Returning home with lots of pictures to share from an incredibly blessed trip to Iran,…
Category: Middle East
Female architects are finally in the spotlight. Besting a field of over 348 finalists from 69 countries, projects spearheaded by three women
The six award recipients, arrived at after long and sometimes heated discussion, accurately reflect the…
Excerpt: Of the six winners, however, the project that engages most directly with the culture…
Some of the links to various international media reporting on Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 winner’s significant news. This blog post will be updated as additional media reporting is discovered.
The award was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully addressed the needs and aspirations of communities in which Muslims have a significant presence.
The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The venue for the winners’ ceremony, the Al Jahili fort in Al-Ain, was also announced
Being Parviz Tanavoli: a note by Zainub Verjee In November 2015, I was invited to…
Creating a small and low budget apartment building in Tehran does not leave much space for creativity, yet an architect can try to do something with the material, textures, outer envelope and light.
Syrian war-and-peace and the attendant humanitarian disaster are in the headlines. 25.000 Syrians finding new…
Toronto, September 21, 2016 — The Aga Khan Museum announces its fall education programming, which…
Foundation behind museum has committed $200m to post-war reconstruction The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto,…
Three sculptures by Iranian-Canadian artist Parviz Tanavoli are on display at Aga Khan Park on…
It is a cylindrical volume that measures 45m in diameter. The steel and concrete structure follows a diamond shaped grid that bends along the virtual surface of the cylinder. The façade uses a double skin system. The exterior skin is composed
Lecture by Harvard AKPIA Fellow Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge Source:…
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