Title & Author:

Aga Khan Award for Architecture / [edited by Mohsen Mostafavi].

Publication:

Baden, Switzerland : Lars-Müller Publishers, ©2011.

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The implicate order of architecture / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Steering committee statement -- Master jury report -- Environment -- Wadi Hanifa Wetlands Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- AUB Campus Master Plan, Beirut, Lebanon -- Institution -- Madinat al-Zahra Museum, Cordoba, Spain -- Bridge school, Xiashi Village, China -- Women's Health Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Green School, Bali, Indonesia -- Chandgaon Mosque, Chittagong, Bangladesh -- Nishorgo Oirabot Nature Interpretation Centre, Teknaf, Bangladesh -- Industry -- Ipekyol textile factory, Edirne, Turkey -- Restoration of rubber smokehouse, Kedah, Malaysia -- Dwelling -- Tulou collective housing, Guangzhou, China -- Palmyra House, Alibagh, India -- Dowlet II residential building, Tehran, Iran -- Yodakandyia Community Centre, Hambantota District, Sri Lanka -- Reconstruction of Ngibikan Village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Conser3vation -- Revitalisation of the hypercentre of Tunis, Tunisia -- Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar -- Conservation of Gjirokastra, Albania -- Rehabilitation of Al-Karaouine Mosque, Fez, Morocco -- Essays -- The Shortlist / Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj -- Some reflections on postcolonial modernity / postcolonial realities and architecture of the Muslim world / Salah M. Hassan -- On advocacy / Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj -- On-site review: excursions into ethnographic architectural criticism / Gokhan Karakus -- Landscape as ecological infrastructure for an alternative urbanity / Yu Kongjian -- Reuniting processes and product: lessons for the built environment / Hanif Kara -- What about symbols? / Farshid Moussavi -- Walking lightly on earth / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Hope / Alice Rawsthorn -- Chairman's Award -- Oleg Grabar -- Oleg Grabar's other biography / Mohammad al-Asad -- On knowledge and education / Oleg Grabar -- The role of the historian / Oleg Grabar -- Curriculum vitae.

Summary:

The book presents the shortlist of 19 projects including the winners. What these projects in their variety across culturally diverse portions of the globe have in common is a commitment to design excellence despite constraints of budget, resources, climate, technology, and politics.

ISBN:

9783037782422
3037782420

Subject:

Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization)
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization) Awards.
Architecture Islamic countries 21st century.
Architecture Awards Islamic countries.
Architecture Prix et récompenses Pays musulmans.
Architecture.
Architecture Awards.
Awards.
Islamic countries.

Added entries:

Mostafavi, Mohsen.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization)

Implicate & explicate : Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Implicate and explicate

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272295
Call No.: BIB 205558
Status: Available