A new Archnet exhibition highlights the interior of the Church of Saints Bishai and Bigol in the…
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The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) announces that it is now the home of the Kamil…
Lecture: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
“The Madrasa in Iran and Baghdad under the Saljuqs”
Sustaining Tradition or Embracing Change? Prisse d’Avennes and the Strategies of Visualizing Islamic Architecture of Cairo in French Books
The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT has released its prototype of Layer Cake, a 3-axes mapping tool that enables users to build maps layering narrative, time, and space simultaneously.
Studio Mumbai, founded by Bijoy Jain, works with a human infrastructure of skilled artisans, technicians, and draftsmen who design and build the work directly.
Mar 22, 2017: In projects that range from the scale of the residential block to…
Editor: Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University. Managing Editor: Karen A. Leal, Harvard University. Table of contents…
Zhang Ke, the Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture in fall 2016, presented and discussed…
Marilyn Jenkins-Madina donates collection to the Aga Khan Documentation Center Gift includes images from important…
Gilgit, Nov 19, 2016: Group Captain (r) Muhammad Shah Khan, son of Mir Nazim Khan…
Students of world history remind us how Central Asia, a thousand years ago, “led the…
A screening of the film Desert Flower with guest speaker Deina Abdulkader, PhD, associate professor…
Lecture by Harvard AKPIA Fellow Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge Source:…
While the purpose of design is to understand the challenges, architecture is supposed to solve those challenges and make a contribution to society.
Aga Khan Documentation Center Program Head Sharon C. Smith worked with the Municipality of Baghdad to choose images of works designed by Iraqi architect Mohamed Saleh Makiya (1914-2015)
MIT architect and historian helps the BBC trace the destruction of Syrian antiquities.
Participants included Sharon C. Smith, Aga Khan Documentat Center at MIT Program Head
A conversation between Philippe Rahm (Architect, Philippe Rahm Architects), Nasser Rabbat (Aga Khan Professor, MIT)
Yasser Tabbaa, a prominent scholar in Islamic art and architecture, has donated his archive to AKDC@MIT.
Based on the acclaimed book by Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory
Professor Shahzad Bashir – Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies Stanford University
Stanford Anderson, professor of history and architecture and a former head of the Department of…
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture invites applications for self-supported Associateships to conduct advanced…