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Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Buildings and public spaces are physical Programs for manifestations of culture in societies (AKPIA) at Harvard University and at the both past and present. They represent Massachusetts Institute of Technology human endeavors that can enhance the are supported by endowments for quality of life, foster self-understanding akpia instruction, research, and student aid and community values, and expand aktc AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE from His Highness the Aga Khan. AKPIA opportunities for economic and social 2016-2017 is dedicated to the study of Islamic development into the future. The Aga Khan architecture, urbanism, visual culture, and Trust for Culture (AKTC) is an integral part conservation, in an effort to respond to of the Aga Khan Development Network the cultural and educational needs of a (AKDN), a family of institutions created by features: diverse constituency drawn from all over His Highness the Aga Khan with distinct yet the world. complementary mandates to improve the MIT welfare and prospects of people in countries Activities p. 2 People p. 10 Along with the focus on improving the of the developing world, particularly in Asia teaching of Islamic art and architecture and . AKDC p. 17 and setting a standard of excellence Harvard HAA in professional research, AKPIA also Though their spheres of activity and Activities p. 20 continually strives to promote visibility of expertise differ—ranging from social People p. 28 the pan-Islamic cultural heritage. development to economic development Harvard GSD to culture—AKDN institutions share at Activities p. 38 least three principles that guide their work. People p. 41 The first is dedication to self-sustaining development that can contribute to long- term economic advancement and social harmony. The second is a commitment to the vigorous participation of local communities in all development efforts. Finally, all Network institutions seek shared responsibility for positive change. 1 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

2016–2017 STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Admitting One New PhD Student Student Travel Grant Awards Julia Gonnella Eberhard-Karl Universität Tübingen, Germany Courtney Lesoon Yusef Audeh, Master of Science in Art, Culture In MIT residence 04/17-5/17 BA College of Holy Cross and Technology Topic: Friedrich Sarre, the Berlin Museum of

AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC Graduation 2022 Pure Light Islamic Art and Oriental Taste in Berlin Düsseldorf, Germany and Tunisia Admitting Three New SMArchS Students El Hadi Jazairy Max Budovitch, MCP & Kelly Main, MCP The University of Michigan Alexis LeFort Differential Impact of Refugee Housing Programs In MIT residence 09/16-05/17 MA University of Texas, San Antonio on Beneficiaries and Urban Development in Topic: Urbanism and Energy Systems Deferred 2016 Admission Lebanon Lebanon Eisa Esfanjary Kenari Suheyla Takesh Isfahan University of Art, Iran issue BID American University of Sharjah Sera Tolgay, AKPIA@MIT SMarchS In MIT residence 01/17-06/17 13akpia Graduation 2018 Planning for Scarcity: Community-Based Water Topic: The Medieval Houses of Yazd aktc Management in the Jordan River Valley 2016-2017 Jordan

THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE Sera Tolgay BA Yale University Graduation 2019 Post-Doctoral Fellows

Graduating Two SMArchS Students Angela Andersen The Ohio State University Ali Khodr In MIT residence 09/16-01/17 Thesis: Planning a Sectarian Topography: Topic: Cem Evleri: An Examination of the Historical Revisiting Michael Ecohard’s Master Plans for Roots and Contemporary Meanings of Alevi Beirut 1941-1964 Architecture and Iconography

Rio Fischer Burak Erdim Thesis: Aesthetics of the Qur’anic Epigraphy on North Carolina State University the Taj In MIT residence 02/17-05/17 Topic: The Valley and the State: Situating Planning Cultures in the Cold War Middle East

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2016-2017 LECTURES & ACTIVITIES November 7 February 27 Digital Colonialism?: Thoughts on the Ethics Portraits of Oil Urbanism FALL 2016 LECTURE SERIES: of Digital Recreations of Threatened Cultural El Hadi Jazairy CULTURES OF UPHEAVAL Heritage Sites in the Middle East AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow; Research Erin Thompson Scientist, Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT Assistant Professor of Art Law and Art Crime,

AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) March 20 Toward a Methodology of Decolonizing November 14 Photography Artfare: How Art Makes Sense of Cultural Stephen Sheehi Upheaval Professor of Arabic Studies, College of William Kirsten Scheid & Mary Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, American April 3 University of Beirut Graveyard of the Clerics: Islamic Activism in Saudi issue Suburbia 13akpia December 5 Pascale Ménoret aktc The Role and Meaning of the Alevi Cemevi: Islamic Professor in Modern Middle East Studies, 2016-2017 Congregational Architecture Outside the Brandeis University THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE Paradigm Angela Andersen April 24 AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow No Direction Home: The Life and Legacy of Frantz Fanon FALL 2017 LECTURE SERIES Adam Shatz New York Based Author and Contributing Editor September 12 to the London Review of Books In cooperation with the MIT HTC Forum The Surface of Things: A History of Photography May 1 from the Swahili Coast The Mosque and the Arcade: Academy and Sandy Prita Meier Nationhood in the Cold War Middle East Assistant Professor of African Art History, Burak Erdim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow; North Carolina State University October 3 After Daraa: Syrian Art Today 3 Maymanah Farhat Writer and Art Historian AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

2016-2017 SYMPOSIUM October 29 Plenary Talk Exhibition Visit: Syria: A Living History Symposium: Syria’s Art and Architecture: Syria: Where Cultures Met A Multicultural History Professor Nasser Rabbat Performance: Arias and Maqams with performer , Toronto MIT Lubana al Quntar October 29-30, 2016

AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC Session 1: Ancient Syria October 30 The Temple of the Storm-God of Aleppo Session 3: Modern Syria Kay Kohlmeyer Depicting Damascus’ Hinterland Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin Dana Sajdi Boston College Palmyra Manar Hammad The Drama of Damascus Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Christa Salamandra City University of New York issue Living the “Jerash Way” 13akpia Syria has been home to some of the great Alan Walmsley A Worldly Icon? aktc world civilizations over many millennia. The art University of Copenhagen Anneka Lenssen 2016-2017 and architecture of Syria reveal the richness of University of California, Berkeley THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE its multicultural heritage and the diversity of Session 2: Islamic Syria its artistic production. Dr. Ruba Kana’an (Aga Writing in Gold Khan Museum) and Professor Nasser Rabbat Marcus Milwright (MIT) lead a weekend of exciting talks that University of Victoria travel on a journey through the most iconic arts and monuments of Syria. Ten international Contested Pieties experts give illustrated presentations on their Yasser Tabbaa recent research covering Syria’s long history Independent Scholar from ancient times to the classical and Islamic periods. Building a Reputation Ellen Kenny The American University in Cairo

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2016-2017 WORKSHOP The workshop addresses the agency of Introduction architecture and design in a context where the Nasser Rabbat Workshop: The Architecture of Refugees: disrespect of human rights is aggravated by The Question of Ethics the incapacity of global institutions to react Ethics of International Law as a Framework for April 27, 2017 efficiently. What are the ethical questions Displacees and Refugees regarding the architecture of refugees? What Balakrishnan Rajagopal

AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC timescales, short or long terms, represent a priority for architecture and through which Ethics and Politics of Post-Conflict Repair agenda–refugee relief, historical preservation, Delia Wendel camp upgrades and daily life, or rebuilding and resettlement? What is the role of design Material Culture and Historical Conservation in front of the degradation and destruction of Admir Masic cultural artifacts? How can design be channeled towards peace building objectives and possible After Belonging resettlement projects? What are the material, Carlos Minguez Carrasco issue technological, systemic responses to address 13akpia Significant transformations in the world’s emergency needs in the context of refugee Architecture of Exile: The Permanent aktc political landscape are signaling the emergence camps? Temporariness of Refugee Camps 2016-2017 of a new world order that undermines the THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE Alessandro Petti certitudes established at the end of World War II. At the core of such discussions, the concept Panel Discussion of human rights is significantly challenged, Carrasco, Masic, Petti, Rajagopal and Wendel calling for a discussion at the core of ethics for Moderated by El Hadi Jazairy the revisions of the principles and mechanisms of intervention. In reaction to these new transformations, some have called for a World Parliament representing the people and not governments to replace the UN General Assembly.

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May 6 2016-2017 ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIUM May 5

Roundtable Symposium Introduction Round Table 2: Architecture and Education Co-Sponsored by AKPIA@MIT: Stan Anderson Mark Jarzombek HTC PhD, 1986 and HTC Edward Eigen, HTC PhD, 2000 May 5-6, 2017 AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC Round Table 1: Research and Epistemology Mina Marefat, HTC PhD, 1988

Carol Rusche Bentel, HTC PhD, 2017 Juliana Maxim, HTC PhD, 2006

Robert Cowherd, HTC PhD, 2002 Brian L. McLaren, HTC PhD, 2001

Mark Jarzombek, HTC PhD, 1986 Ikem Okoye, HTC PhD, 1995

issue Adnan Z. Morshed, HTC PhD, 2002 Shundana Yusaf, HTC SMArchS, 2001 13akpia aktc Professor Anderson’s legacy at MIT stretched Nancy Stieber, HTC PhD, 1986. Round Table 3: Stan Anderson and HTC 2016-2017 from his scholarship and teaching to program THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE building. This symposium will be an opportunity Libero Andreotti, HTC PhD, 1989 to reflect on his efforts by means of three roundtables chaired by HTC alumni and his Paul Bentel, HTC PhD, 1993 former students. Presented by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA@ Irene Fatsea, HTC PhD, 2000 MIT); History, Theory and Criticism (HTC); and the School of Architecture and Planning at the Gail Fenske, PhD 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Nasser Rabbat, HTC PhD, 1991

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2016-2017 COURSES 4.614 4.619 Architecture in the Islamic World Historiography of Islamic Architecture FALL 2016 Nasser Rabbat Nasser Rabbat

