{"id":793,"date":"2017-05-03T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=793"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:35:40","slug":"13th-cycle-nominees-for-the-aga-khan-award-for-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2017\/05\/03\/13th-cycle-nominees-for-the-aga-khan-award-for-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Cycle Nominees for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_794\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-794\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-794\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/05\/pjimage.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1900 images of nominated sites are now available.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Information on and images of\u00a0137 projects nominated during\u00a0the 13th cycle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/awards\">Aga Khan Award for Architecture<\/a> (AKAA) is now available on Archnet. \u00a0The prestigious prize is\u00a0awarded every 3 years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The diverse list of AKAA nominees includes a wide variety of projects in more than 40 countries around the world. \u00a0There are rehabilitation and construction projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16111\">Tunisia,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16021\">Spain<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15793\">Palestine<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15715\">Bahrain<\/a>; housing projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15846\">Yemen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15713\">Turkey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16065\">Indonesia<\/a>; educational and cultural facilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15677\">Kenya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16079\">Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15804\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/7192\">Algeria<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16125\">Afghanistan<\/a>; mosques in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15821\">Switzerland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15855\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15709\">Jordan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16116\">China<\/a>; gardens or\u00a0parks in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15829\">Lebanon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16102\">Kuwait<\/a>;\u00a0development projects for disadvantaged communities in <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/16766\">Rwanda<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/15866\">India<\/a>; and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More detailed information is available about the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/963\">19 projects shortlisted<\/a> for the 13th cycle, including <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1215\">the 5 recipients<\/a>\u00a0announced in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on and images of\u00a0137 projects nominated during\u00a0the 13th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is now available on Archnet. \u00a0The prestigious prize is\u00a0awarded every 3 years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. The diverse list of AKAA nominees includes a wide variety of projects in more than 40 countries around the world. \u00a0There are rehabilitation and construction projects in Tunisia,\u00a0Spain,\u00a0Palestine\u00a0and Bahrain; housing projects in Yemen, Turkey, and Indonesia; educational and cultural facilities in Kenya, Iran, Australia, and Algeria\u00a0and Afghanistan; mosques in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,269],"tags":[299,317,320],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-archnet-news","tag-akaa","tag-architecture","tag-archnet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}