Building for Tomorrow Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Academy Editions
Since its beginnings in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has contributed enormously to the architecture profession in the Muslim world. With the foremost practitioners and experts on its first Steering Committee, its key statements were ‘A Search for Excellence’ and ‘Quality of the Built Environment’. This book documents the history of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture now in its fifth cycle. The text looks at architecture from a social, cultural and intellectual point of view and considers conservation projects and the building of institutions. There is also an informative retrospective of the awards. Contributors include Ron Lewcock, Suha Ozkhan, John de Monchaux, Don Mowatt, Hasan Uddin Khan, Mohammed Al-Asad, Peter Davey and many others.
Introduction
Azim A. Nanji
The Cultural and Intellectual Contexts
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Ismail Serageldin
Thinking Architecture
Mohamed Arkoun
Writing on the Architecture of Islam: The Last Twenty Years
Mohammad AI-Asad
The Tangled Web ofTime
S. Gulzar Haider
Architecture/Conservation Practices
Thoughts on Architecture
Turgut Cansever
Conservation in the Islamic World
Ronald Lewcock
Expressing an Islamic Identity
Hasan-Uddin Khan
Rehabilitation of Ksour, Draa Valley, Morocco
Jamel Akbar
The Archeological and Architectural Heritage of East Africa
Omar Bwana
Problems of the Social Context
The Social Challenge to Modern Islamic Architecture
Soedjatmoko
Enabling Processes and Institution Building
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Suha Özkan
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Rafique Keshavjee
Retrospect/ Prospect
Intentions and Challenges
Nader Ardalan
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: A Critical Commentary
Wayne Attoe
Aga Khan Architectural Awards and Turkish Architecture
Dogan Tekeli
Journey to Samarkand
Don Mowatt
Courageous Criteria
Peter Davey
Talk by His Highness The Aga Khan at the UIA/AlA Congress of Architects
Another Moore
Hasan-Uddin Khan
Contributors
Members of the Master Jury and of the Steering Committee
Awards List
Professor Azim Nanji was born in Nairobi, Kenya and educated in Kenya, Tanzania, Makerere University in Uganda, receiving his MA and PhD from McGill Univeristy. He taught at both Canadian and American universities and was the Margaret Gest Professor for the Cross-Cultural Study of Religion at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. He has travelled widely in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Dr Nanji is Co-Chair of the Islam Section at the American Academy of Religion and a member of the Council on Foundations Committee on Religions and Philanthropy. He served as a member of the Master Jury for the Aga Khan Award in 1992. He is author, editor and contributor to various works on religion, Islam and Ismailism.