4.612 Islamic Architecture and the Environment AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC James Wescoat

A selective survey of Islamic architecture from This seminar offers a critical review of issue the beginning of Islam in 7th-century Arabia to scholarship on Islamic art and architecture 13akpia the present, this course covers fifteen centuries through close reading of scholarly texts, aktc and three continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, in museum exhibitions, and architectural 2016-2017

THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE This course studies how Islamic architecture, addition to recent developments in the US. The projects. It addresses methodological and landscape architecture, and urban planning course examines decisive moments in Islamic historiographical questions about the field’s reflect and transform environmental processes history and traces the global spread of Islam formation, genealogy, recent expansion, and in various regions and climates of the Islamic through architecture. It studies representative its evolving historical and theoretical contours. world, from Andalusia to Southeast Asia, with architectural examples beginning with the One paramount methodological issue is how an emphasis on South Asia, Central Asia, and the House of the Prophet in Medina and ending can we study a culturally defined tradition, like Middle East. Using systematic approaches to with current megaprojects in the Persian Gulf. Islamic art and architecture, without reducing environmental data collection and analysis, the The examples are situated within their broad it to an essential and timeless category? course examines strategies behind the design of historical context. Their architectural, urban, Another corollary issue is how can we critique selected architectural elements and landscape and stylistic characteristics are analyzed in design types, ranging in scale from the fountain the dominant Western architectural paradigm conjunction with their political, socioeconomic, to the garden, courtyard, city, and agrarian without discarding the idea of paradigm or and intellectual settings. Students are region. The class will critically explore cultural turning away from its comparative potential? interpretations of Islamic environmental design encouraged to raise questions and generate Two historiographical questions will also (e.g., paradise gardens), as they developed over debates. The aim is to help them better frame our discussions: how can we rethink time in ways that enrich, modify, or obscure their understand Islamic architecture both as a full- periodization in Islamic art/architectural history

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boundaries of Islamic art/architecture—Late SPRING 2017 4.617 Antiquity before and Modernism as a separate The City in Medieval Islamic Thinking after—as constitutive stages? 4.S24 Nasser Rabbat SMArchS Urbanism Pre-Thesis Preparation 4.625j 11.378J James Wescoat Water Planning, Policy and Design AGA & ARCHITECTURE FOR KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC James Wescoat

This seminar focuses on the writing on the city at an especially critical historical juncture: issue v when the dominant polity in most regions 13akpia of the Islamic world depended primarily on aktc legitimization through power (sultan). The class 2016-2017

THE AGATHE KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE Focusing on water in environmental planning, This course explores initial thesis ideas and primarily revolves around a close reading of the policy, and design, this course draws together bases for choosing among multiple interests. Muqaddima (Introduction or Prolegomena) of ‘Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), in faculty and students who are working on The assessment of design research strengths and weaknesses is discussed, and an overview of which he develops a new science that he calls water-related research projects to develop and conceptual frameworks and research methods ‘Ilm al-‘Umran (the Science of Civilization), which maintain a current perspective on the field from is reviewed. Participants work on preparation conceives of the city as the focus of civilization the site to metropolitan and international scales. for summer field research and proposal and politics. Most pertinent are Ibn Khaldun’s development. views on history, geography, historiography, urbanity, and civilization, on the nomadic/ settled dichotomy as an engine of state formation, on the characteristics and conditions of urban life, and on the rise and fall of cities as a function of the rise and fall of states. Further primary sources of the same period, such as al-Muqaddasi, al-Maqrizi, Ibn Tulun al-Salihi, and others, will be introduced to further elucidate

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qualified undergraduates. Students are required to participate in the discussion, to report in writing on the weekly readings, and to develop a research paper to be presented in class and submitted at the end of the term.

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This seminar focuses on the historical geography of Islamic gardens from Andalusia to Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the Indian subcontinent. The seminar links garden design with larger scale urban processes and cross-cultural debates. We begin with garden cosmologies and creation stories, spend most of the semester on the historical gardens of this world, and conclude with the Islamic paradise gardens at the end of time. We explore these topics with evidence from archaeological, art historical, landscape architectural, and cartographic sources – using historical geography as an integrative method. In each

case, we consider the contemporary significance 9 of gardens in heritage conservation and Islamic environmental design. 10 James Wescoat James Jim is an Aga Khan Professor with research with research Khan Professor Jim is an Aga in historical andand teaching interests systems in South Asia and water contemporary on an essay he contributed In 2016-17, the U.S. in a special issue of restoration urban stream and Environment Design: calledWater , Marg Indian art a leading journal and culture Histories, for Trust based on work with Khan the Aga Initiative Urban Renewal Nizamuddin Culture’s Other articles and chapters India. in New Delhi, planning in India on urban and peri-urban water with Khanthe Aga based on collaboration were which India, Planning and Building Services, is now part for of Khan Agency the new Aga Habitat (AKAH). projects research water Jim has two current for Center Tata MIT’s through underway One is a collaboration and Design. Technology and ofMaharashtra between the Government planning Bank on district drinking water World preparedness Drought India. Maharashtra, specific are planning and peri-urban water challenges in A second that project. research with on canal modernization study focuses and canal-top solar energy hydrokinetic he was In the U.S. in South Asia. generation Council Research appointed to a National with charged ofthe study Urbancommitted Emergency by the Federal sponsored Flooding, workingalso is Jim (FEMA). Agency Management frameworks. He also continued directing directing the He also continued frameworks. which is now City, on the Arab group research new and adding in new directions moving partners. Nasser Rabbat Faculty Nasser is the Aga Khan Professor and theNasser is Professor Khan the Aga Islamic for of Khan Program Director the Aga book is His most recent at MIT. Architecture From Heritage: The Destruction of Cultural book co-edited an online with Napoléon to ISIS, and published Karimi our own alumna Pamela http://we-aggregate.org/ in December 2016, project/the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage- He is still intermittently . from-napoleon-to-isis biography intellectual working on his expanding of historian al-Maqrizi. the 15th century essays several Nasser published In the last year, on immigration, on the plight of the refugees, and damages the and on reconstruction to the The MIT Faculty heritage in Artforum, Syrian The of Books, Review London The Newsletter, Journal of Islamic Architecture, International and al-Hayat The Globe and Mail, Qantara, He has co-curated newspapers. al-Jadid al-Arabi at A Living History,” “Syria: the exhibition, between Toronto Khan Museum in the Aga He co-founded 2017. October 2016 and March a professional Heritage (SIMAT) for Syrians with the preservation concerned association At heritage. cultural Syrian of the threatened project research a collaborative he formed MIT, of Intervention,” “Ethics named on the topic, on the debates theto frame which strives of heritage and in the planning preservation by devastated in countries reconstruction for and humanistic civil, within ethical, civil wars AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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and chaired a panel for the Universities Art the Universities for a panel and chaired She on of the Canada Association theme. speaking efforts, outreach her also continued about schoolchildren MA to Cambridge, the Ottoman for interview Angela’s architecture. http://www. here: can be found History Podcast ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/ alevi-architecture.html of Angela is the Hamad bin Khalifa the recipient from and fellowships in Islamic Art, Fellowship Research the Social Sciences and Humanities Cultural Turkish the of Canada, Council Studies in Religion for the Centre Foundation, and Victoria, and Society at of the University the awarded She was other scholarly bodies. Art in Islamic Prize Sevcenko B. 2016 Margaret by the Historians of Art Islamic and Culture Association. Angela Andersen Angela 2016-2017 Fellows Post-Doctoral and intra-religious the inter- Angela examines place via that interactions builtthe take including agency and visibility environment, of minorityas embodied in the architecture She has in the Islamic world. Muslim groups Muslim communities with Alevi worked recently to study diaspora and in the European Turkey in and use of their ceremonial the development in both historictheir known as cemevis, sites, contexts. and contemporary working with oral experience Professional withhistories led Angela interviews to utilize use-communities as a means to understanding in herThis resulted art and architecture. University, The Ohio State dissertation work at Turkish-speaking to which she spoke for memories, their architectural regarding Alevis along with and observations, experiences, architecture. of site studies extant conducting examine works Her published and forthcoming between human rights issues of the relationship and the in Islam, diversity and architecture, such as poetry sources overlooked use of often While at history. in the study of architectural the manuscript Angela developed AKPIA@MIT, An Examination her project Cemevleri: for and Contemporary of the Historical Roots . and Iconography Architecture Meanings of Alevi began work on an edited She concurrently places of worship in the addressing volume Islamic world outside the mosque paradigm, AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA with the new Centre for Water Informatics and Informatics Water for with the new Centre (WIT) of University at Lahore the Technology which Pakistan, in (LUMS) Sciences Management titled Basin, on Indus River the held a conference Jim is producing in January 2017. and Future Past as a River “The Indus a documentary titled Lahore. set in Shalamar Bagh, Garden,” of MIT’s a co-director Jim became Finally, Center and Planning’s School of Architecture together with Urbanism (CAU), Advanced for of Alan Berger the DepartmentProf of Urban on focuses The Center Studies and Planning. planning issues of urban and regional complex with an emphasis on environmental, worldwide, AKPIA and CAU processes. and cultural spatial, of Khan Agency the Aga Verjee Firoz hosted Dr. Habitat during his visit for in 2017. to MIT

