1 institutions f and prospects of and prospects velopment the into e amily o ar f a elf . the w e v that to long-term can contribute change o t e to economic developmentto economic to cul- ork (AKDN), t is dedication to self-sustaining devel- is dedication to self-sustaining ted by His Highness The Aga Khan The Aga ted by His Highness impr . is a commitment The second to the vig- onomic and social de ea y o people in countries of the developing world, of the developing people in countries particularly in Asia and Africa. of activityThough and expert- their spheres social develop- from ise differ—ranging men at institutions share ture—AKDN least principles thatthree guide their work. The first opmen advancementeconomic and social harmo- n with distinct yet mandates complementary t orous participation of local communities in participation of local communities orous all development efforts. Finally, all Network for responsibility institutions seek shared positiv cr AKTC physical are Buildings and public spaces in societies both of culture manifestations past and present. represent They human thatendeavors can enhance the quality of life, and commu- self-understanding foster nity values, opportunities and expand for ec future.Trust Khan The Aga is an Culture for partintegral of Khan Development the Aga Netw the Aga Khan.the Aga AKPIA in an effort to respond tion, to promote visibility of to promote the a v orld. es onser the w the cultural and educational needs of and educational the cultural er diverse constituency drawn from all from drawn constituency diverse om His Highness v o is dedicated is dedicated to the study of Islamic architecture, urbanism, culture, visual and c AKPIA in 1979,Established Khan the Aga at Islamic Architecture for Programs at and University Harvard the Technology ofMassachusetts Institute supported for are by endowments instruction, research, and student aid fr a o the on improving Along with the focus teaching ofart Islamic and architecture in of excellence and setting a standard research,professional AKPIA also contin- ually striv heritage. pan-Islamic cultural t issue 4

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The Fall 2007 NOVEMBER 19 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR “AN EVENING WITH...” “Nebukadnezar and Saladin - The Iconography ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES MIT Lecture Series of History in Contemporary Political 2007–8: A FORUM FOR ISLAMIC Representation in the Middle East” ART AND ARCHITECTURE OCTOBER 22 Stefan Heidemann

A Two presentations in the Stella Room AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow All lectures will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. G A (MIT 7-338). Friederich Schiller Universität in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, K

H Refreshments will be served. Department of Semitic Philology and Islamic Harvard University, 485 Broadway. Lectures are A N Studies free and open to the public. P R Jena, Germany O “Orientalism, Self-Orientalism and Identity G

R Politics: The Mosque in Western Europe and FALL SEMESTER A

issue M North America” November 26

F “Antiquarianism and Connoisseurship in 19th THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007 4 O Nebahat Avcioglu 2 R Visiting Associate Professor, AKPIA@MIT century Cairo: Some Reconsiderations” Istanbul in Search of Its Architext: The City I S

L Columbia University Institute for Mercedes Volait and the Palace in the Eighteenth Century akpia A akt c M ScholarsParis, France Centre National de Recherche Scientifique Dr. Nebahat Avcıo˘glu I december 2007 C T A Paris, France Visiting Professor, MIT Aga Khan Program H R C E “Mosques-to-go” H A I G

T Azra Aksamija Thursday, November 1, 2007 A E For further information, please consult: C

K PhD Student, AKPIA@MIT ‘Magic Squares,’ Central Viscera, and T

H http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/ U A R Artist Affiliate, Center for Advanced Visual Transcribed Text: Envisioning Chinese N E lecturescurrent.htm & T Studies at MIT Medicine in Fourteenth-Century Iran R

U Dr. Persis Berlekamp S All events are free and open to the public. T Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, F All events are on Mondays from 5:30 O

R University of Chicago to 7:30pm in room MIT 3-133 C U L T Thursday, December 6, 2007 U R

E Domestic Architecture in Damascus during the Seventeenth Century: A View from the Tribunal Court Records of the City Dr. Abdal-Razzaq Moaz Director of the Historical Museum of Damascus

Head of Euro-Med Projects in Syria 2 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Program AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

SPRING SEMESTER Thursday, May 1, 2008 The Contribution of the South Arabian Thursday, February 14, 2008 Civilization to the Creative Process of Provincialism and Empire: The Lifeworld of the Umayyad Iconography Ottoman Provincial Elite in the Dr. Nadia Ali

A Napoleonic/Selimian Age Doctor in History of Islamic Arts, University G A Dr. Ali Yaycıo˘glu of Aix-en-Provence, IREMAM (The Institute K

H Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan of Research on the Arabic and Islamic World) A N Program Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan P R Program O G

R Thursday, March 13, 2008 A

issue M The Cleveland Masihnama: Playing at the The AKP Harvard Lecture Series takes place

F Mughal Court 4 O at Harvard University's Sackler Museum, 2 R Dr. Pedro Moura Carvalho 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Room 318. I S

L Lecturer, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, akpia A akt c M Lisbon Lectures are held on Thursdays at 5:30pm I december 2007 C T A Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan and are open to the public. For further H R C E Program information, contact the Aga Khan Program H A I G T at Harvard University. A E C

K Thursday, April 3, 2008 T H U A R Translation or Invention? The Formation of the N E & T “Saracenic Style” in Norman Sicily R

U Dr. Jeremy Johns S T Professor, Oriental Institute, University of F O

R Oxford C

U Director of the Khalili Research Centre L T U R

E Thursday, April 17, 2008 A Medieval Kurgan: Turkic Burial Customs and International Trade Dr. Renata Holod Professor, History of Art Department, University

of Pennsylvania 3 Curator, Near East Section, PENN Museum AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty of Rum,” are published as Muqarnas 24 (2007). The courses she is offering this year include her This special volume includes a preface by Gülru core course,“The Age of Süleyman”; a seminar, and Sibel, titled “Entangled Discourses: “Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchanges: Islamic and Gülru Necipog˘ lu Scrutinizing Orientalist and Nationalist Legacies European Courts”; and a proseminar,“Orientalist in the Architectural Historiography of the ‘Lands Legacies: Paradigmatic Discourses in the Field of

A Since 1993 Gülru Necipog˘ lu has been the Aga of Rum,’” and Gülru’s article,“Creation of a Islamic Art.” She is also supervising two under- G

A Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography graduate senior theses, one on the Alcazar Palace K

H Harvard University and Editor of Muqarnas and of ‘Classical’ Ottoman Architecture.” in Seville and the other on the Sultaniyya A

N Supplements to Muqarnas. Her book, The Age of Mausoleum near Zanjan in Iran. P

R Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Between the fall of 2006 and the spring semes- O

G Empire (London and Princeton, 2005), was ter of 2007, Gülru lectured at the Rhode Island R A awarded the 2006 Fuat Köprülü Book Prize by School of Design Museum and delivered the issue M

F the Turkish Studies Association. Gülru was also Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture at the School of 4 O R elected last April to the American Philosophical Oriental and African Studies in the University of David Roxburgh I S

L Society, based in Philadelphia, for “promoting London. Her scheduled public lectures during the akpia A akt c M useful knowledge.” 2007–8 academic year include “Aesthetics of David J. Roxburgh is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal I december 2007 C Ornament in the Ottoman and Safavid Regimes Professor of Islamic Art History. Between the T A H R C E Her most recent publications include:“L’idée de of Visuality,” the Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture fall of 2006 and the spring semester of 2007, H A I

G décor dans les régimes de visualité islamiques,” at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University (April David presented lectures at the University of T A E

C in the exhibition catalogue Purs décors?Arts de 9, 2008); and “Architectural Dialogues across the Washington (in the Silk Road series), the K T H U l’Islam, regards du XIXe siècle: Collections des Arts A Early Modern Mediterranean World,” in the Art Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (in a R N E Décoratifs, ed. Rémi Labrusse (Paris, 2007), and History Department of the University of series on the sensuous in art), and at the con- & T R

U “Qur’anic Inscriptions on Sinan’s Imperial Wisconsin at Madison (April 25, 2008). She will ference “Collecting Across Cultures in the Early S

T Mosques: A Comparison with Their Safavid and also deliver the concluding remarks as discus- Modern World,” hosted by USC-Huntington F O Mughal Counterparts” in Word Of God, Art of sant in a panel chaired by Alan Chong and Early Modern Studies Institute. Since the fall R

C Man:The Qur’an and Its Creative Expressions, ed. Stefano Carboni and titled “Islamic and Italian of 2006, David has focused most of his ener- U L

T Fahmida Suleman (Oxford, 2007). Art: Creating Shared Histories,” at the College Art gies on curating two exhibitions for the U

R Association annual meeting in February. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. One was co- E With Sibel Bozdo¤an Gülru edited the proceed- curated with Harvard University Art Museum’s ings of a conference they had both organized This summer Gülru spent a week with a Dutch Mary McWilliams; titled “Traces of the under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program at film crew shooting a television documentary on Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. Harvard University, with a generous grant from the Ottoman chief architect Sinan. The hour-long 1600–1900,” the exhibition presents a private

the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva. The program, in Dutch and English, is directed by collection of calligrapher’s tools and furniture 4 conference proceedings, titled Historiography Remmelt Lukien and features Gülru as the > and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands main narrator. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty Post-doctoral Fellows > together with calligraphies from the same period. The other exhibition, titled “Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an,” Nadia Ali Pedro Moura Carvalho consists of folios from Qur’ans between the

A seventh and fifteenth centuries. Both exhibi- Nadia received her MA in 1999 from the Pedro is a Lecturer at the Universidade Católica G

