ALEX BOZIKOVIC: How often does a spiritual leader win an award for architecture? The Aga Khan is likely the only candidate: The hereditary imam of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and also a major patron of art, architecture and city building who is making a significant mark in Canada.
At a ceremony in Ottawa on Wednesday he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. “In Islam, the role of an Imam is not limited to the domain of faith,” he said in his remarks. “It also includes a deep engagement in the world, in all of the wide and complex issues that affect our quality of life. Among those issues, not many have more impact than architecture and the buildings in which we spend, at all ages, so many days and nights of our lives.”
via Aga Khan wins Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s highest honour – The Globe and Mail.
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