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Sara Berger Berger Sara Sara is a PhD student with a strong interest in interest is a PhD student with a strong Sara contexts. in cross-cultural aesthetic philosophy and the Arab on France work focuses Her current world in and early the nineteenth twentieth questions of considering time as it centuries, poetry from to media ranging to diverse relates recent She is the arts. film and the decorative to pursue grant research of a MISTI recipient work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs archival in Paris. and in Paris. the Institut du Monde Arabe 2016-2017 PhD Students El Hadi Jazairy ). His work has been widely recognized His work has been widely recognized ). El Hadi is an Assistant Professor of Architecture El Hadi is an Assistant Professor at of Michigan and founding the University (www.design-earth. partner of DESIGN EARTH org including an Architectural awards, with several two Faculty Architects, Young for Prize League ofthe Association from Design Awards a Jacques Schools of Architecture, Collegiate a Europan Prize, First Foundation’s Rougerie He de l’Urbanisme. d’Or and a Regle 6 Award, (Actar, Trash of of Geographies is co-author 2016) (MIT SAP, Cosmograms 2015) and Two of New Geographies as well as editor-in-chief His 2010). GSD, Scales of the Earth4: (Harvard Design published in Harvard writings are recent Journal of Architectural Volume, Pidgin, Magazine, San Geography, of Cultural Journal Education, El Hadi . Topos and Review Avery MONU, Rocco, School of Graduate Harvard holds a DDes from and a University, Cornell from an MArch Design, in Brussels. La Cambre from BArch Burak Erdim Burak AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Burak is an Assistant Professor of Architectural of Architectural is an Assistant Professor Burak where University State History at North Carolina on he the and seminar courses lecture teaches and urbanismhistory of to the in relation production space exploring of colonialism, political processes and economic neo-colonialism, nationalism, decolonization, the examines research His and globalization. planning cultures of transnational operations IIand period the War World during the post of ofthe disciplines reconceptualization planning as one of and community architecture of social and economic components the central War. during projects the Cold reconstruction on the establishment work focuses His current Technical and planning of the Middle East initially founded which was (METU), University and Community as a School of Architecture METU’s in 1956. Turkey, Planning in Ankara, academic institution as an conceptualization model stands outand a land development as the product of among its contemporaries and agencies operating of agents a full range regularly contributes Erdim during this period. and symposia on to publications transnational on METU essays One of his recent modernisms. Modernism in in Mid-Century featured was in the 1950s Cultures across Architecture Turkey: (Routledge, Gürel Meltem Ö. edited by and 1960s, his PhD in December 2012 He received 2015). in the History of Artthe from and Architecture he also completed where Virginia of University in Architecture. degree his Master’s

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 13 Iheb Guermazi Iheb is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory in Iheb is a PhD candidate the History, at and Art and Criticism of Architecture (HTC) with program Aga Khan the He is affiliated MIT. a Bachelor He holds Islamic Architecture. for 2009) (MArch and a Masters of Architecture As Tunisia. of Carthage in the University from a Masters Iheb completed Scholar, a Fulbright at Theorythe of Architecture in History and His 2014). (MsArch Washington of University “The Esoteric entitled provisionally dissertation, Ivan From of Islamic Art: Interpretations the examines Hossein Nasr,” Aguely to Seyyed hermeneutics of artmetaphysical that were Western in by the century developed twentieth converts. Sufi also include the interests research Iheb’s in the Islamic city, question of sin and morality theory inthe place of postmodern architectural and of and issues identity contexts, postcolonial Iheb has worked in architecture. representation and in France practices architectural at various architect and partner atChina and is currently Tunis. based in office an architecture S3, Azra Dawood Azra Azra is a PhD candidate studying American is a PhD candidate Azra and architecture postcolonial philanthropy, and ofthe politics and aesthetics urbanism, Rockefeller, D. “John Her dissertation, religion. of Protestant and the Architecture Jr. investigates (1919-1945),” Internationalism between patronage architectural Rockefeller’s with a special emphasis Wars, World the two Studenton of International construction the and museums and France, Houses in the U.S. of Chicago’s the University and dig-houses for By focusing Institute in Oriental the Middle East. Azra theological ideology, on their patron’s these eclectic and wide-ranging conceptualizes oeuvre. a coherent into projects as an architect in Karachi, has worked Azra from a BArch She received York. and New Austin, (2001) and an at Austin Texas of the University Her work has been MIT (2010). from SMArchS and other University, Columbia at MIT, presented supported has been and her research venues, Archive the Rockefeller by Foundation, the SOM and other institutions. Center, Alexandra Courcoula Alexandra AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Alexandra is a PhD Candidate in Khanthe Aga is a PhD Candidate Alexandra She is at MIT. Islamic Architecture for Program Turkey, in Greece, research conducting currently and Egypt dissertation her project ontowards which was of Islamic art, the Benaki collection Egypt in early the twentieth Alexandria, in formed housed in the Benaki and eventually century her studyThrough Greece. Museum in Athens, to understand seeks of Alexandra the collection the politics of art in interwar and historiography Alexandra joining the program, Before Greece. in an MA the History of Artreceived and and NYU Archaeology Arts, at the Institute of Fine She College. Wellesley in Arta BA History from at a number of including museums also worked and the the Museum of Modern ArtYork in New in Montreal. Architecture for Centre Canadian

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 14 Courtney Lesoon Courtney Courtney is a second year PhD student in year the is a second Courtney Islamic Architecture, for Khan Program Aga Theory & Criticism section of in History, the She atthe Department MIT. of Architecture of the Holy Cross College from earned her BA (History of Art)the University from and her MA & Northof (Modern Middle Eastern Michigan a 2012-2013 was Courtney Studies). African to the United Grantee Student Fulbright U.S. concerned her research where Emirates Arab art in production the UAE. contemporary as a worked Courtney arriving at MIT, Before Assistant in the ArtResearch of the Middle East MuseumDepartment Angeles County at the Los at MIT Her dissertation research of Art (LACMA). of learning in urbanism and centers concerns Other and North Africa. Levant the medieval mosque contemporary include interests research outside of Islamicthe architecture traditionally and the medieval Damascene interiors, world, generally. more Mediterranean Chantal El Hayek Chantal Chantal is a PhD candidate whose work is a PhD candidate Chantal and urban on modern architectural concentrates in urbanism with an emphasis on French history, interested generally She is cities. Mediterranean of (especially colonial in urban historiography between modern urban and connections cities) Master of holds a Science Chantal planning. MIT, Theory from History and in Architectural in Architecture Master a post-professional and a Bachelor in University, Princeton from Americanthe Lebanese from Architecture a teacher she was joining MIT, Before University. and a theory and design studios, of architectural architect.practicing Huma Gupta Huma Gupta (2015), (2015), www.internal-displacement.org AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA “Community-Based Monitoring Toolkit,” www. Toolkit,” Monitoring “Community-Based and and “Sex (2013), communitymonitoring.org in Humanitarian Response Improving Matter: Age (2011). Emergencies” Huma is a PhD candidate in KhanHuma is a PhD candidate the Aga Her Islamic Architecture. for Program “Informal titled dissertation is tentatively of Modern and Settlements the Formation MIT’s from graduated previously She Iraq.” Department of Studies with a Master’s Urban in has a BA in City Planning in 2011 and Historythe University from Middle Eastern lie in interests Her research of Cincinnati. urban planning practices century twentieth in the Middle discourses and development specifically Baghdad, Asia, East and Central Huma 2011 to 2013, From Damascus and Kabul. Watch Integrity for Afghanistan in worked in seven communities on training Afghanistan infrastructure to monitor small provinces the in Damascus for Huma worked projects. & Administration Ministry of Local Syrian include, publications Her in 2008. Environment and Housing Practices “Home Sweet Home: Urbanthat Support Solutions for Durable Tools IDPs,”

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 15 Ali Khodr Ali is a SMArchS 2017 graduate from MIT in the from 2017 graduate Ali is a SMArchS He Islamic Architecture. for Khan Program Aga the from his Bachelor in Architecture received where of BeirutAmerican University in 2015, of a museum his the creation thesis examined of to of civilization target fragmentation the His current basin. in identity the Levantine aims to oftackle notions nationalismresearch of reconstructions in and identity the successive his home city. Beirut, Rio Fischer 2016-2017 Students SMArchS MIT in from 2017 graduate Rio is a SMArchS Islamic Architecture. for Khan Program the Aga in Philosophy Degree He holds a Bachelor’s Claremont Studies from and Middle Eastern and his in California, College McKenna worksthe thesis examined undergraduate Rio’s MIT, At Hana Minah. novelist of Syrian of spaces intersecting on focus interests research He continues and aesthetics. politics, theology, Their Wescoat. James to work with Professor waterscape changing paper on Kalcutta’s in Bengal land use and land reclamation tracked during Mughal rule.

Sarah Rifky Sarah AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA (2013) and of the forthcoming “Vol. 47: Repeat!” Repeat!” 47: “Vol. (2013) and of the forthcoming journal of art a peer-reviewed , of Thresholds contributor She is a regular and architecture. to art including Art publications in America, amongst others. , Columns Four Art Agenda, Theory, student of History, is a doctoral Sarah Islamic for Criticism and Khan Program the Aga been she has Most recently, at MIT. Architecture as Artistic of ArteEast.appointed Director Sarah studies modern and contemporary and contemporary studies modern Sarah in its function agent as with an interest art, of capitalism and in accounts in late provocateur art She studied at the American global history. in her MFA and received Cairo, in University the Malmö ArtCritical Studies from Academy, Lund University. of an art Beirut, and initiative is co-founder Sarah co- she was (2012-2015); in Cairo space exhibition curator of Jogjakarta Biennale XII (2013); curator agent (2009-2011) and curatorial Townhouse of on of She serves the board dOCUMENTA(13). for young school for an artist-run Alexandria, MASS She is co-editor of Positionen: in Egypt. artists, Welt aus der Arabischen Künstler Zeitgenössische