A tions run from 28 October 2007 to 3 February Department of History of Art and her PhD Portuguesa, Lisbon, and is Guest Curator of the K

H 2008 and have accompanying publications, from the Department of Arabic Studies, both exhibition “Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange A

N published by the MFAH Houston and distrib- at the University of Aix-en-Provence. Her dis- between India and Portugal around 1600,” which P

R uted by Yale University Press. David also sertation, titled “The Creative Process of will open in February 2008 at the Isabella O

G served as project developer for a film, to be Umayyad Iconography” and supervised by Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. He is also the R A Claude Audebert and Yves Porter, deals mainly author of the accompanying catalogue. After

M displayed at the “Traces of the Calligrapher” issue

F exhibition, showing contemporary calligraph- with mechanisms of transmission and com- earning an MA and a PhD in Islamic art and 4 O R er Mohamed Zakariyya at work. position; she examines the part played by for- archaeology from the School of Oriental and I S

L mal context and some inherited thematic African Studies, University of London, he joined akpia A akt c M This summer David traveled to Venice, Vienna, structures in the composition of the Umayyad the Khalili Collection in London. As a deputy I december 2007 C Budapest, and Istanbul visiting museum col- iconographical programs of Qusayr ‘Amra, curator, he was involved in the planning and T A H R C E lections and the biennials in Venice and Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, and Khirbat al-Mafjar. organization of the exhibitions “Ornements de la H A I

G Istanbul. Before leaving, he completed an arti- To complete this work she spent a year in Perse: Islamic Patterns in 19th-Century Europe T A E

C cle for The Book of Travels: Genre, Itinerary, Syria and traveled in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. from the Khalili Collection” (Leighton House K T H U

A Ethnology and Pilgrimage from 1250–1650, ed. She has recently published articles in Annales Museum, London, 2002) and “Heaven on Earth, R N E Palmira Brummett (Leiden, forthcoming islamologiques 22 (2006), and Bulletin critique Art from the Islamic Lands:Works from the State & T R

U 2008). The title of his essay is “Ruy González des annales islamologique 22 (2006) and, in Hermitage Museum and the Khalili Collection” S

T de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and cooperation with Yves Porter, is currently com- (Hermitage Rooms/Somerset House, London, F O Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404.”He pleting a book on the history of Islamic art. As 2004). Earlier, Pedro curated the exhibition “The R

C now returns to a book project with Renata a recipient of a 2007–8 Aga Khan Postdoctoral World of Lacquer: 2000 Years of History” held at U L

T Holod on Myron Bement Smith and to a long- Fellowship, she is conducting research on her the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, in U

R term project on the art and architecture of new project concerning the contribution of 2001 and edited the English and Portuguese ver- E Islamic pilgrimage. Himyarite civilization to the formation of sions of its catalogue. Among his forthcoming Umayyad figurative art programs. publications are Gems and Jewels of Mughal This year he is offering an introductory lecture India, vol. 18 of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of course on Islamic visual and portable arts in Islamic Art (in press), and the section on Safavid

context (650–1650 CE), a proseminar on the ceramics in A Rival to China: Later Islamic Pottery, 5 art of the Qur’an, and a new graduate semi- vol. 10 in the same series. nar on word and image in Persian painting. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Post-doctoral Fellows

Mattia Guidetti Abdal-Razzaq Moaz Ali Yayciog˘ lu

A Mattia was born in Milan and graduated in Abdal-Razzaq Moaz was Syrian Deputy Minister Ali was born, grew up, and went to school in G

A 2002 with a Master of Arts degree from Ca’ of Culture, in charge of archaeology and cultural Ankara, Turkey. After graduating from Middle K

H Foscari University in Venice, specializing in heritage, from 2002 until 2007, and Director East Technical University, he studied Ottoman A

N oriental languages. In spring 2006 he General of Antiquities and Museums from 2000 and Islamic History at Bilkent University and P

R submitted to the same university his PhD until 2002. He received his Doctorate in 1991 McGill. In 1998, he came to Harvard to do a O

G thesis about the role of antiquity in Umayyad from Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, in PhD in Ottoman history. He has just R A Arab and Islamic studies and Islamic art and completed his PhD thesis, titled “The

M artistic and architectural expression. He took issue

F part in two international congresses: at the archaeology. He taught history of Islamic art and Provincial Challenge: Regionalism, Crisis, 4 O R University of Parma in 2004 (“Late Antiquity architecture at the University of Damascus and, and Integration in the Late Ottoman Empire I S

L and the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean as a visiting professor at Harvard University in (1792–1812). During his graduate years, he akpia A akt c M Area”) and in Damascus at the Institut 1999, gave a course on Arab cities during the taught Ottoman history for a year in the I december 2007 C français du Proche-Orient in 2006 (“Umayyad Ottoman period. He also taught collaboratively History Department at Bilkent University. T A H R C E Legacies”). He is editor of the forthcoming in the graduate program on cities in the Middle He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the H A I

G volume Syria, a multiauthor overview of Syrian East at the École d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville Aga Khan Program. The project on which he T A E

C history from antiquity to the present, and is (1992–95). He has previously been a visiting is working concerns the cultural milieu of K T H U

A preparing a monograph about late antiquity scholar three times at Harvard University: first as the Ottoman provincial elite in the R N E and early Islam, which will be an excerpt from an Aga Khan Program Fellow (1993–94), next as nineteenth-century Balkans and Anatolia. & T R

U his PhD thesis. a Fulbright Fellow in the History Department S

T (1994–95), and then in Department of Urban F O Planning and Design (1996). In 1994, he was also R

C a visiting scholar at Granada University, Spain. U L T U

R Within this Aga Khan Fellowship period, Moaz E will present some of the remarkable findings from his two-and-a-half-year study of a rich primary source; the title of his project is “Architecture in Damascus during the 17th

Century: A View from the Tribunal Court Records 6 of the City.” AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Students

Anastassiia Alexandra Botchkareva Chanchal Dadlani Zeynep Oguz˘

A Anastassiia is originally from Moscow but Chanchal is spending the 2007-8 academic year Zeynep is in her second year of the PhD G

A moved around Europe and the US as she was at Harvard. Over the past year, she continued Program in the History of Art and Architecture K

H growing up. She finished high school in dissertation research abroad with the support at Harvard. She received her BA and MA A

N Minneapolis and for the past five years has of an Aga Khan Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays degrees from Middle East Technical University, P

R lived in New York, where she got her BA at DDRA Fellowship. Her travels took her to Ankara, the latter in the Department of O

G Columbia University, studying philosophy of museums, archives, and architectural sites in History of Architecture. During her first year in R A Aix-en-Provence, Paris, London, Jaipur, the PhD program, she expanded her knowl-

M mind, art history, and creative writing. During issue

F her time at Columbia she also spent a semes- Aurangabad, and Delhi. edge of Islamic art and architecture while 4 O R ter studying art history in Paris. Before coming learning Arabic. Thanks to the Aga Khan Fund, I S

L to Harvard she worked for a year at a small Currently, she is teaching a sophomore group she spent the past summer at the Harvard- akpia A akt c M architecture nonprofit, the Paul Rudolph tutorial in the Department of History of Art and Koç Intensive Ottoman and Turkish Summer I december 2007 C Foundation. At Harvard she is excited to be Architecture at Harvard. The tutorial surveys School in Turkey. She looks forward to further T A H R C E studying Islamic miniature painting. urbanism and architecture in South Asia from specializing in architecture and urban form H A I

G the medieval to the early colonial periods. in the Middle East and the Eastern T A E

C Chanchal is also hard at work on her disserta- Mediterranean from the late Middle Ages to K T H U

A tion, titled “Twilight of the Mughals? the early modern period, and in the formation R N E Architectural and Urban Change in the Late of Ottoman cities of that time. She also plans & T R

U Mughal Empire,” which examines architectural to continue working on her Arabic and S

T projects and their reception in seventeenth- and enhancing her understanding of Islamic art. F O eighteenth-century North India. R C U L T U R E

7 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Students

Jennifer Pruitt Ünver Rüstem Suzan Yalman

A Jennifer is writing her dissertation,“A Tale of Two Ünver is in the second year of a doctoral program Suzan is currently a predoctoral fellow at Koç G

A Cities: Locating the Courtly and the Urban in in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University’s Research Center for Anatolian K

H Fatimid Visual Culture,” from Dubai, United Arab and plans to work on late Ottoman architecture. Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul, where she has A

N Emirates. In her thesis, she analyzes a corpus of He spent his first year expanding his knowledge started writing her dissertation,“A Period of P

R objects, architectural projects, and urban devel- of Islamic art—particularly as regards its interac- ‘Transformation’: Religion, Urbanism, and Identity O

G opments that can be dated securely to the tion with other artistic traditions—as well as in the Architectural Patronage of Sultan Alaeddin R A undertaking intensive study of Arabic. During Keykubad (r. 1220–37).” She has been working in

M reigns of al-‘Aziz (975–96), al-Hakim (996–1021), issue

F and al-Zahir (1021–36). In doing so, she hopes to the summer, he attended the Harvard-run Turkey for the past two academic years, with the 4 O R offer a systematic, historically contextualized Ottoman Summer School on the Turkish island support of a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship from the I S

