Aga Khan Award for Architecture app is now available.

The Aga Khan Development Network has launched a mobile app featuring the winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture over the past three decades. Video, photographs, drawings and descriptions of each of the 105 winning projects are searchable by building type, and award cycle, and the app stays updated with the latest news from the Award web page.


http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1319/Aga-Khan-Award-for-Architecture-app-is-now-available

Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar and Public Lecture Series in Malaysia

Penang and Kuala Lumpur, 29 October 2011 – Five Malaysian recipients of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the Award’s Director, Mr. Farrokh Derakhshani, participated in a one-day seminar on architecture held in Penang on 29 October 2011.

Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 Award Presentation Ceremony (Doha, Qatar)

Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim

Your Highness the Emir
Your Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
As-salaam-o-aleikum
What a pleasure it is to greet this wonderful audience, including so many friends, old and new, who have helped shape this programme, and who are so essential to its future.

I am especially pleased to salute their Highnesses, the Emir of Qatar and Sheikha Moza. We are honoured by your presence - and grateful for your inspiring example, as you embrace this country’s proud heritage, while also pointing it boldly to the future.

It is hard for me to believe that this Awards process is now a third of a century old! - and that it has involved some 3500 candidate projects and over 100 prize recipients. As we complete the 11th cycle, I am delighted to extend to all of our recipients my warmest congratulations!

The awarding of prizes is in the spotlight tonight - and deservedly so. But the prizes themselves are only the tip of a larger iceberg. The Awards programme also includes a wide array of seminars, exhibitions, lectures, publications and a highly decentralized selection process. This ceremony, in short, marks the culmination of a long and lively conversation.

Full Speech @  http://www.akdn.org/Content/1033

Aga Khan Award for Architecture Announces Master Jury for 2010

Geneva, 8 January 2010 – The members of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The Jury, which selects the recipients of the Award, will convene in January to review the 401 nominated projects and select approximately 25 finalists, which will then be subject to on-site reviews by independent experts. The Jury will meet for a second time in June to select the Award recipients from the group of finalists. Recipients will be announced at a ceremony in autumn 2010.



The nine members of the Master Jury for the 2010 Award cycle are:



Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA

Mr. Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj

Architect; Chief Executive Officer, Syria Trust for Development

Professor Salah Hassan

Art historian and curator; director of Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, USA

Ms. Faryar Javaherian

Architect and curator; co-founder of Gamma Consultants, Iran

Mr. Anish Kapoor

Artist, UK

Professor Kongjian Yu

Landscape architect and urbanist; founder and dean of Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University, China

Mr. Jean Nouvel

Architect; founding partner, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, France

Ms. Alice Rawsthorn

Design critic, International Herald Tribune, UK

Mr. Basem Al Shihabi

Architect; Managing Partner, Omrania & Associates, Saudi Arabia

See biographies of Master Jury members (PDF).

More @ >>> http://www.akdn.org/Content/937





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