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José Luis Argüello Administration all administrative, for José Luis is responsible for tasks financial and graphics/web-related of exhibition A retrospective the AKPIA Program. at at mounted MIT libraries the his posters was on pieces he worked In music, the end of 2016. The summer Mompou. Grieg, Barber, by Rorem, Valses Ravel’s into as he broke French, very was Images and Debussy’s nobles et sentimentales Images II and the latter’s with revisiting along I, LisztThe yearly of book preludes. the second met by challenge was ofthe transcription and czardas, the 2 late Miserere Verdi’s in 1884.composed Sera Tolgay Sera Sera is a dual degree candidate in candidate the Master is a dual degree Sera of Planning and Master of City Science in Khan Program Studies (Aga Architecture She is originally Islamic Architecture). for is at the research Her Turkey. , from heritage of landscape ecology, intersection development, and community conservation systems in arid climates, on water with a focus Prior particularly in Mediterranean. the Eastern environmental on various she worked to MIT, at projects planning and urban development has a Sera Istanbul. Studio-X and EMBARQ UNDP, science and policy in environmental background University. Yale from her BA and received Suheyla Takesh Suheyla AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Suheyla is a second year Master’s student in Master’s year is a second Suheyla Islamic Architecture for Khan Program the Aga in Degree her Bachelor’s received She at MIT. the American University Design from Interior at Prior MIT, to enrolling of in 2012. Sharjah at working as a curator years she spent three in the Barjeel Art the United Arab Foundation of Under the Foundation, the umbrella Emirates. Abu Dhabi, in Sharjah, exhibitions she curated in and most recently Toronto, City, Kuwait Amman. cultural addresses research Suheyla’s MIT, At between the Soviet and Union exchanges the with in century, the mid-twentieth World Arab on a particularthe work of Mahmoud focus modernist began his career who an Iraqi Sabri, in Baghdad in the 1950s and went on to pursue Art at the Surikov degree Institute in a graduate in the 1960s. Moscow

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 17 collection of Caroline and John Williams; Williams; and John of Caroline collection and a born-digital of from images collection throughout Daniel C. the Muslim world from at Emeritus of the University Professor Waugh, Seattle. Washington, saw the end of a highly successfulThis year TALIM project between collaborative three-year Institute for Legation American Tangier (The and College Wellesley Studies), Moroccan Highlighting the collaboration, AKDC@MIT. of selected an exhibition curated Toler Michael of collection the glass negatives from prints annual meeting of the and organized TALIM American Tangier of the and Fellows Board (TALIM), Studies Moroccan for Institute Legation by AKDC@MIT. sponsored Gallery, with R & Company AKDC collaborated exhibition a retrospective in preparing York, New the exhibition, For Tayar. ofon Ali the works AKDC , & One-Offs Systems Tayar: Ali entitled sketchbooks. Tayar’s of Mr. loaned several on Archnet. The virtual is available exhibition with AKPIA@MIT hostto AKDC also worked (2001-2016), Posters AKPIA aJosé Luis Argüello: of poster art exhibition created retrospective As with all AKDC sponsored the Program. for a digitalthis too will become exhibitions, on Archnet.exhibition on widely lectured this year have AKDC staff topics concerning all aspects of our Center, and in the field heritage, cultural documenting of art in Muslim societies. and architecture participate in associations regularly they Further, to our fields of study related and organizations and research. plan for the release of an open access version release the plan for status AKDC@MIT’s community. the larger for is furtherwithin by this realm evidenced the our co- public acknowledgement Archnet, Culture) for Trust Khan and Aga (AKDC directed has received platform, globally accessible digital Archnet was Last year, the pastover two years. leadership for Report noted in the NMC Horizon Content,” Accessibility of Research “Increasing in named one ofand in January 2017 Archnet was websites of 2016 by the 20 Architecture Top the Global Grid. of the recipient AKDC was Once again, noted scholars and from gifts major several in practitioners the field artof Islamic and as well as those documentingarchitecture Of in Muslim societies. visual culture received Center the particular significance, and Rifat of Kamil archive the photographic a Chadirji (1897-1968) was Kamil Chadirji. politician and leader of Democratic the National 1926) is a Chadirji (b. Rifat His son, in Iraq. Party and author, architect, distinguished international his architectural who donated photographer archive, The esteemed to AKDC lastarchive year. and images, negatives 100,000 of ca. consisting and aspects of cultures many documents in as well as the built environment, social life, In addition, 1930-1990. ca. world from the Arab copies of the early microfilm the thought-lost Baghdad Chadirji’s Rifat working papers from donated and found were practice architectural , Chadirji Archive inclusion in the Rifat to AKDC for Other long since destroyed. the paper copies of include the archive this year notable gifts the 1959-2016); teaching (architect, Tayar Ali archnetmaps. AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA at MIT Center Documentation Khan Aga 2016 marked the five-year anniversary of anniversary the five-year 2016 marked at MIT Center Khan Documentation the Aga re-envisioned Formally (AKDC@MIT). Libraries with ofthe hiring and restructured Program the quickly was AKDC@MIT Head in August 2011, research for of excellence as a center recognized as well as and study of the built environment, in Muslim societies. and visual culture, material the occasion by hosting celebrated The Center and staff MIT Libraries’ an open house for showing with a sample of AKPIA@MIT affiliates our collections. of digital at the forefront AKDC@MIT remains data year, this scholarship/humanities and, of LayerCake. with the development visualization is a 3-axis mapping tool that enables LayerCake time, narrative, users to build maps layering by Envisioned and space simultaneously. Sharon Head and project PI, AKDC Program the tothanks tool became a reality Smith, C. Yamada expertise of James the programming A GSD). Harvard in Design Studies, (Master’s with the of fully realized prototype the tool was assistance of Ali Asgar Alibhai (PhD candidate, for the content who provided NELC) Harvard the pilot project sources by analyzing textual 12th-century pilgrimage from of Ibn Jubayr’s ( The prototype Spain to . 2017. in February released ) was herokuapp.com Ibn Jubayr’s map documents The resulting and with geographically, temporally, travels descriptions of the cities andaccompanying about Images and information sites he visited. to Archnetthose cities and sites links to provide to AKDC continues the users. for context more as we the interface, refining LayerCake, develop

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 18 Betsy Baldwin Betsy Betsy has worked at MIT Libraries since 2008, since 2008, at MIT Libraries Betsy has worked since Center at Khan Documentation the Aga theArchivist for and became Collections 2012, to processes Betsy continues 2016. in late Center among collections, and describe our archival and the Tayar, Ali Chadirji, them those of Rifat Archives. Chadirji Photographic and Rifat Kamil use of a new collectionShe is implementing which management system (ArchivesSpace), better access will enable us to ourto provide and students Betsy assists faculty, material. and Harvard AKPIA MIT, from researchers digitization, she also selects items for elsewhere; storage. off-site and for preservation, College at Hampshire Betsy earned her BA and photography. ceramics, on fine art, focusing management She earned her MLIS in archival she is certified and by the Simmons; from Prior to working Archivists. of Certified Academy of in thethe archives Betsy worked at MIT, Betsy is Museum of Art 13 years. Metropolitan for with active the Society of American Archivists. day event event day meeting. This meeting was held at MIT with This meeting was the meeting. and the 2½ assistance of staff, AKDC the mostwas meeting in highly attended the history of 44-year organization. the Theory of a PhD in History holds and Sharon Art Binghamton History from and Architecture include of specialization Her areas University. andthe art of Muslim cultures and architecture Modern Italy. Early Sharon C. Smith C. Sharon Since 2011, Sharon has been responsible for has been responsible Sharon Since 2011, and development, the creation, overseeing of services and leadership of a full array and students, in support of faculty, programs of AKPIA and community. larger the researchers a of Archnet, as Co-Director also serves Sharon focused resource intellectual globally-accessible, environmental urbanism, on architecture, and visual culture, and landscape design, to Muslim worldthe issues related conservation a 3-axis mapping tool that LayerCake, and PI for narrative, enables users to build maps layering is active Sharon and space simultaneously. time, Heritage Cultural Safeguarding in UNESCO’s of in a Participating the role initiative in Syria Expert. widely on issuesto lecture continues Sharon and the digitization, of documentation, as well as on art of knowledge, dissemination on visualhistorical topics primarily focused in Modernthe Early culture and material in spoke Sharon This year, Mediterranean. panel chair, lecturer, the capacity of invited and campuses at conferences and presenter MIT, RSA, BRISMES, but notincluding, limited to: University, San Jose State Khan University, Aga and UCL-Qatar. (Canada), University Western of Middle East president current Sharon, as vice served (MELA), Association Librarians the 2016 annual chair for and program president AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 19 Michael A. Toler Toler Michael A. Michael holds a PhD in Comparative Literature Literature Michael holds a PhD in Comparative He works (SUNY). University Binghamton from at Center in Khan Documentation Aga the MIT (AKDC@MIT) Manager as the Content with Archnet’s In consultation Archnet. for enhancing for responsible he is co-directors, of managing processing the the collection, of the development coordinating and materials, He also handles user support and creation site. including user guidesof instructional materials videos. and demonstration the Board for In 2016 Michael became Secretary Institute Legation American Tangier of the His article on Studies (TALIM). of Moroccan College Wellesley and AKDC@MIT, TALIM, the Old Medina to the Tangier’s “From collaboration, in Resources Visual the to Make Efforts World: American Legation Tangier of the Collection the Widely More Studies Moroccan Institute for in the 2016 issue of MELA appeared Available,” Notes (https://archnet.org/collections/921/ ). collections/1217 two Michael organized Smith, Sharon With of cultural panels on digital preservation meeting ofthe 2017 heritage for the British during Studies, Middle Eastern Society for of Moroccan a collection which he presented by digitized the Library in 1959, music recorded and now being made TALIM, and of Congress on Archnet. available Matt Saba AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF INSTITUTE MASSACHUSETTS OF ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Matt is the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic for Librarian Resources Visual Matt is the at Khan Documentation the Aga Architecture Matt joining the AKDC, Before at MIT. Center in the Islamic Art fellow a postdoctoral was Department at Museum of Metropolitan the include palace interests research Art. Matt’s and early Islamic antique in late architecture and the history of and Mesopotamia, Syria scholarship on Islamic art. He is also interested and cataloging for on methods in research and ofthe use heritage, cultural preserving in artimages as evidence scholarship. historical Languages and in Near Eastern Matt holds a BA and a PhD in Art Civilizations Historythe from of Chicago. University