L narrative of this pivotal moment in Islamic of Cunda, with Aga Khan support, improving his American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) and akpia A akt c M artistic production. existing knowledge of the Ottoman language an Olivia James Traveling Fellowship from the I december 2007 C and gaining experience in reading various calli- Archaeological Institute of America. She is based T A H R C E After spending the previous year conducting graphic and chancery scripts. He also spent part in Istanbul, with access to research libraries and H A I

G field research in Cairo’s dusty medieval streets, of the summer in London writing entries for a manuscript collections in the city (in particular T A E

C Jennifer is adjusting slowly to Dubai’s dazzling catalogue accompanying the exhibition “Objects the Topkapı Museum and Süleymaniye libraries) K T H U

A architectural projects and is fascinated by the of Instruction:Treasures of the School of Oriental and has traveled to Anatolia to survey Seljuk R N E Gulf’s adaptation and interpretation of medieval and African Studies,” which is running until architecture, including archaeological sites such & T R

U visual idioms. She happily spent the summer in December 2007 and features a broad selection as Alaeddin’s palaces, and to access the General S

T Harvard’s libraries, with the support of a writing of Asian and African artifacts. The pieces on Waqf Ministry Archives in Ankara (Vakıflar Genel F O grant from the Institute of Ismaili Studies. This which Ünver wrote come from across the Islamic Müdürlü¤ü). Research highlights from the past R

C fall, Jennifer plans to take advantage of her world and include a hand-painted Ottoman atlas year include studying Seljuk caravanserais along U L

T Emirati base to attend the conference “Rivers of of the eighteenth century, an illuminated Qajar the trade route from east of Kayseri all the way to U

R Paradise:Water in Islamic Art and Culture” in Qur’an section, and a cockerel-spouted luster- Alanya, and traveling with former Aga Khan stu- E Doha, Qatar, and to travel to India. She will spend ware ewer from medieval Iran. Now that he dents Oya Pancarog˘ lu and Persis Berlekamp to the spring concluding dissertation research in is back at Harvard, Ünver plans to continue Kubadabad, the Seljuk palace site west of Konya European museum collections and will return to deepening his art-historical knowledge and and Lake Beys¸ehir. Cairo as a fellow of the American Research improving his language skills in preparation for

Center in Egypt. writing his thesis. Suzan received her BA in History and Near 8 Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard > AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Students Aga Khan FAS Harvard Affiliated >

in June 1999. Before returning to Harvard in September 2001 to enter the PhD program in the Jesse Howell Katie Pfohl History of Art and Architecture, she worked in the departments of Islamic Art and Education at the

A Jesse Howell is in the second year of the joint A second-year doctoral student in American art

G Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as a A College Summer Intern and later as Research History/Middle Eastern Studies PhD program at history, Katie might seem an unlikely affiliate of K

H Harvard University. His research focuses on the the Aga Khan Program. However, her specific

A Assistant for the online educational resource N Timeline of Art History. cultural interaction between the Ottoman focus on American Orientalism, or North African P

R Empire and the Italian states of the late fifteenth and Middle Eastern influences on American cul- O

G and early sixteenth centuries. Jesse’s project has tural production, makes an in-depth knowledge R A been deeply informed by the pathbreaking of Islamic art history and languages an essential issue M

F research and inspiring teaching of Gülru part of her academic and professional develop- 4 O R Necipog˘ lu, Aga Khan Professor of the History of ment, both ideologically and practically. I S

L Yasmine Al-Saleh Art and Architecture at Harvard. He plans to uti- akpia A akt c M lize both Ottoman and Italian sources to investi- Katie’s work to date traces this under-researched I december 2007 C gate questions of cultural porosity and reciprocal and under-theorized connection through a sus- T A Thanks to the Aga Khan Fund, Yasmine will H R C E spend the upcoming academic year conducting influence in the early modern eastern tained engagement with both American and H A I

G Mediterranean world. After completing his BA at Islamic art. Her research includes work on a T dissertation research on Mamluk and Ottoman A E

C UC Santa Cruz he worked in the cultural sector in number of heretofore unexamined topics, K talismanic material. She will be traveling to her T H U

A San Francisco and Berlin, Germany, returning to including the US government-sponsored date R home country, Kuwait, and then to Istanbul, with N E academia with two years at UC Berkeley before palm farming industry in the American & T frequent trips to Egypt as well as to neighboring R

U countries of Europe. She also plans to continue coming to Harvard. Last summer he attended Southwest, through which she argues that the S T working on her Turkish and Ottoman Turkish the Harvard/Koç University Ottoman Language United States cultivated an agricultural and ideo- F O Summer Intensive Program in Cunda,Turkey. logical link to North Africa and the Middle East; a

R while conducting research in the archives

C research project on Qur’ans written by highly

U and collection. L

T educated West African Muslim slaves in the U

R American South in the eighteenth and nine-

E Yasmine received her BA in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1996 and her MA in art history, teenth centuries, for which she will travel with a focus in Islamic material and visual cul- throughout Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama ture, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. this winter; and a project that mines Harvard’s collections of both American and Islamic art in > 9 Aga Khan FAS Harvard Affiliated > order to situate nineteenth-century American trompe-l’oeil painting, which often featured Islamic art objects, within the broader context of Ana Pulido-Rull Peter J. Lu America’s museological display of Islamic art and

A its ideological investment in the representational Since she was a college student at Mexico’s Peter is a PhD student in the department of G

A strategies attributed to Islamic art more broadly National University Ana has been attracted to physics at Harvard. Aside from his thesis, he has K

H during the nineteenth century. and has worked with sixteenth-century illumi- pursued several investigations combining the A

N nated manuscripts. Her area of study is pre- history of art and architecture with scientific P

R As an undergraduate at Northwestern Columbian and colonial manuscripts, and she is techniques and ideas. He discovered evidence of O

G University, Katie studied in Morocco, and she currently working on her PhD dissertation in that the first use of diamond, in prehistoric China, as R A spent this past summer in Cairo continuing her field. This specialization, however, has not limited well as the first use of precision compound issue M

F study of the Arabic language, pursuing a but rather fostered her interest in sixteenth- machinery, in ancient China, which was featured 4 O R research project in the archives of the Egyptian century manuscript production in regions other in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica’s 2005 Book of I S

L Museum, and working with a contemporary than New Spain. She is fortunate enough to be the Year. akpia A akt c M Egyptian art gallery. Deeply committed to per- working now on a document from Harvard’s I december 2007 C fecting her Arabic and furthering her research on Houghton Library that was produced around As a result of these discoveries, Peter was T A H R C E Islamic art and culture in tandem with meeting 1532 by anonymous artists in Venice for the invited to Turkmenistan as a guest of the US H A I

G her requirements as an Americanist, Katie hopes Ottoman sultan Süleyman after his military tri- Department of State, where his lectures in T A E

C to continue to broaden the depth and breadth umph in Hungary.This pangyric is a fascinating, Ashgabat were the first presented in that coun- K T H U

A of her expertise in Islamic art and culture politically charged luxury item that was try since the fall of the Soviet Union. During that R N E through continued collaboration with the designed to praise the virtues of Sultan trip, he also visited several other countries in & T R

U Aga Khan program. Süleyman through its captivating text and Central Asia, encountering for the first time the S

T images. In addition, it presents a view of the splendors of Islamic architecture in the form of F O complex political relations among the Ottomans, marvelous Timurid tilings in Samarkand and R

C the Hapsburgs, and Venice in sixteenth-century Bukhara. At the Abdullah Khan madrasa in U L

T Europe. Last year, in November 2006, the Aga Bukhara, he first noticed the presence of five-fold U

R Khan Program provided funds for Ana’s research and ten-fold motifs, which in a completely differ- E trip to the British Library, London, to learn more ent context play a prominent role in dictating about the provenance and authorship of the the arrangements of atoms in quasicrystalline unpublished manuscript; the program also materials. This planted the seed of a question: helped pay for its photography. was it possible that Islamic architects might

have been aware of special types of geometry? 10 > Aga Khan FAS Harvard Affiliated

