spatial and material practices rooted in transience and adaptability.