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 20 February 23February Change? or Embracing Tradition “Sustaining Visualizing of and the Strategies Prisse d’Avennes Books in French of Cairo Islamic Architecture (1860-80)” Banas Paulina AKPIA Associate Harvard 23 March al-Mu min and Abd “The Making of Marrakesh: the Almohad Legacy” Stockstill Abbey Department of History of ArtPhD Candidate, R. William University; Harvard & Architecture, & Landscape Studies, in Garden Fellow Tyler Dumbarton Oaks April 6 under and Baghdad the in Iran “The Saljuqs” Kamali Maryam AKPIA Associate Harvard April 20 in Medieval and the Cenotaphic “Aesthetics Iberian Culture” Enass Khansa at Harvard Fellow Mellon Postdoctoral Project Cathedral The Santiago University; Associate AKPIA Harvard (Spain); November 3 November Spaces and Urban Public “Sensing the City: Isfahan” in Safavid Experience Emami Farshid Department of History of ArtPhD Candidate, University Harvard and Architecture, 1 December and Istanbul Suburbs: “Imperial Ceremonies of the Turn at and Davutpasa the Üsküdar Century” Seventeenth Kawamoto Satoshi Promotionthe Japan Society for Fellow, Research AKPIA Associate Harvard of Science;

. http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/ 2016-2017 HARVARD LECTURE SERIES: LECTURE SERIES: 2016-2017 HARVARD AND ISLAMIC FOR A FORUM ART ARCHITECTURE 5:30–6:30Thursdays, held on are AKPIA lectures Sackler 318 of the Arthur Room in M. pm, 485 Broadway. University, Harvard Building, and open For to free the public. are Lectures please visit additional information, October 6 of Architectural Almohad “The Nature Ornament” Jessica Streit of Art Assistant and Architectural Professor of Charleston The College History, on Medieval with the Committee Co-Sponsored Studies AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 21 Supporting Student Travel Conferences to Travel Supporting Student Islamic Architecture for Khan Program The Aga either full or partial pleased to provide was attendingsupport students the following for during the 2016-17conferences year: Dikici attended the student Ezgi Graduate Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies held on November in Boston, (MESA) Association has held an annual MESA Since 1967, 2016. 17-20, members to gather to for meeting in the fall 50th anniversary MESA’s this was research; share a variety 312 sessions on offering meeting, and to Middle Eastof studies, topics related attendees. than 2,000 more attracting to Yildiz traveled student Ozge Graduate Roxburgh David with Professor D.C. Washington “The Art of the Qur’an: to view the exhibition and Turkish the Museum of from Treasures Gallery of Art at the Freer and Islamic Art,” the Smithsonian Sackler Gallery, Arthur M. museums of Asian art. Institution’s AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA 2016-2017 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS AND2016-2017 EVENTS ACTIVITIES University at Harvard Khan Program The Aga disseminates and nurtures, promotes, actively on the history of artresearch and architecture in Islamic world the the scholarshipthrough activitiesthe of its and teaching of its faculty, the sponsorship of Khanthe Aga students, Series, Lecture the AKPIA Program, Associateship An Annual on and of : the publication . World of Cultures the Islamic Visual the Acquisition Events AKPIA Library 2017 2016 and April 12, 2, November in Islamic (Bibliographer Riedlmayer András Art Arts in Library)the Fine and Architecture Resources (Visual and Gwendolyn Collaço Islamic Art hosted for and Architecture) Librarian to discuss recent events Tell” “Show and two These were collections. additions to the library’s faculty, students, for social gatherings informal and other members of associates the AKPIA community.

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 22 Plenary speaker, SUNY Binghamton’s Center for Center SUNY Binghamton’s Plenary speaker, Binghamton, Studies, and Renaissance Medieval York New 2016 October 21-22, a plenary lecture delivered Roxburgh David Medieval for Center at SUNY Binghamton’s Studies during a two-day and Renaissance all aspects of addressing the study of conference the Celebrating book as artifact. the pre-modern Centerfounding of of the anniversary the fiftieth Studies (CEMERS) and Renaissance Medieval for hosted the center the University, at Binghamton on and visuality ofthe materiality conference until antiquity late book (from the pre-modern 1600). lu traveled to Hungary to deliverlu traveled Language in the Arts II: Art Language in the Arts II: and Workshop, North and Iran Countries, in the Arab Writing Antibes, Hartung Bergman, Fondation , Africa France 2016 July 29-31, participated in a workshop Roxburgh David Hartung Bergman, hosted by the Fondation This group in on Language the Arts. Antibes, curators, artists, of art comprised was historians, part the second This was of the and critics. “language seminar dedicated to the subject of The first round of symposium, this in arts”. the in the “language,” on the focused held in 2014, its meaning, text, sense of written and spoken as Western, in understanding and expression This year, art. contemporary Eastern, well as Far between the a parallel the symposium draws world and Western in the creation contemporary and North Africa. Iran countries, in the Arab Commemorative 1566: Guest lecture at Szigetvár, and on the Siege of Szigetvár Conference and Miklós Zrínyi’s Süleyman the Magnificent’s Hungary of Pécs, University , Death 2016 September 6-9, Gülru Necipog˘ Arts, “The Aesthetics of Empire: a lecture titled in the Construction Commerce and Politics, at the Magnificence,” of Sultan Süleyman’s Commemorative 1566: titled Szigetvár conference and on the Siege of Szigetvár Conference and Miklós Zrinyi’s Süleyman the Magnificent’s for Center by the Research organized , Death the Humanities of ofthe Hungarian Academy of Pécs. Sciences and the University

Gülru Necipog˘lu traveled to the Netherlands traveled Gülru Necipog˘lu “Transregional lecture the keynote to deliver and the Construction Architecture Connections: at the Modern Islamic Empires” of Early at conference Empires Eurasian interdisciplinary of Leiden. the University Ara¸s tırmaları Derneg˘i) to give a lecture a lecture titledto give tırmaları Derneg˘i) Ara¸s and ofthe Concept Culture “Architectural on Observations in of Sinan: the Age Decorum Contradictory and Misinterpretations Today’s Technical at Istanbul Practices” Architectural University. Empires at the Eurasian speaker Keynote the University, Leiden Gravensteen, , Conference Netherlands 2016 June 15-17, AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Guest lecture at of Research the Association Istanbul and Heritage, Culture on Architectural Turkey University, Technical 2016 17, May by invited the Association was Gülru Necipog˘lu and Culture on Architectural of Research Mirası ve Heritage (Mimarlık Kültürü

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 23 Guest lecture at the Arts of Mughal & Culture Institute, Oriental Cama K.R. , India Conference India Mumbai, 2017 January 8-9, invited to Mumbai was to Gülru Necipog˘lu Connections: “Transregional the lecture deliver and of Early the Construction Architecture titled at a conference Modern Islamic Empires” at held the The Arts of Mughal India, & Culture The Institute in Mumbai. Oriental Cama K.R. of research-related weeks three off kicked event in the Deccan: Gülru Necipog˘lu for travel Hyderabad, Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Belgaum, and Jaipur. Daulatabad, Aurangabad, Aga Khan established in the Award in 1977 to Khan established in Aga the Award that building concepts and encourage identify the needs and aspirations successfully address of in which Muslims have the communities is a Gülru Necipog˘lu a significant presence. member of the Steering Committee. current AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Khan Award Aga Emirates United Arab Dubai, 2016 5-7, November Gülru Necipog˘lu shakes the hand of His shakes Gülru Necipog˘lu of Director while Highness Khan, the Aga Farrokh Architecture for Khan Award the Aga at Khan Award the Aga on, looks Derakhshani dinner and reception Ceremony Architecture for of Khanthe 2016 Aga The recipients in Dubai. diverse represent Architecture for Award Iran, Denmark, China, in Bangladesh, projects to responses creative offering and Lebanon, change, issues such as climate contemporary and the challenge between people, connectivity His Highness the of adapting to new contexts.

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A Companion to Islamic ArtA Companion , Architecture and Barry Flood and Gülru edited by Finbarr Wiley-Blackwell published by was Necipog˘lu, to Artin Companions their Blackwell History series. The two-volume set contains over fifty fifty over setThe contains two-volume series. written many essays, especially commissioned These authors. by seventy collaboratively, the field in all its grandeur, survey volumes original approaches whilst encouraging new to canonical subjects and offering neglected topics. scholarship on previously bridge the gap between The essays the of survey summary the treatment traditional are They and monograph. the specialized to a new chronological- according organized the that remaps paradigm geographical of expansion the field in unprecedented and reflects the nuances of years recent major artistic political developments and early Islam during a 1400-year span from artto scene. the modern and contemporary volume begins with a general The first by the editors, co-authored introduction approaches, concepts, which outlines relevant a framework providing and historiographies, within which to understand and the structure the volumes, Within of both volumes. contents each period by a shortthe editors introduce and political outlining the major cultural essay by during the period covered developments Finbarr include Authors articles. the associated Roxburgh J. David Gülru Necipog˘lu, Flood, B. Cummins. F.B. Thomas and