> This discovery, of the widespread usage of girih Following publication of the paper, Peter traveled Completely ignorant of Islam and its architec- tiles, formed the basis for Peter’s paper in Prof. with some support from AKPIA to London to ture, Peter returned to Harvard from Uzbekistan Necipog˘ lu’s class that semester. But one tiling in examine architectural scrolls at the Victoria and and consulted with Thomas Lentz, director of the particular, on the Darb-i Imam shrine (1453 CE, Albert museum, and to a number of sites in Iran Harvard University Art Museums, whom Peter Isfahan, Iran) was especially interesting: this pat- for further research; during that trip, he also had met in the context of Chinese art when tern contains two overlapping girih patterns, appeared several times on national television to Lentz was director of the Smithsonian’s Freer which can be constructed with girih tiles in two describe his discoveries and spoke at a national Gallery of Asian Art. Lentz, an Islamicist, lent different sizes. Motivated by this observation, teacher’s conference. He plans to return to Iran in Peter a copy of Prof. Gülru Necipo˘glu’s Topkapı Peter collaborated with Prof. Paul Steinhardt at 2008 and has been invited by the embassy of Scroll. The following fall, Peter enrolled in Prof. Princeton, his former thesis advisor, and the two Uzbekistan to visit there again, to continue his Necipo˘glu ’s class on medieval dynastic Islamic found that the small girih pattern could be gen- research on these fascinating tilings. 4issue architecture. He began trying to understand the erated from the large girih pattern in a special mathematics behind the formations of tiling way, by substituting combinations of small girih Links to the original paper and media coverage akpia patterns, particularly the ones with five-fold and tiles for each of the large ones. By applying this can be found at Peter’s website, aktc ten-fold motifs, and thus turned back again to procedure over and over again, an infinite pat- http://www.peterlu.org december 2007 the Topkapı scroll. There he noticed that, on top tern with ten-fold symmetry that never repeats of the dark-line girih-patterns, which would have can be generated. This is the essence of a qua- been translated into decorative motifs expressed sicrystal pattern, something that was not under- in brick and tile, some scroll panels had dotted stood in the West until the 1970s, more than five red outlines. These red lines enclosed areas that centuries after Darb-i Imam. occurred only in a small number of shapes. Surprisingly, many panels in the Topkapı scroll, When published by Peter and Prof. Steinhardt in containing quite different dark-line girih pat- the journal Science, this discovery received a terns, show red lines outlining the same five great deal of international media attention. The shapes. By examining thousands of slides in the paper was covered on the front pages of the Fine Arts library and with the assistance of Jeff New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Spurr, Peter subsequently found that these Tribune, the Times of London, the International shapes, which he named “girih tiles,” could be Herald Tribune, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), Today’s used to construct the patterns of a wide variety Zaman (Turkey), Gulf News (UAE) and the Brunei of girih patterns on buildings from most of the Times. The discovery was noted by most of the major medieval Islamic dynasties distributed world’s major national-audience newspapers. throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. 11 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Sta≠ MUQARNAS The Aga Khan Program at Harvard publishes scholarly works on the history of Islamic art and architecture. The program sponsors publi- Julia Bailey Rich Burns cation of the respected scholarly journal Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of

A Julia has been Managing Editor of Muqarnas: Rich is the Program Coordinator and Research the Islamic World, a yearly volume of articles G

A An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic Assistant of the Aga Khan Program at on art and architectural history edited by K

H World since 2002. She received her MA in art Harvard. He oversees all operations of the Professor Gülru Necipog˘ lu. Editions of A

N history from the University of Massachusetts, program, including the lecture series and Muqarnas are complemented by Supplements P

R Amherst, and was enrolled in the PhD pro- postdoctoral fellowships. He also assists the to Muqarnas: Studies and Sources on Islamic O

G gram in Fine Arts at Harvard before becoming Program Director, Gülru Necipo¤lu,˘ with Art and Architecture, which focus on textual R A research towards her lectures, classes, primary sources for visual culture. Julia Bailey,

M Assistant Curator of Islamic and Later Indian issue

F Art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and publications. Managing Editor, has recently completed 4 O R Cambridge, and then Assistant Curator in the preparation of Muqarnas 24, which contains I S

L Asian and Textile Departments of the Rich is actively researching and developing his revised versions of thirteen papers presented akpia A akt c M Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. interests in global politics and American at the May 2006 conference “Historiography I december 2007 C foreign policy as an ALM degree candidate in and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the T A H R C E In 2006–7 Julia readied for publication government at the Harvard Extension School. “Lands of Rum,” organized by Gülru Necipog˘ lu H A I

G Muqarnas 24, a special volume titled History and Sibel Bozdoÿan, who provide the preface. T A E

C and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the Published by Brill, this volume is now available K T H U

A “Lands of Rum,” which contains revised from the publisher. R N E versions of the papers delivered in May 2006 & T R

U at a conference sponsored by the Aga Khan S

T Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard F O and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. This R

C volume is now available through the U L

T publisher, Brill. U R E Julia’s interests also include carpets and tex- tiles of the Islamic world; she is a contributing editor of Hali: Carpet, Textile & Islamic Art and a member of the Advisory Council of the

Textile Museum, Washington, DC. 12 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKP Harvard Librarians at Harvard’s Center for European Studies In September 2007 András was an invited (http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/488). participant at an international conference, “The Legal, Political and Historical András J. Riedlmayer In June 2007 András took part in the twenty- Consequences of the Hague Judgments,” in ninth annual conference of MELCOM Tuzla, Bosnia, where he addressed issues

A András is the Bibliographer in Islamic Art International, in Sarajevo, Bosnia- related to cultural heritage and international G

A and Architecture at the Documentation Herzegovina, where he presented a paper law and the future disposition of the K

H Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic titled “Islamic Manuscript Libraries in the archives of the Hague War Crimes Tribunal A

N Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library. A Balkans since 1945: Destruction and after it closes its doors. P

R specialist in the history and culture of the Preservation” O

G Ottoman Balkans, he has spent much of the (http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?Conte Of course, the above lists only events outside R A past decade documenting the destruction of ntID=108312). of the premises of AKP Documentation issue M

F archives, libraries, and architectural heritage Center for Islamic Art and Architecture at 4 O R during the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina Following the conference, András accompa- Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, which András has I S

L (1992–95) and Kosovo (1998–99). nied Dr. Muhamed Hamidovic, former dean headed since 1985, and where he spends akpia A akt c M of the Faculty of Architecture at the most of his days, helping to build world-class I december 2007 C In November 2006, András again went to University of Sarajevo, to Banja Luka, where research resources and assisting the stu- T A H R C E The Hague to testify as an expert witness Professor Hamidovic is overseeing the recon- dents, faculty, and visiting scholars who use H A I

G before the International Criminal Tribunal for struction of the sixteenth-century mosque of those resources for the study of the arts and T A E

C the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in the war Ferhad Pasha Sokolovic (http://archnet.org/ architecture of the Islamic world. András cur- K T H U

A crimes trial of former Serbian President library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=9241). The rently serves as president of the Turkish R N E Milan Milutinovic and five senior Serbian historic mosque, which was blown up and Studies Association and is a member of the & T R

U military and security officials. He presented completely leveled in 1993, is now being Middle East Librarians’ Association’s S

T evidence on the destruction of mosques and painstakingly reconstructed using original Committee on Iraqi Libraries. He is also the F O other built heritage in Kosovo during the materials recovered from beneath tons of cofounder of the Bosnian Manuscripts R

C 1998–99 conflict. refuse in the city dump and from the bottom Ingathering Project (http://www.openbook. U L

T of the municipal reservoir. Watching hun- ba/bmss/index.html) and editor of the U

R In December 2006, he joined Azra Aksamija, dreds of the recovered centuries-old stones International Justice Watch (JUSTWATCH-L) E an AKPIA doctoral student in History, Theory, of the destroyed mosque being identified by list and of H-TURK, the H-Net list for and Criticism of Architecture at M.I.T., in pre- photogrammetric scanning and set into Ottoman and Turkish Studies. senting a panel, “Europe’s Other Urban place by workmen on the site was an amaz- Heritage: The Creation and Destruction of ing and deeply moving experience.

Islamic Spaces in Bosnian Towns and Cities,” 13 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKPIA Harvard Librarians In addition to building the visual resource base Urban Expansion in Early Modern Italy and for the program and the community, during the Mamluk Egypt,” in which she explores a similar 2006–7 academic year Sharon was invited to trajectory in cultural milieus through an exami- Sharon Smith speak about Islamic architecture at Northeastern nation of the conscious redefinition of urban University, Boston, and at the Qutbi Masjid in space during the late fifteenth century. In con-

A Since joining the Aga Khan Program for Islamic North Billerica, MA. She was also asked to lecture junction with her dissertation and professional G

A Architecture at Harvard University in August on teaching with media resources in Middle work, she has attended institutes in Florence, K

H 2003, Sharon has been responsible for research- Eastern Studies at a symposium organized by Italy, and Monterey, CA. A

N ing, establishing authority records, and catalogu- the National Institute for Technology and Liberal P

R ing the approximately 100,000 slides that con- Education (NITLE) at Lake Forest College, IL. At While at Binghamton University, Sharon devel- O

G stitute the program’s collection to date, encom- “Making a Difference through Research,” a con- oped and taught courses in Persian art and R A passing all aspects of Islamic art and architec- ference held at Binghamton University, she pre- architecture, Istanbul before and after the issue M

F ture. A primary goal of her project is the digitiza- sented a paper titled “Commensurate Studies in Ottoman conquest, Byzantium and the 4 O R tion of the collection, with the incorporation of Art History: An Approach in the Post-Orientalism Mediterranean world, and Islamic painting. I S

L all images and data into Harvard University Era.”For the Outreach Center at the Center for Additionally, she has guest lectured on these and akpia A akt c M Libraries’ public catalog of visual materials,VIA Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, she other topics in Middle Eastern art and architec- I december 2007 C (available at http://via.lib.harvard.edu). The cata- taught two workshops on Islamic art curriculum ture at several universities and colleges in New T A H R C E log has been established employing the guide- for New England elementary through high York and California. H A I

G lines of Harvard College Library’s Islamic school teachers. Earlier in the academic year she T A E

C Classification System, edited and revised by coauthored with Cristina Pallini “A Passage to For the post-9/11 initiative on Arab Culture and K T H U

A Sharon and available on-line India: Urban Change in Alexandria and Cairo in Civilization, sponsored by the National Institute R N E (http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/finearts/ the 15th and 19th Centuries,” for the twelfth for Technology and Liberal Education with funds & T R

U islamicclass/index.html). Over the course of the international conference of the International from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she S

T project, her work has covered a vast amount of Planning History Society (IPHS), titled “Cross- served as content consultant and contributor F O material, including Islamic architecture in national Transfer of Planning Ideas and Local for Arab art and architecture (see http:// R

C Alexandria, Umayyad Qusur, and the Dome of Identity” and held in New Delhi, India. arabworld.nitle.org). U L

T the Rock, as well as portable objects from U

R throughout the Muslim world and various Holding both a BA and an MA in art history, Sharon is available in the Documentation Center E illuminated manuscripts, most notably the Sharon is currently a PhD candidate in the of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Tahmasp Shahnama. Additionally, she assists Graduate Program for History and Theory of Art Architecture, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, faculty, students, visiting scholars, and anyone and Architecture at Binghamton University and and may be reached at [email protected] else seeking information in her field of study. is continuing to work on her dissertation, and (617) 495-3372.

