Winners announced for 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award
The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced 3 October 2016 in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The venue for the winners’ ceremony, the Al Jahili fort in Al-Ain, was also announced by Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, Chairman of Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport and a member of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi. The winners are: BANGLADESH: 1 Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka (Architect: Marina...
Pritzker 2014 goes to Shigeru Ban
The 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize has gone to Shigeru Ban, celebrated for his fusion of contemporary architecture with humanitarian values and innovative use of everyday and found materials. Ban, 56, professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, will receive the award, often equated with the Nobel Prize in the field of architecture, at a ceremony 13 June 2014 at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Kyoto University said the award...
Book Review: Ancient Persia, by Josef Wiesehöfer
Ancient Persia, by Josef Wiesehöfer, surely must rate as one of the most underrated books on Iran, perhaps because it announces itself as a book about ‘Persia’ rather than Iran of the news headlines. It further delivers—unintentionally, no doubt—a disincentive for those keen to learn more about contemporary and modern Iran. Yes, the one often cited in the West’s War on Terror and what precedes or follows that...
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