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Architecture and Plurality Now Available for Download
The complete 2016 Cyclical Monograph of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Architecture and Plurality, is now available on Archnet. The book features the six projects that were 2016 recipients of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA), as well as the 13 other projects that were shortlisted. It was the 13th cycle (2013-2016) of the Award, presented every three years to recognize projects “that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture” (Source: Aga Khan Award for Architecture). Projects that received the 13th Cycle Award span the globe form China to Denmark. Shortlisted...
New on Archnet: José Luis Argüello, AKPIA Posters (2001-2016)
A virtual version of the exhibit José Luis Argüello, AKPIA Posters (2001-2016) is now available on Archnet. Curated by Sharon C. Smith, AKDC@MIT Program Head, and introduced by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA@MIT), the exhibit contains examples of posters for AKPIA events and courses over a span of 15 years. In addition to posters like those in this exhibition, José Luis Argüello also designs the graphics for the AKPIA@MIT website
CfP: Mamluk Aesthetics and Renaissance Italians, Out from the Ottoman Shadow
“Mamluk Aesthetics and Renaissance Italians, Out from the Ottoman Shadow” Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society (IAS) Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 2019 Conference (Toronto, 17–19 March) Dealing with Islamic-Italian relations in the Mediterranean, early modern scholars have focused almost exclusively on the attitudes of the Venetians towards the Ottoman Turks. And yet, in contrast to the “barbaric” Turks, the Mamluks did not become the object of Christian Crusader rhetoric. If anything, the religion of the Mamluks seems to have mattered less than their economic stability and potential as allies against the Turks in the political-existential imaginations of Christians....
Gazing Through A Lens: Ali Khan Documents Nineteenth Century Iran a film by Azadeh Tajpour
The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT presents Gazing Through A Lens: Ali Khan Documents Nineteenth Century Iran a film by Azadeh Tajpour Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Friday, 18 May 2018 |12:00 — 1:30 pm |MIT, room 3-133 The event is free and open to the public. Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries | 77 Massachusetts Avenue | Bldg. 7-238 Cambridge, MA 02139 | akdc@mit.edu
New Archnet Collections Page
This morning Archnet rolled out a redesigned collections page that will allow users to see more collections on a single page, and to more easily browse collections by category or in their entirety. The initial page shows thumbnails for all collections in a randomized order. Each collection thumbnail contains an image representing it contents, a title bar whose color corresponds to the category of the collection, a brief description, and the category name. Users can switch between categories either by clicking a category name at the bottom on a thumbnail, or by using the menu at the top of the...