“Planned Grandeur: A Comparative Study of 14 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKPIA Harvard Librarians by them of Istanbul; a beautiful copy of A Report,” which has recently been posted on Francis Frith et al., Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia: ArchNet. He presented a much-expanded Illustrated by One Hundred Stereoscopic version of his paper,“From Scholars to Jeffrey B. Spurr Photographs, based on Frith’s work in 1856–57; Missionaries: The Origins, History, and a late-nineteenth-century photo album and Organization of Photograph Collections

A During the past year, much of Jeff’s time has other early photos documenting Bosnia- Documenting the Middle East at Harvard’s G

A been devoted to planning for departure from Herzegovina; a spectacular multipart panora- Fine Arts Library,” at Bo¤aziçi University, K

H the Fogg pending its renovation. This has ma of Cairo from the Muqattam Hills, ca. Istanbul, on 17 April 2007. A

N involved getting the collections in order for 1880; and 200 black-and-white and 200 P

R ultimate transfer, including extensive acces- extraordinary color slides, all thoroughly In August Jeff gave a talk,“Art & Ethnicity O

G sioning of previously unaccessioned photos, annotated by the photographer, Laura Jean through Oriental Rugs” (their title), to Primary R A much conservation work, and the rehousing Zito, of the Bedouin of the Sinai Peninsula in Source, a CMES-related outreach program; issue M

F of photographs and negatives, a process that the early 1980s, shortly before the people and it addressed the ways rugs from the Middle 4 O R is continuing. The restoration of the twenty- landscape were altered beyond recognition. East do or do not intersect with questions I S

L six films on Iran by Baroness Ullens, created Finally, in April Jeff shipped from Istanbul the of social identity. He published an article, akpia A akt c M primarily in the 1950s and early 60s, is nearly last significant group of Josephine Powell “Persia 1897–1899,” about rug and textile I december 2007 C complete, and digital surrogates are available. photographs representing her professional culture and commerce in Iran in the late T A H R C E They include two films on the Qashqa’i made oeuvre, including 715 prints, many of them nineteenth century as documented by photo- H A I

G in 1953, another on the final pilgrimage of an large format, 147 color transparencies, and graphs taken and purchased by a young T A E

C elderly, upper-class Sufi devotee, efforts by the 2,490 negatives, mainly of Afghanistan. These British diplomat while posted to Tehran K T H U

A Institut Pasteur to combat the plague in are being added to her 34,000 negatives and (Halı 148, Sept.–Oct. 2006). He chaired a special R N E Kurdistan, and many other topics. The Ali approximately 7,000 prints already in our session as MESA in Montréal, titled “Iraqi & T R

U Khan Vali Photograph Album, described in the collections. Due to Josephine’s untimely Libraries and Archives in a time of Invasion, S

T last Newletter, has now been made accessible death, this was accomplished through the Chaos, and Civil Conflict; Status and Projects.” F O in page-turner format on the Harvard College cooperation of the Research Center for R

C Library’s website. Work is proceeding to make Anatolian Civilizations. U L

T the content of that album and individual U

R images available through VIA as well. Jeff became chair of the Middle East E Librarians Committee on Iraqi Libraries and in Otherwise, the past year has witnessed some July 2007 completed his second report on the notable acquisitions, particularly fourteen rare status of Iraqi libraries and archives,“Iraqi and fine photographs of Palestine, taken in Libraries and Archives in Peril: Survival in a

1857 by Robertson and Beato, and two others Time of Invasion, Chaos, and Civil Conflict, 15 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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Design, where she has collaborated in the pro- duction of a seminar on desert tourism and a studio on the Medina of Fez and where, last Hashim Sarkis Aziza Chaouni spring, she exhibited her research on desert ecolodges. With Virginie Lefebvre she also

A This year, Hashim is teaching a studio on very Aziza Chaouni is the principal of her own organized an international conference on the G A large-scale mixed use developments in practice, a multi-disciplinary design collabora- theme of desert tourism, and she is currently K

H Istanbul and their impact on the city’s geogra- tive, which focuses on research as well as working on the publication of its proceedings. A

N phy. In the spring semester he will be teaching architecture and landscape projects in the US, P

R a seminar course, New Geographies, in parallel Europe, and Morocco. She graduated with an O

G with the launching of the journal of the same MArch with Distinction from the Harvard R A title, edited by his doctorate students, on the Graduate School of Design and a BS with M issue Tansel Korkmaz F emerging geographic paradigm in design. In Honors in Civil Engineering from Columbia 4 O R the spring of 2008 he will also be curating an University. Chaouni has worked in several I S Tansel Korkmaz is an associate professor in L exhibition on the Aga Khan Award, tenth offices in Morocco, Europe, Canada, and the akpia A akt c M cycle, at the GSD and hosting a series of US, such as Built; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; and the Graduate School of Architecture, Istanbul I december 2007 C events around this exhibition. Renzo Piano Building Workshop. She is the Bilgi University. Her research areas include the T A H R history and theory of modern architecture, C E director of the research board of H A

I historiography of architecture, and architec- G Professionally, his practice has been involved DOCO.MO.MO Morocco, a chapter of an inter- T A E

C in projects in Lebanon, Turkey, and the Gulf national organization that seeks the preserva- tural criticism. She is the author of the mono- K T H U graph Nevzat Sayın: Düs¸ler,˙ Is¸ler, Düs¸ünceler

A region. He has also recently finished an addi- tion of the modern heritage. Her research on R N E tion to the Cambridge restaurant Oleana. His the late Moroccan architect Jean-Francois (Nevzat Sayın: Visions, Works, Thoughts) & T R (Istanbul, 2004) and the editor of Architecture U work has been published in several local and Zevaco was published in DOCO.MO.MO journal S

T international journals, including The Architect, and Architecture du Maroc. Her research on in Turkey around 2000: Issues in Discourse and F O through which he received a PA Awards cita- Zevaco’s work will be assembled in a book, Practice (Ankara, 2005). R

C tion for the Bab Tebbaneh School in Tripoli, Detailing Modernism, to be published with the U L

T Lebanon. In November, he will be a guest support of a Graham Foundation grant and U

R speaker at the Boston Society of Architects. the Archilab Center in Orleans. She has been E awarded the Progressive Architecture award this year for her research project “Hybrid Urban Sutures: Filling the Gaps in the Medina of Fez.” Currently, she is an Aga Khan Visiting

Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of 16 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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Discovery Program. He also participated in the Gulf Research Project, organized by Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His publica- Jala Makhzoumi Gareth Doherty tions include papers in Projections: MIT Journal of Planning, in Traditional Dwellings and

A Jala Makhzoumi studied architecture in Iraq Gareth is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Settlements Working Paper Series 183, and, G A and received a Master’s degree in environ- University Graduate School of Design, where with Moisés Lino e Silva, in Kerb 16 (forthcom- K H mental design from Yale University and a PhD his research focuses on contemporary land- ing), as well as book chapters in Superlative A N in landscape architecture from Sheffield scape and urban design in the Persian Gulf. City, ed. Ahmed Kanna (Cambridge, MA, forth- P

R University. She has practiced architecture and Gareth previously studied landscape architec-

O coming), and in Dubai: Growing through

G ecological landscape design and planning in ture and urban design at the University of

R Architecture, ed. George Katodrytis (London, A Iraq, Lebanon, and Cyprus and is currently a Pennsylvania and at University College Dublin. issue M forthcoming).

F member of the UN-HABITAT Advisory Council In fall 2007, Gareth was a teaching fellow for 4 O R for the Reconstruction of Iraq. Her profession- Prof. Hashim Sarkis’s “Constructing Vision” and I S

L al and academic area of interest is in the a head teaching fellow for Professor Alex akpia A akt c M method and application of a landscape Krieger’s undergraduate lecture course I

C Rania Ghosn december 2007 approach to biodiversity conservation, rural “Designing the American City,” for which he T A H R C E development, and urban greening. Among her received a Harvard University Certificate of H A Rania was born, raised, and educated in Beirut, I

G publications is Ecological Landscape Design Distinction in Teaching. In 2007, Gareth won a T A E where she received her Bachelor in Architecture C and Planning: The Mediterranean Context, Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from K T H U from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in

A coauthored with G. Pungetti (London, 1999). Harvard University for a year of travel in the R N E 2000. Benefiting from a British Council She is an associate professor and program Persian Gulf during 2007–8 and, in the sum- & T

R Chevening scholarship, she further pursued her

U coordinator of the Landscape Design and mer of 2007, a Penny White Award from the

S interests in the relations of space, capital, and T Eco-Management Program at the American Graduate School of Design for research in F

O power and completed her MSc in “Modernity, University of Beirut. Brazil on landscape in non-formal cities. R Space, and Place” at the University College C Gareth was a participant in the Visiting U