which Qajar artists freely embraced new artistswhich Qajar embraced freely oftechnologies image. mass-produced the in most art been disparaged While having attempts recent more historical scholarship, in embroiled become to assess it have of and limited notions modernity. problematic processes the complex examined The lecture and the fluidity exchange of inter-medium the before and mobility of images in an era of the concept of medium development aboutspecificity and as ideas the distinction still forming. between art were and craft Washington University, Seattle Guest lecture, 2017 25, March as a guest invited was Roxburgh David “Saturday University’s at Seattle speaker Art Practices/ Asia: Islam Across University This lecture Series. Lecture Politics” Cultural guest scholars and artists, series featured role central aspects of Islam’s and covered David’s in Asian artand presence and culture. Sultan Calligrapher “Master titled was lecture in The Art of Herat and Culture Mashhadi: ‘Ali 15th Century.” the late Islamic Artto A Companion and Architecture and Finbarr Gülru by Edited Necipog˘lu Barry Flood Artto Companions History Wiley-Blackwell 2017 series, Guest lecture, Zentralinstitut für Zentralinstitut Guest lecture, Ludwig-Maximilians Kunstgeschichte, Germany Munich, Universität, 2017 January 18, a lecture titled delivered Roxburgh David Views Timurid Sorcerers’: “‘Magic-Making at the c.1413-1447” Herat, on Chinese Art, Ludwig- für Kunstgeschichte, Zentralinstitut A wide Munich. Maximilians Universität, and artworks reflect of sources textual variety of reception Timurid of nature the complex Chinese art not only seen firsthand which was but portable also mediated through objects. and attitudes Timurid examines The lecture of Chinese objects. to a wide range responses Turkey Istanbul, Sabancı University, Guest lecture, 2017 6, March by Sabancı invited was Gülru Necipog˘lu a lecture titled to deliver University Architecture Connections: “Transregional Modern Early Three and of the Construction and the Safavids Ottomans, Islamic Empires: Mughals.” and Global History Turn Visual Symposium, de College during Modern Period, the Early Paris France, 2017 10, March invited to speak at was the Roxburgh David in the symposium Paris, de France, College and Global History during Turn on the Visual “A His lecture titled . Modern Period the Early Technologies New of Duplicates? Proliferation discussed Iran” of the Image in 19th-Century the topic of art of made during the reign in Iran, the Qajar dynasty in 19th-Century AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 25 heroes. Because these types of works were Because these were types of works heroes. as for technical materials originally created mostartists have use in to their daily work, been lost of repeated as a result time over This use and subsequent damage or disposal. opportunity not only a rare offers publication the ingenuity of the individual to appreciate but also to gain a better understanding works, system of artistic and of production the entire The book unites in 19th-century Iran. exchange facsimile with a beautiful full-size 12 essays the necessarily From of album. the complete global story of how album came the to be Arthoused at the Harvard Museums— and the England, Germany, spanning Iran, United States—to in-depththe examination the of individual themes and techniques, a rich network of artistic exposes publication In doing and innovation. exchange, influence, it calls on us whatto question has been so, outleft of the dominant histories of art and definitions possible alternative to consider The “modern.” of what can be thought of as of the Image: “Technologies exhibition, related on view at was the Art Iran,” in 19th-Century 2017 Art August 26, Harvard Museums from 2018. January 7, through considers how the breadth of and mediums how the breadth considers subject by evidenced objectsthese matters formats only by be matched the diverse could and embodied which images were through their unlike Indeed, in the world. circulated Qajar artists and contemporaries, European not about concerned systems were patrons and of duplication image translation—a aspect key up in its effort this book takes art Qajar to approach on its own terms. the exhibition accompanies This catalogue Art in 19th- of the Image: “Technologies on view at which was the Iran,” Century 2017 Art August 26, Harvard Museums from 2018. January 7, through Qajar Iran from Drawings An Album of Artists’ Roxburgh J. David by Edited 2017 ArtHarvard Museums, Catalogues), 2018 First (Exhibition Place Winner, England Museum Association New with nearly Album—57 folios, Qajar Harvard’s and embossed prints, paintings, 150 drawings, wide-ranging a remarkably works—is studies; and floral animal, of human, collection by Persian inspired compositions narrative and historical subjects; classic literature of rulers and and portraits themes; religious With a few notable exceptions, scholars notable exceptions, a few With and often historically understudied have the art in the Qajar of Iran underappreciated a (c.1779–1925). presents This catalogue era on setting the arttake fresh of the period, judgments that early shaped aside the value and the effects to instead examine responses of new technologies of representation results The book of mediums. a variety across and relationship inherent the foregrounds both among mediums and images, movement deflecting while primary and new, traditional to more patronage royal from attention of image- public and widely accessible forms principal In bringing together four making. on and drawing painting art forms—lacquer, and photography—the lithography, paper, intertwined and the separate authors explore of their contexts histories of these mediums, and their means of dissemination production, the from sectors of ranging society across The book courtly elite to at large. the citizenry Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th Century of the Image: Technologies Iran Mary and Roxburgh J. David by Edited McWilliams 2017 ArtHarvard Museums, AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 26 The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University is pleased to announce University the at Harvard Islamic Architecture for Khan Program The Aga Brill Publishers: purchase through for is now available This volume of Muqarnas 33 (2016). publication . https://brill.com MUQARNAS: AN ANNUAL ON THE VISUAL CULTURES OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD THE ISLAMIC OF CULTURES VISUAL THE AN ANNUAL ON MUQARNAS: AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 27 world from the formative era of Islam up to era the formative world from types various It covers period. the early modern shrines, palaces, , of building—e.g. city astypes multifunctional complexes—and whetherwell as the factors that shaped them, religio-cultural, socio-political, patronal, artistic, case study is divided into Each or economic. theThe first presents lecture two lectures. The it. through “walking” monument or site by to particular is devoted lecture themessecond in light developed study, the case elicited from and sites and/or monuments of comparative of and patronage, to problems written sources, as and meaning they audience, production, pertain history in broad to Islamic architectural terms. History of Art 228X and Architecture Spiritual and Calligraphy: Islamic Epigraphy Geometries and Bodily Instruments Roxburgh J. David the use of writing on examines This course artthe Islamic lands from and architecture with an emphasis on the period between ca. key will introduce The course 600 and 1500. methodologies in the study of writing and the conventions, orthographic of scripts, full range and cultural Aesthetic, content. and textual as wellsociopolitical questions will be treated critical issues about as pressing the use of A working knowledge of Arabic, writing in Islam. is recommended. or Persian Turkish, Ottoman successors in Greater Iran and Central Asia in Central and Iran Greater successors in campaigns and the Timur’s between the years political power in 1507. demise of the dynasty’s Timur Genghis Khan, after Modeling himself Asia, Central Iran, and his armies traversed and Anatolia the Middle East, India, Afghanistan, nomadicthe last great to create the Caucasus and achievements strategies Timur’s empire. and mediated thethrough modeled after were by HuleguMongol Ilkhanid dynasty established Timurids the realm in cultural the in 1256; fostered adopted the model of patronage up alongside dynasties that grew by several leftthe Ilkhanids and in the power vacuum order imperial Timur’s by its demise in 1353. between nomadic perpetuated the relationship an ongoing societies, and sedentary groups that increased “sown” and “steppe” symbiosis of bolster their claim To in 1405. his death after the and his successors exploited Timur to rule, and knowledge of indigenous bureaucrats program. their cultural to execute craftsmen manipulated artistic were Regional traditions new hybrids that could into and transformed might and beneficence the ruler’s demonstrate to the nomadic elite as well as to multi- the under urban populations their control. cultural an reveal these works embodiments, As complex and social order. political structure evolving SPRING 2017 Understanding 40 Aesthetic and Interpretive of Islamic ArchitectureMonuments Roxburgh J. David to eleven an introduction offers The course and sites of monuments the Islamiciconic

