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
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