L London (UCL) in 2003. She has repeatedly taught

T Teachers Programme at the Architectural U basic and advanced-level studio courses at AUB R Association, London, in June 2007. His activi- E and at Lebanese American University (LAU) and ties in 2006–7 include lectures at Boston has been a teaching fellow at the Graduate University Graduate Painting and Sculpture School of Design for the last three semesters. Department’s Tuesday Evening Lecture Series, Rania’s research is a proposal for the Pan-Arab at the Charles McGlinchey Summer School, in Highway, a highway linking the eastern shores of Donegal, Ireland, and in the GSD’s Career > 17 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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> into a Polarized Territory.” Professionally, he ments and received his Master of Architecture the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. She initi- has worked in Belgium for over six years, for from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). ated her research this summer, tracing the poli- Louis de Beauvoir Architects and Gigantes Before he came to Harvard, Antonio was a full- tics of infrastructural development from the con- Zenghelis Architects, and as a Lead Project time faculty member at the Illinois Institute of cession of the Beirut-Damascus Carriage Road Architect for Xaveer de Geyter. Several projects Technology, the School of the Art Institute of

A under the Ottoman Empire to the post- for which he received awards are currently Chicago, and Iowa State University, teaching G A Lebanese-civil-war BOT toll highway that being realized and are featured in publications design studios, urban design, and digital K H reasserts Beirut as the “Gateway to the East,” such as A+U and El Croquis. He is a member design. He also serves on the board of direc- A N passing through a century and a half of colonial of the Belgian National Accreditation Board, tors of Extension Gallery in Chicago and is P R expansions and disputes over the Levant, the principal of WAS, an interdisciplinary practice O the “Ordre des Architectes du Brabant.” In

G Tapline and Point Four Politics in the Middle East,

R 2000, through his independent practice, he of architects, urban planners, and graphic A and visions and practices of Pan-Arabism. issue M was awarded second place in the EUROPAN 6 designers with studios in Chicago and Berlin.

F He has won numerous international design 4 O international competition. Academically, El R Hadi has taught advanced-level courses and competitions, and his work is published and I S

L exhibited internationally. His teaching, prac- akpia A design studios at Cornell University. Currently, akt c M his research at Harvard focuses on the use of tice, and research emphasize interdisciplinary I december 2007 C T A El Hadi Jazairy architectural tools of analysis and representa- collaboration, the synthesis of the moment H R C E tion, such as video and interactive media, to and the anti-moment, dynamism and simul- H A I G T explore the subjective relationships of the taneity in experimental urban schemes, and A E El Hadi is an architect and a Doctor of Design C

K responsive architectural structures. Currently T student at Harvard University’s Graduate neo-nomad and his territory. H U A R in his doctoral research at Harvard, Antonio

N School of Design. He was born in Algiers, E & T received a Diplôme d’Architecte from the investigates the socio-cultural phenomenon R

U of megachurches and their transformative

S Institut Supérieur d’Architecture La Cambre in T impact on the twenty-first century American F Brussels (1999), and holds a Master of O

R city. The focus of his research is the dynamic Architecture II from Cornell University (2007). Antonio Petrov C

U At Cornell, he conducted exploratory research relationship of global worship to place, L T growth pattern, and the religious infestation U on cinematic landscapes. He analyzed, Antonio is an architect and urban designer R of urban environments, and the utopian/ E through film, the Sahara desertscape in terms currently in the Doctor of Design program at dystopian image of megachurches and their of its structural qualities and designed an Harvard University Graduate School of Design. impact on urbanism, architecture, culture, interactive virtual space reconstructing, He holds degrees from Germany in foreign and politics. through a 3-D architectural layout, the cine- trade business, architecture, and urban matic perceptions experienced while crossing design. As a Fulbright Fellow he researched 18 the territory. His thesis is entitled “Sahara the relationships between human and non- Drive, Rest, and Walk: An Interactive Journey human interaction in brown field environ- AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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Century (Cambridge, MA, fall 2007) and “Dubai a project in Bidoun 10, and upcoming book Urbanism and Port Infrastructure” for Dubai: chapters in Landscapes of Development, The Growing through Architecture (London, fall Superlative City, Public#6: DenseCity, and Stephen J. Ramos 2007). He has also coauthored a chapter with Dubai: Growing through Architecture. She has Gareth Doherty and Hashim Sarkis on Dubai’s also acted as Assistant Editor for the upcom-

A Stephen is a Doctor of Design candidate

G urban development for Cuatro Ciudades ing book, Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of A researching the impact of intensified trade (spring 2008). Urban Design, ed. Hashim Sarkis and Eric K H flows, infrastructure, and technology on the Mumford (New Haven, forthcoming). Neyran A N physical form of cities with professors Hashim is currently Publications Coordinator at the P

R Sarkis, Peter Rowe, and Joan Busquets.

O Harvard Design School Aga Khan Program

G Stephen holds a BA in English and Spanish

R and Editor-in-Chief for the upcoming journal A Literature from Gettysburg College and a Joint M New Geographies. issue Neyran Turan

F Masters Degree in Community and Regional 4 O R Planning (MS) and Latin American Studies I

S Neyran is an architect and currently a doctoral

L (MA) from the University of Texas at Austin. akpia A akt c M HIs most recent teaching post was as candidate at Harvard University Graduate I december 2007 C Principal Instructor of the Urban Planning and School of Design. She received her Bachelor of T A H R Architecture degree from Istanbul Technical C E Design concentration of the Graduate School H A University and holds her masters degree from I

G of Design’s Summer Career Discovery Program T A E Yale University School of Architecture. Her C 2007. He was also the co-Head Teaching K T H U master’s research at Yale examined the rela-

A Fellow for the Harvard College Core Program R N E course Designing the American City (spring tionship between global infrastructure net- & T

R works and urbanism in contemporary culture;

U 2007) and Head Teaching Fellow for the GSD

S her current research focuses on Istanbul. T course Public/Private Development (fall 2006). F O Stephen has recently published “Dubai: Port Neyran has taught and also acted as guest R critic at various institutions, including Harvard C as Prototype,” coauthored with Gareth U

L Design School, Yale School of Architecture,

T Doherty and Hashim Sarkis for Neutra: Revista U University at Buffalo, Boston Architecture R de Arquitectura del Colegio de Arquitectos de E Andalucía (fall 2006); forthcoming book chap- College, and Istanbul Technical University. Her ters include “Prototype and Replication in work has been published in several journals, Dubai Urbanism,” coauthored with Peter G. including Thresholds and Domus. Recent Rowe for The Superlative City: Dubai and the publications include an article in the ACSA conference proceedings, Surfacing Urbanisms: Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First 19 Recent Approaches to Metropolitan Design, AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty bath and demonstrates that it was modeled on annual conference, held in New York.They are the so-called ideal type of Turkish bath, the now in the process of editing a special volume of Jermyn Street Hammam erected in London in 1862. Ars Orientalis dedicated to eighteenth-century Nebahat Avcıog˘ lu cross-cultural encounters. During the fall 2007 semester, Nebahat has

A Nebahat Avcıo˘glu is currently Visiting Associate finalized two articles:“Istanbul:The Palimpsest G

A Professor of History,Theory, and Criticism (HTC) City in Search of Its Architext” will be appearing K

H on the faculty of architecture at MIT, attached to in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics and ‘“So Are A N the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, You Designing Minarets’: Architecture and Nasser Rabbat P

R where she offers a new graduate seminar, City as Identity” in Cultural Analysis (published both in O

G Palimpsest:The Islamic City from the Premodern print and electronically). Both articles will be R Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor of A to the Postmodern, and teaches the undergradu- available in early 2008. issue M Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts

F ate core course Religious Architecture and 4 O Institute of Technology (MIT). His scholarly R Islamic Culture. Nebahat is also in the process of writing an

I interests include the history and historiogra- S

L essay dealing with cross-cultural currents in akpia A phy of Islamic art and architecture, urban his- akt c M During this semester she gave two talks for British art and architecture between 1700 and I tory, and post-colonial criticism. His research december 2007 C AKPIA lecture series: one, titled “Istanbul: the 1900 for the two-volume Remapping British Art T A focuses on the overlapping intercultural H R C E Palimpsest City in Search of its Architext,” at and Architecture c. 1400–2000, edited by Dana

H spaces where peoples have always met and A I

G Harvard and the other, titled “Orientalism, Self- Arnold and David Peters Corbett, which will be T exchanged ideas, views, beliefs, and practices A E

C Orientalism, and Identity Politics:The Mosque in published in 2008. Her book Enlightened K T and, in the process, created art and architec- H U

A Western Europe and North America,” at MIT. The Exoticism:Turkish Architecture, Politics, and the R ture. His books include The Citadel of Cairo: A N E latter was accompanied by a presentation by Visual Narratives of the Other in Europe: & T New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk R

U Azra Aksamija, who talked about her latest art 1737–1862 is in the process of completion and

S Architecture (Leiden, 1995), Thaqafat al Bina’ T work—nomadic or portable mosques. will appear in early 2008. Her review of Gülru

F wa Bina’ al-Thaqafa (The Culture of Building O Necipo˘glu’s The Age of Sinan: Architectural R and Building Culture) (Beirut, 2002), and L’ar t

C On 9 December 2007, Nebahat will deliver a Culture in the Ottoman Empire (London and U islamique: À la recherche d’une méthode his- L

T paper in Istanbul, at the international sympo- Princeton, NJ, 2006) appeared 9 December 2006