Central Asia Central Roxburgh J. David the art examines The course and architecture and his (Tamerlane) Timur by sponsored 2016–2017 GRANTS TRAVEL AND RESEARCH student doctoral HAA/CMES , Collaço Gwendolyn Bodleian Library UK Oxford, de France The Bibliothèque nationale France Paris, student HAA doctoral , Hannah Hyden thethrough course intensive Summer Arabic StudiesMiddle Eastern Middle and Arab for Center at Beirut the American University (CAMES) Lebanon Beirut, student doctoral HAA/CMES , Schwerda Mira museums and Tabriz and Tehran in Research archives Iran Tabriz, and Tehran student doctoral HAA/CMES , Winter Meredyth on Lanna Workshop Knowledge Summer Weaving Columbia by co-sponsored and Dyeing, Weaving and Chiang the University of Leiden, University, Mai University Thailand Chiang Mai, 2016–2017 COURSES 2016 FALL History of Art 120N Pro-seminar and Architecture and Iran in Greater ArtTimurids of the AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 28 (“Wiley-Blackwell Companions Companions (“Wiley-Blackwell and Architecture The third 2017). September series, to Art History” by Gülru is edited publication multi-author titled A Persian The Arts Geometry: of Ornamental Similar and Complementary on Compendium Supplements to (Brill, Figures Interlocking September 2017). Muqarnas, two in In addition these books, to her essays articles in press: by Gülru also appeared and China: Images between Europe “Persianate Topkapı in the Diez and Manner’ ‘Frankish The in The Diez Albums: 1350-1450,” c. Albums, C. Weis, F. Gonella, J. eds. , and Contents Contexts Dialogues “Architectural and 2016); (Brill, Rauch Monumental Mediterranean: the Eastern Across Domed Sanctuaries in Empirethe Ottoman The ed., in Alina Payne Italy,” and Renaissance Volume to Companion the , (Wiley- Architecture and Baroque Renaissance I, 2017). Blackwell, to return forward much looking Gülru is very her AKPIA activitiesto teaching and resuming History of Artat the Harvard and Architecture abroad. year Department her rewarding after their proceedings: “The Aesthetics of Empire: of“The Aesthetics Empire: their proceedings: in the Construction and Commerce Politics, Arts, (Szigetvár Magnificence” of Sultan Süleyman’s on the Siege Conference Commemorative 1566: and and Süleyman the Magnificent’s of Szigetvár of Academy Hungarian , Death Miklós Zrinyi’s September of Pécs, Sciences and the University Connections: “Transregional and 2016); and of Early the Construction Architecture (The Arts of & Culture Modern Islamic Empires” R. K. India, in Mumbai, Mughal India Conference January 2017). Institute, Oriental Cama Gülru traveled the Mumbai conference, After for in the Deccan in preparation weeks three for her book project on architectural the connected and urban histories of the early modern Islamic with and Mughal), Safavid (Ottoman, empires During thisto close attention their neighbors. she and her husband study trip, private intensive History University Harvard Kafadar, Cemal (Prof. sites and landscapesDepartment) documented Hyderabad, Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, in Belgaum, The trip and Jaipur. Daulatabad, Aurangabad, highlight of herthe mostwas memorable sabbatical. spent with of was The rest the sabbatical long-term book projects thatthree completing One of these years. the past over five evolved held at an AKPIA conference from grew books Gülru co-edited which with in 2012, Harvard Global From Histories of Ornament: Alina Payne: book is aThe second 2016). (Princeton, to Local fifty of over collection monumental two-volume which she co-edited with essays, commissioned to Islamic Art A Companion Barry Flood: Finbarr Gülru Necipog˘lu Gülru Necipog˘lu is the Aga Khan Professor of is Khan Professor the Aga Gülru Necipog˘lu Islamic Art and of Khanthe Director the Aga at Harvard Islamic Architecture for Program based leave, on sabbatical Gülru was University. 2016-17. during year the academic in Istanbul, projects, and publication on research She worked fieldwork, for extensively while traveling She continued and meetings. conferences, working , Supplements editing Muqarnas and its Dr. long-distance with the new Managing Editor, Maria Metzler. began with board travels Gülru’s In June 2016, History Architectural meetings of the Palladio and of the Steering Vicenza, Institute in Award of Khan Architecture the Aga Committee by the Aga in November followed in Geneva, in Ceremony Architecture for Khan Awards Dubai. by invited the Association Gülru was 2016 In May and Culture on Architectural of Research at Istanbul lecture an evening Heritage to deliver Culture “Architectural titled University, Technical in of Sinan: and ofthe Age Decorum the Concept and Misinterpretations Today’s on Observations Gülru Practices.” Architectural Contradictory in June 2016 also invited theto deliver was in lecture the interdisciplinary opening keynote at the University conference Empires” “Eurasian in two other she delivered The lectures of Leiden. in will be published conferences international AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Faculty

