Nominations for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture need to successfully celebrate and respond to their context and facilitate interaction between international and local architects, say industry experts.
Speaking at a seminar on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) sponsored by the American University of Sharjah’s School of Architecture and Design (SA+D), Muslim scholars and architects highlighted three projects from the 2007 Aga Khan Award cycle that successfully accomplished this feat.
The first, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa was built in the style and language of Ethiopian tradition and employed local builders, materials and techniques from its inception.
“This building responds to its context with poetic sensibility,” said Dr Yasser Elsheshtawy of the UAE University in Al Ain.
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