U torique (forthcoming, Paris). He was a coau-

R sium “Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: in caa.reviews (published electronically by the E thor of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in Architecture, History, and Imagination,” organ- College Art Association). the Arabic Literary Tradition, ed. D. Reynolds ized by Nina Ergin at the Research Center for (Berkeley, 2001) and coeditor with Nezar Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University.The title Nebahat and Barry Flood were the co-organizers AlSayyad and Irene Bierman of Making Cairo of Nebahat’s paper is “Le Hammam in Paris: An of a panel titled “Consuming Images, Medieval (Lanham, MD, 2005). > Haussmannian Project”; she focuses specifically Constructing Selves: Europe and the Orient in 20 on the establishment in 1876 of the Paris public the Eighteenth Century,” for the 2007 CAA AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty >

Nasser is currently completing a book on the historian al-Maqrizi, to be published in Leiden in 2008 or 2009, and another on Mamluk his- Irvin Cemil Schick tory, Architecture as Social History: Building,

A Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria Irvin was born in Istanbul,Turkey, and obtained G

A (forthcoming 2008). He is also editing a book his PhD from MIT in 1989. He has taught at K

H of essays entitled The Courtyard House: Harvard University and MIT, where he is now a A

N Between Cultural Expression and Universal researcher. He is the author of The Erotic Margin: P

R Application (forthcoming 2008) and the pro- Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse and O

G ceedings of an international conference, The Fair Circassian: Adventures of an Orientalist R A “Islamic Cities in the Classical Age,” which he Motif (in Turkish), and the editor or coeditor of issue M

F organized at MIT in May 2005. several books, including Turkey in Transition: New 4 O R Perspectives, European Female Captives and their I S

L Nasser worked as a designer in Los Angeles Muslim Masters: Narratives of Captivity from akpia A akt c M and Damascus. Among his honors are the “Turkish Lands” (in Turkish), Women in the I december 2007 C American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture, History, and M. T A H R C E Fellowship (2007–8, 1999–2000, and Ug˘ ur Derman Festschrift: Papers Presented on H A I

G 1988–89), the Chaire de l’Institut du Monde the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. T A E

C Arabe (2003), and the J. Paul Getty This fall he is a visiting lecturer in AKPIA at MIT, K T H U

A Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993–94). Besides teaching a course titled Islamic Calligraphy R N E publishing articles in specialized scholarly and Architecture. & T R

U journals and edited collections, he regularly S

T contributes articles on art, architecture, and F O critical and cultural issues to a number of R

C Arabic newspapers and journals, such as al- U L

T Hayat, al-Adab, and Wughat Nazar. He serves U

R on the boards of various organizations con- E cerned with Islamic cultures, lectures extensively in the US and abroad, and maintains several websites focused on Islamic architecture.

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Post-doctoral Fellows Students

Hanaa Mohamed Adly Stefan Heidemann Mohammed al-Khabbaz

A Hanaa graduated from the Faculty of Stefan studied Islamic history, law, and eco- Mohammed is a second-year AKPIA SMArchS G

A Archaeology of Cairo University in 1995. She nomics at universities in Regensburg, Berlin, student. He graduated with a Bachelor of K

H earned her MA and PhD degrees in 2000 and Damascus, and Cairo from 1982 to 1993 and Architecture degree from King Fahd University A

N 2006 from the same faculty. Her MA thesis was received his PhD in 1993 from the Free of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, P

R titled “Statues in Islamic Art,” and her PhD dis- University, Berlin. Appointed Research Saudi Arabia, in 2002. He worked as an archi- O

G sertation was “Egyptian Mihrabs in the Assistant the following year, he completed his tect for three years in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, R A habilitation in 2001 at Jena University, and was involved in the design and supervi-

M Ottoman Period, 923–1265 (1517–1848).” Her issue

F research addresses seventy Egyptian mihrabs Germany. After teaching at Leipzig University, sion processes of medium-size projects. 4 O R and includes complete data on building materi- he went back to Jena, where he teaches today. I S

L als, measurements, and a detailed description of Mohammed is interested in the conception of akpia A akt c M each mihrab in terms of its marble or other Working in different disciplines he always contemporary architecture in the Gulf Arab I december 2007 C stone and its style and decoration. takes material culture and archaeology into countries in the context of culture and trade. T A H R C E account. Since the late eighties he has been He expects to graduate in 2008. H A I

G Hanaa participated in World Heritage Day, involved in numerous excavations in Syria, T A E

C organized by the Egyptian Supreme Council of first in al-Raqqa on the Euphrates, and later in K T H U

A Antiquities in the Palace of Mohamed Ali Pasha, Aleppo, Damascus, and other cities in Syria, R N E in Shoubra, Cairo. She also took part in the Turkey, Iraq, and Mongolia. His habilitation & T R

U eighth conference of the Union of Arab thesis explores the renaissance of cities in the S

T Archaeologists, held in the Arab League, Cairo, Middle East following the Seljuk conquest in F O 26–27 November 2005. the eleventh century. Although the Seljuks R

C based their new power on fortified cities and U L

T She joined the teaching staff of Helwan fortifications, the still-visible transformation U

R University in Cairo in 2002 as Assistant Lecturer to a cityscape with enormous public activity E and became Lecturer there in 2006. Since 2005, occurred only later, in the second half of the she has taught Islamic art in the Department of twelfth century. The Aga Khan Fellowship Archaeology and Civilization in the Faculty of enables Stefan to look into the reasons for Arts of the same institution. this urban transformation.

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Students preservation methods for that collection. Nancy hopes to multiply her experiences with primary- source materials as an AKPIA graduate student. Zameer Basrai Nancy Nabeel Aly Demerdash

As a first-year SMArchS student in AKPIA at MIT, A Zameer is a first-year SMArchS student. He G Nancy will continue exploring her A graduated as a gold medalist from the School

K primary interests in cultural hybridity, H of Architecture, Centre for Environmental A particularly within colonial and postcolonial Christian A. Hedrick N Planning and Technology, India, in 2005.

P North African contexts. Prompted both by R His undergraduate research, titled O her studies at the American University in Cairo in Christian is a first-year PhD student and an G “Understanding a Shia Architecture,” studied R architect. He is interested in studying neo-

A 2005 and her subsequent travels throughout the diversity within Islamic architecture by issue M Spain and Morocco in 2006, she hopes to probe Islamic architecture in Cairo and Europe and

F addressing sectarian politics and its manifes- 4 O questions concerning identity and syncretism as its relationship to Egyptian and European R tation in the architecture of a neighborhood

I national identity in the nineteenth century. S manifested in Maghribi art and architecture

L mosque. Following the receipt of his degree, akpia A within and around these colonial contact zones. His interest in this field originated while pur- akt c M he worked for over a year as Research I suing his Master’s degree, and he continued december 2007 C Assistant at the department, conducting T A

H to explore related issues while teaching archi- R Having graduated with an Honors BA from the C E workshops for junior students to create

H tectural history and theory at Boston A University of Wisconsin-Madison in December I

G awareness about the urban environment. T A E 2006, Nancy comes to MIT with a major in art Architectural College. While teaching, he pre- C K T sented a paper titled “A Question of Distance: H

U history and a minor in religious studies.

A Zameer published a paper titled “Evolution of R N E Immediately prior to her arrival at MIT, she held Representing the Colonial Subject in the Early the Bohra Masjid in Gujarat, AD 1650–1950: & T

R internships at the Haggerty Museum of Art in 20th Century” at a 2004 ACSA conference. His

U Women’s Space in the Masjid” in the summer

S Milwaukee and at the Philadelphia Museum of pursuit of a PhD has been motivated by his T 2007 issue of Context: Built, Living and F Art. At the former venue, she assisted the Chief teaching experience and his sustained inter- O Natural, a journal of the Development and R Curator of Exhibitions on research for selected est in colonial and postcolonial history and C Research Organization for Nature, Arts, and U upcoming exhibitions. At the latter institution, theory and in nineteenth-century Cairo. L

T Heritage (DRONAH), India. While at MIT, he U Nancy built upon her foundational background R focuses on exploring ways to study and docu- E in hybridity in Mughal manuscript painting (the He received his MArch degree from the ment women’s space in Shi‘i mosques subject of her honors senior thesis at UW- University of Michigan and a BA in history through a detailed historical account of its Madison) by working with Dr. Dale Mason, the from John Carroll University. He has spent the development in Islamic history. Zameer also Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian Art, archiving last several years working as an architect in intends to pursue his interest in sociology as exhibition materials related to the Alvin O. Bellak Boston and Columbus. an approach to architectural studies. 23 Collection of Indian paintings and devising new AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Students

Aftab Jalia Pamela Karimi Anneka Lenssen

A Aftab is a second-year SMArchS student. His Pamela’s dissertation,“Aesthetics and Ethics of Anneka is a second-year PhD student. This G

A interests lie in studying the work of the Indian the Iranian Home in the Age of summer, with the help of an AKPIA Student K

H architect Nari Gandhi and in examining criti- Globalism,” focuses on gender, domesticity, Travel Grant, she was able to spend two and a A

N cal issues of environmental design, cultural and consumer culture in Iran (1945–85). half months in Syria conducting pre-disserta- P

R adaptations, and design sensibilites raised by During the 2006–7 academic year Pamela tion research on contemporary and modern O

G the nature of similar unconventional prac- completed eight months of fieldwork and art practices. She studied Arabic at the R A archival research in Iran with a Social Science University of Damascus in the mornings and

M tices. By studying these he intends to derive issue

F analogies to the present-day scenario of con- Research Council International Dissertation visited galleries and ateliers in the evenings. 4 O R temporary expression and the emergence of Research Fellowship. She is currently writing After interviewing artists and encountering I S

L new patronage in architectural design in her dissertation with support from the works of art from the 1960s and 1970s in the akpia A akt c M Islamic cultures. On completion of his intern- American Association of University Women. national archives, she decided to focus her I december 2007 C ship with Charles Correa Associates, Mumbai, She is also working on a series of other proj- research on painting from these decades. In T A H R C E Aftab went on to graduate with distinction ects, including an article on public art in post- the spring, Anneka traveled to the United H A I

G from Allana College of Architecture, Pune Iran-Iraq-war Tehran, to be published in Arab Emirates to work for two weeks in the T A E

C University, class of 2006. Persica: Uitgave van het Genootschap curatorial offices of the 2007 Sharjah Biennial, K T H U

A Nederland-Iran, Annual of the Dutch-Iranian an important event in the Arab art world and R N E He is also a research assistant for the Aga Society. Next spring she will teach a survey of the international scene. She published an arti- & T R

U Khan Trust for Culture-MIT collaborative Islamic art at Brandeis University. Her expect- cle,“Travels of the Carpet Myth: Retracing S

T online community, ArchNet, for which he has ed date of graduation is December 2008. Owen Jones, Ibn Khaldun, and Gottfried F O researched historic and contemporary sites in Semper” in Thresholds 34, and her essay,“The R

C India. He will graduate from MIT in June 2008. Wormholes of Ecology,” will appear in the U L

T Sharjah Biennial post-exhibition catalogue. U

R This academic year she is a first-time Teaching E Assistant for Visiting Associate Professor Nebahat Avcıo˘glu’s course, Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures. Together with first-year PhD student Deniz Turker, she

is also organizing MIT’s half of the AKPIA lec- 24 ture series. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Students AKP MIT Librarians

Deniz Turker Omar Khalidi Andrea Schuler

A Deniz received her BA in the History of Art from Omar spent a busy year working on his Guide Andrea joined the MIT Libraries in December G

A Yale University. She earned her SMArchS degree to Architecture in Hyderabad, containing text, 2006 as the Aga Khan Archives Assistant. She K

H in the Aga Khan Program at MIT, where she has maps, still photographs of the built environ- provides access to the Aga Khan Visual Archive A

N recently started her doctoral program. Her ment, and some 200 heritage sites and build- for students, faculty, researchers, and publishers. P

R SMArchS thesis traced the life of Khalil Sherif ings in Hyderabad, Deccan, India. So far over She also catalogs images of Islamic art and O

G Pasha, an Ottoman diplomat and art collector 1500 photos and about 300 maps have been architecture for the Aga Khan teaching collec- R A digitized. As a first step, the photos and maps tion, housed in the Rotch Visual Collections, and

M known most notably as the patron of Gustave issue

F Courbet and his painting L’origine du monde. will be available to the MIT community via has worked closely with Omar Khalidi cataloging 4 O R Khalil Sherif’s biography furthered her research Dspace/Dome in early December 2007. At a images of Hyderabad, India, for his Guide to I S

L in the complex and often volatile networks later stage, the Guide, with text, photos, and Architecture in Hyderabad. She holds a BA in akpia A akt c M between the Ottoman Porte and Egypt, as well maps, may be available through ArchNet. history from Boston College, and has recently I december 2007 C as in nineteenth-century modernization move- Andrea Schuler in RVC and Jonah Jenkins in begun a Masters of Library and Information T A H R C E ments in the Middle East, Egyptian and Ottoman Rotch Processing Department played key roles Science at Simmons College, concentrating in H A I

G schools in Paris, the 1855 Universal Exposition in in the project’s successful completion. archives management. T A E

C Paris, and the Ottoman press. K T H U

A In August 2007, Omar presented a paper, The Aga Khan Visual Archive is a rich resource R N E While exploring the lives and collections of non- “Dairat al-Maarif al-Uthmaniyya, A Pioneer in consisting of more than 100,000 images donat- & T R

U Western “cosmopolitans” in the nineteenth cen- Arabic Publishing in India,” at the Islamic ed by scholars, architectural firms, and graduate S

T tury, Deniz will be coordinating the MIT Aga Manuscript Association’s third annual meet- students. The collection reflects a great diversity F O Khan Lecture Series with her colleague Anneka ing at Cambridge University. The paper will be of research interests and, because it spans nearly R

C Lenssen. Both are actively contemplating the published on the TIMA website and both elec- twenty-five years, documents significant U L

T possibility of a symposium in 2008 on curating tronically and in hard copy in MELA (Middle changes in the cultural and political landscape of U

R in the Islamic world. In the summer, Deniz has East Librarians’ Association) Notes. many regions of the Islamic world. Many of the E worked as Research Assistant in the Philadelphia images in the archive document monuments, Museum of Art, putting together and recording sites, and cities that one cannot find in published an audio tour on the seventeenth-century email: [email protected] | tel: 617-258-5597 works, or that have sadly deteriorated or tapestry cycle The Life of Constantine the been destroyed.

Great, designed by Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro 25 da Cortona. ARCHNET

Accomplishments in 2007 each city through its architectural and spatial New in the ArchNet collection of publications chronology, were added to the Digital Library. is the illustrious four-volume anthology of the As of October 2007, ArchNet has over 50,929 This fall will see the addition of similar histo- works of Oleg Grabar, Constructing the Study members from 244 countries. The holdings of ries for Asmara, Khartoum, Alexandria, Tunis, of Islamic Art; the Aga Khan Award for its Digital Library have increased to 53,068 and Bam, along with extensive multimedia Architecture publication Architecture and

A images and 4,196 PDF and CAD files, illustrat- coverage of Bam’s historic citadel. Polyphony; and the peer-reviewed G A ing more than 5000 historic and contempo- International Journal of Architectural Research K

H rary buildings and urban projects in 119 coun- Visitors to the site will now find over 74 new (IJAR), now appearing four times annually A N tries around the world. ArchNet is accessed additions of CAD-format drawings and high- on ArchNet. P

R resolution JPG files, covering sites from the

O daily by more than 11,000 unique users, who

G updated Taj Mahal complex to works in

R download more than 40 GB of information A Pakistan, Tanzania, Somalia, Iran, Kenya, Iraq, ArchNet welcomes Dr. Anne Beamish issue M (images and publications) weekly.

F and India; CAD documentation of the ([email protected], previously Managing 4 O R During the spring of 2007, graduate students Alhambra complex is soon to follow. More Director) back to MIT as its Creative Director, I S

L Gordana Jakimovska, Aftab Jalia, Rana than 1,000 new photographs have been and Patrick McCook ([email protected]) as akpia A akt c M Amirtahmasebi, Tsitsi Gora, and Cassim added to illustrate Digital Library sites in its in-house Project Programmer. Though new I december 2007 C Mombasa, Lamu, and Nairobi; text articles for to MIT, both have been involved with the T A Shepard contributed to the project according H R C E to their expertise as architects, historians, and many monuments in the Mughal canon have project from the University of Texas at Austin, H A I

G been extensively revised, and the works of the where ArchNet’s research and development T urban planners. Magdalena Pantazi joined the A E

C contemporary Indian architect Nari Gandhi activities were located. For image donations K ArchNet team in September. This year, T H U

A will soon be added to the Digital Library. or edits to materials in the ArchNet Digital R ArchNet research assistants have been N E Also in process is the acquisition of a beauti- Library, please contact Ophelia Celine (Content & T engaged in the creation of CAD drawing sets, R

U research into historic and contemporary sites ful set of postcard proofs documenting Fez Director, [email protected]). General questions S T in India, the development of a comprehensive in the 1920s, courtesy of the Harvard Fine regarding the website may be directed to F O Arts Library. Jared Eisenstat (Site Administrator,

R set of documentation for the city of Bam,

C [email protected]).

U image research into the architecture of the L T Swahili kingdom, and the composition of U R

E architectural urban histories for cities in the Islamic world.

Over the summer of 2007, new urban histo- ries of Baghdad, Mumbai, Kabul, Isfahan,

Medina, Jerusalem, and New Delhi, tracing 26 AKPIA: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/ ARCHNET AKDN: www.akdn.org/

ArchNet: http://archnet.org ArchNet 2.0 and Open ArchNet

ArchNet 2.0 achieved an important milestone in its development this past September, as the site was successfully converted from TCL script

A into Java. Crucial to the further design develop- G

A ment of the site, the conversion to Java means K

H a more sophisticated and flexible programming A N structure: the foundation of Open ArchNet. P R O G

R Currently being designed, Open ArchNet is A

issue M based on an Open Source framework, and its

F Open Content acquisition and distribution 4 O R model will put the focus back on the ArchNet I S

L community.The redesign of Open ArchNet is akpia A akt c M being conducted under the direction of I december 2007 C T A Professor William J. Mitchell, Professor of H R C E Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and H A I G

T the Director of the Design Lab at MIT. A E C K T H U A R N E & T R

U ArchNet team S T From left to right: F O seated: Tsitsi Gora and Rana Amirtahmasebi R

C standing: Patrick McCook, Ophelia Celine, Anne Beamish, U L

T Aftab Jalia, Jared Eisenstat, and Magdalena Pantazi. U R E

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