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 29 Paulina Banas Paulina 2016-2017 Associates Post-Doctoral Paulina earned her BA and MA in art and MA her BA earned history Paulina and PhD IV-Sorbonne, Paris the Université from (SUNY) at York of New University the State from on orientalist focuses Her research Binghamton. and exchanges the material visual culture from Europe and Eastern Persia between Safavid century. nineteenth the through seventeenth the of undergraduate She has taught a variety and non-western art on western courses at and University, York New SUNY Binghamton, University. State Westfield on a book-length worked Paulina At the AKPIA, of the process that examines monograph and of nineteenth-century French production Islamic Cairo, featuring books British illustrated Egyptologist of the French example with the key and his two (1807-79), Émile Prisse d’Avennes album (1848) and namely Oriental publications, interests Paulina’s However, (1877). arabe L’art deal not albums and visual only with printed but decorative also with generally, more culture in her first article on this as represented arts, and the politics oftextiles identity“Iranian topic, A Journal of (Consortium: Europe” in Eastern also She was 2011). Inquiry, Crossdisciplinary to an essay the catalogue invited contribute to “The Fascination of the major exhibition Dialogue in European Persian of Persia: Art Art and Contemporary Seventeenth-Century by Museumthe Rietberg organized Teheran,” of ) in of the Collection the Museum Ziya¯ra¯tna¯ma (Harvard (Harvard Art Iran 19th Century in of the Image: The exhibition Mass.). Cambridge, Art Museums, Mary edited with McWilliams, jointly catalogue, photography, on lithography, of essays consists and assesses their various lacquer and painting, is a publication the second interactions; complex of study an album of Qajar artists’ monographic at by colleagues with contributions materials Artthe Harvard Museums and ten graduate will be published by Both volumes students. ArtYale Harvard Museums and distributed by Press. University in 2016-17Other studies that appeared include: Against Photography—An Zaatari: “Akram Image History of Annotated the Arab 5 (January 2017): Art 55, Forum Foundation,” Scroll 1433 Pilgrimage Yusuf’s “Sayyid 104; ( with Mounia Chekhab- Doha,” of Islamic Art, Desvergnes, and Amélie Couvrat Abudaya “Memorabilia 345–407; and Muqarnas 33 (2016): in The Diez Albums Revisited,” of Asia: Diez’s Julia ed. and Contents, Contexts Albums: Weis, Friederike Christoph Rauch, Gonnella, 52–73. 2016), Brill, and Julia Gonnella (Leiden: teaching in from leave During his sabbatical his book on art will complete David 2017-18, the from Herat Timurid in early and literature at SOAS which he delivered Lectures Yarshater in 2015. David J. Roxburgh J. David In the academic year 2015-16, David Roxburgh Roxburgh David 2015-16, In academic year the as Chair of began his the Departmenttenure of exciting an Itwas Artof History Architecture. and of new challenges and opportunitiesyear his popular He offered the Department. for Art in theTimurid and Architecture seminar on he co-taught the in the Spring, semester; Fall Pereda with Felipe Tutorial Excursion Sophomore a graduate Spain), and Benjamin Buchloh (to and epigraphy, seminar on of Islamic Monuments and course the lecture he participated In summer, the late . Architecture Hartung hosted by the Fondation in a workshop on Language in the Arts— Antibes, Bergman, a small group on MENA—comprising focusing and critics. curators, artists, of art historians, a plenary delivered David In the Fall/Winter, for Center at SUNY Binghamton’s lecture Studies and another and Renaissance Medieval für Kunstgeschichte, at Zentralinstitut the In the Munich. Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, de invited to speak at he was the College Spring, “Visual in the symposium on the Paris, France, and Global History during Modernthe Early Turn and at Artthe Seattle Museum in their Period,” Asian Art series. worked David Throughout year, the academic as publications related on two exhibition Both will be in print in fall and editor. contributor Technologies with the exhibition coinciding 2017, AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 30 Satoshi Kawamoto Satoshi Satoshi is a post-doctoral research fellow for for fellow research is a post-doctoral Satoshi of Science. Promotion the the Japan Society for on the architectural focuses His research and urban history of Ottoman dynasty inthe he received In 2013, the early modern period. Tokyo of the University from his PhD degree Study on the “A with his dissertation entitled which of Ottoman Palaces,” the Early Formation Tokyo of the University from published was The book primarily in 2016. in Japanese, Press, of the Ottoman development discusses spatial of and the courttransition architecture palatial before century, in the fifteenth ceremonial and the conquest of Constantinople and after Palace. Topkapi of construction a post- was Satoshi to Cambridge, coming Before ofForeign University Tokyo at researcher doctoral He is universities. Studies and taught at several in property ownership in early now interested modern Ottoman cities and is attempting to in English. works publish his previous Maryam Kamali Maryam Maryam is an AKPIA Research Associate at Associate Research is an AKPIA Maryam on the focuses Her research University. Harvard of the Medieval social history historiography and her PhD dissertation She defended Middle East. in Iran “Social Changes with University, Tehran at The Perspective during the Abbasid Caliphate: now a forthcoming Historiography,” of Persian Michigan Western the from monograph Press. University several has written and translated Maryam articles about in medieval the history of Iran journalsto scientific contributes She times. . and the Encyclopedia Iranica of universities among interested communication foster To and Eastern Middle scholars studying Medieval has established Maryam Asian history, Central History Medieval Iranian the interdisciplinary , website www.Iranianmedievalhistory.com The site includes in both English and Persian. sources. reliable from maps and texts photos, in Iran The Madrasa her talk on She presented and Baghdad under the Saljuqs with the Aga She has taught in April 2017. Khan Program Tufts in the Middle East at Women on courses and and Amherstthe course College University on the History of Modern Middle East at Boston University. in Switzerland (Axel Langer, ed., Scheidegger ed., Langer, (Axel in Switzerland articleThis deals with 2013). Zurich, and Spiess, exploring continue will the issues that Paulina and appropriation cultural such as in the future, of in the Eastern-European identity the context with the Middle East.encounter AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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o ¸¸c Colla Gwendolyn sub-royal Ottoman painting and costume Ottoman painting sub-royal albums. 2016-2017 Students Graduate of year her fourth Gwendolyn has completed History of Art for her PhD in the Joint Program Studies. Eastern and Middle and Architecture 2017 at History andthe Middle Eastern In May atof Chicago, the University Theory Conference Time “Crafting her paper on she will present in an based on the illustrations Dress,” through at Qajar Iran” from Drawings of Artists’ “Album This paper is a shortened ArtHarvard Museums. of to be published in the essay version the edited by David on this album, monograph Gwendolyn During the academic year, Roxburgh. courses Ed. Gen. for Fellow Teaching as a served Resources Visual on a session and conducted on Advanced Islamic Studies in a workshop for Gwendolyn in Islamic Studies. Methods Research and will the Sheldon Fellowship awarded was the EU and across spend traveling the next year on dissertation conducting research Turkey Elaheh Kheirandish Elaheh Kheirandish Elaheh is a historian of science (PhD, Harvard, Harvard, Elaheh is a historian of science (PhD, a specialty in sciences in Islamic with ‘91), include a Her publications two-volume lands. of Euclid’s Version dissertation (The Arabic as well as articles, Springer-Verlag), Optics, Her projects books. and forthcoming chapters, of traditions and Persian Arabic from range sciences to ofancient Greek the applications She technologies advancing to historical studies. departments at at several courses has offered at Harvard exhibits curated University, Harvard documentary produced Universities, and Brown and has lectured films and multi-media projects, have latest affiliations Elaheh’s internationally. The Department University: been with Harvard KhanThe Aga of History of Art and Architecture, The Davis and Islamic Architecture, for Program she studies; and Eurasian Russian for Center Cambridge University’s with is also affiliated Department of of History and Philosophy book is titled Baghdad Her upcoming Science. of Cities in an Age Two A Dialogue of and Isfahan: Tauris. I.B. Science, Enass Khansa Enass is a 2016-2017 at Harvard AKPIA Associate of She is the Andrewthe recipient University. (2015- Fellowship Mellon Postdoctoral W. Colegio Real University’s Harvard 2016) from which she joined through (RCC), Complutense The project of the multidisciplinary conservation Heritage Monument World Cathedral Santiago position, She has accepted a tenure-track (Spain). in the Departmentas an Assistant Professor at Languages the and Near-Eastern of Arabic of Beirut.American University and Islamic StudiesEnass holds a PhD in Arabic In her (2015). University Georgetown from and Necklace “The Rhetoricthe titled dissertation, of a monograph Enass presents of Restoration,” volume encyclopedic a twenty-five The Necklace, Córdoba. 10th century from adab compilation, and political and cultural, material She examines in al-Andalus under of restoration forms literary Her academic interests caliphate. the Umayyad knowledge, encyclopedic adab, include rhetoric, of conceptions historiography, readership, and Islamic art. exchange intercultural legitimacy, Enass held a post as a her academic work, With Washington, and Syria diplomat in Damascus, as a special adviser to the (2003-2011), D.C. and Media (2013-2015), at the Atlantic president, publication of editor as Arabic the the cultural 22 (2017). Raseef AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 32 at the 105th Annual Conference of College Art of College at Conference the 105th Annual York. in New (CAA) Association a module of has also completed Farshid history a global architectural offering lectures and (prepared teahouses of coffeehouses a project Zade), with Hessam Khorasani jointly Architectural (Global supported by GAHTC He has also Collaborative). Teaching History Image “The Lithographic titled written an essay in which will be published and its Audiences,” of the Technologies catalogue, the exhibition . Art Iran in 19th-Century Image: will Farshid Beginning in 2017-18 year, academic he will be teaching where join Oberlin College, of Islamic Artas Assistant and Professor Architecture. Farshid Emami Farshid Farshid is in the sixth year of the PhD program of is in program the PhD the sixth year Farshid in Historythe of Art at and Architecture completed He has recently University. Harvard “The New Isfahan: his dissertation titled, in and City Experience Urbanism, Architecture, his In December 2016, 1590-1722.” Iran, Safavid and the Urban Spaces, “Coffeehouses, article, Isfahan” in Safavid Sphere of a Public Formation 177-220. in Muqarnas 33 (2016): published was Farshid During the 2016-17 year, academic and venues at several his research presented he delivered 2016, 3, On November conferences. Spaces Public “Sensing the City: a lecture titled Isfahan,” in Safavid and Urban Experience as part Series at Harvard of AKPIA Lecture presented he 2016, 17, On November University. Libraries Royal “The Kitab-khana: a paper titled at heldthe Majlis gathering Isfahan,” of Safavid by Historians of Islamic Art (HIAA) Association with in conjunction the 50th Annual Meeting (MESA) of Middle East Studies Association he also conference, At the MESA in Boston. “The City and its Dual a paper titled presented and Urban Spaces in Sacred Mosques: Friday is now being revised The paper Isfahan.” Safavid and will appear as a chapter in Liminal Spaces Mosque and the Friday The Sacred to Urban: from he presented 2017, 18, on February Finally, City. of Safavid “ Palaces a paper entitled Genealogy (1629-66): and Meaning,” Isfahan Ezgi Dikici Ezgi Ezgi is a student in the joint PhD program Ezgi Studies and History of Artin Middle Eastern from her BA receiving After and Architecture. she earned MA in Istanbul, Sabancı University and CEU (Budapest), Sabancı, from degrees court and mutes dwarfs From University. Koç her studies have patronage, to architectural the sixteenth-century around revolved generally Ottoman elite culture. been researching has Ezgi In years, pastthe few Ottoman court eunuchs and their patronage She her dissertation. of art for and architecture published some of her findings in an article “The Making of Ottoman Court Eunuchs: titled and Ties, Family Paths, Recruitment Origins, in the journal Archivum ‘Domestic Production’” in a recently and more Ottomanicum in 2013, and Context: “Decorum article titled Turkish of Court Ottoman Patronage The Architectural (revised Modern Istanbul” Eunuchs in Early of a 2014 symposium paper) in Ekrem version Osmanlı Mimarlık Hâtırasına Hakkı Ayverdi’nin 2016). (Istanbul, Kültürü AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 33 Hannah Hyden Hannah is a first-year graduate student in the graduate Hannah is a first-year History of Art Department at Architecture and on sixteenth She focuses University. Harvard arts of Persian the century and seventeenth in culture in minority book with an interest completed She recently early modern Iran. in History of Arther MA the Courtauld from Institute of Art in the Special Option of Persian During her Visuality. Transcultural and Painting as an Iran she served time at the Courtauld, Assistant and Research Heritage Foundation assistant in and a library Scholar, Courtauld Hannah Image Libraries. & Conway Witt the in Islamic and Middle Eastern her MA received Jerusalem University, the Hebrew Studies from Studies and Spanish from in Liberal and her BA University. Sonoma State Jesse Howell Jesse is a PhD candidate at Harvard’s Center Center at Harvard’s Jesse is a PhD candidate Studies and Department Middle Eastern for Road: “The Ragusa His dissertation, of History. in Balkans the Ottoman Mobility and Encounter used by the strategies examines (1430-1700),” of movement patterns the Ottomans to control It also within beyond. and their borders dynamicsunique cross-cultural the investigates groups heterogeneous in the complex, found of Rumelia Ottoman that mountains the crossed a presented Jesse pastThis year by caravan. conference the Adriatic” “Rethinking paper at the He also returned at of Minnesota. University the Study to Advanced for Institute to Princeton’s “Digital Ottoman Platform” parttake in the he During break the winter annual workshop. on a undergraduates of Harvard led a group to Istanbul study excursion CMES-sponsored Aegean coast. Turkey’s and Bronwen Gulkis Bronwen AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Bronwen is a PhD candidate in is a PhD candidate the History of ArtBronwen on ofthe painting with a focus and Architecture, She spent the 2016-2017Mughal India. academic across at museums and libraries abroad year Her dissertation examines and India. Europe in circulating of the role the album format at identity the 17thknowledge and negotiating interests Her broader court. Mughal century images in South of foreign include the reception of Mughalthe and culture the material Asia, with Mary McWilliams She has worked court. Artat Harvard the Museum on the upcoming Art in of the Image: “Technologies exhibition at and also works the Harvard Iran,” 19th century slide Welch Arts on the Stuart Library Fine Cary collection. KhanAga of is three the recipient Bronwen and was in Islamic Art, Fellowships Graduate in 2014 to an AKPIA summer grant awarded coming Before Uzbekistan. to Samarkand, travel in History and a BA received Bronwen to Harvard, and Vermont, Art of Historythe University from Freer- at interned Institution’s the Smithsonian Museum of Metropolitan and Sackler galleries, Art.

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 34 Mira Xenia Schwerda Xenia Mira Mira is a third-year student in Harvard student in Harvard is a third-year Mira in Middle Eastern dual PhD program University’s HerStudies and History of Art and Architecture. on imagery of dissertation the Iranian focuses and the question of Revolution Constitutional changed politics in the late how photography David Her main adviser is Professor 19th century. first pursued archival Mira This year Roxburgh. J. Tabriz, Tehran, her dissertation in for research intern as a graduate Then she worked and Paris. of Islamic Art the Curator with Mary McWilliams, on the exhibition Artat Harvard the Museums, Art of in 19th Century the Image. “Technologies two panels on has organized Mira Iran.” history has given and and printing photography in lastthe few presentations conference several on“Death the article In 2015 she wrote years. Prison Portraiture Kirmani, Reza Mirza Display: in Qajar Executions and the Depiction of Public published in the Middle East Journal of Iran,” two This year, (Brill). and Communication Culture on non- and sub-of her articles (one focusing otherthe in the 19th century, photography royal love on depictions of permitted and prohibited 2017. will be published in fall in Qajar Iran) earned two MA Mira to Harvard, coming Before in Islamic Princeton University from degrees, Tübingen of the University and from Art History, and Middle Studies, Iranian in Modern History, Studies. Eastern Veronika Poier Veronika Veronika is a third-year graduate student of graduate is a third-year Veronika History of Art at Harvard and Architecture she joining the program, Before University. in Art a MagPhil completed History and in Romance and a MagPhil Architecture as well as a MA University, Vienna languages at on Ottoman History atin History a focus with also studied Veronika in Istanbul. Bilgi University interned and studies at Leiden Middle Eastern Washington. at Gallery of Artthe National in was Veronika Prior to Harvard, to coming in an intern the Islamic Art Museum in the she assisted where in Berlin, Pergamonmuseum “Love the exhibition Julia Gonnella in curating and Drugs in Indian Tobacco Wine, Pleasure: for paintings.” Damla Ozakay Damla is a first-year graduate student in graduate Damla is a first-year in program degree dual University’s Harvard Studies and History of ArtMiddle Eastern and the History from She holds a BA Architecture. in Istanbul. University Department of Bog˘aziçi the same in 2015 from MA her She received department a with on thesis the representation and of calligraphy practice the of calligraphers in early modern Ottoman biographical the Her thesis dictionaries of calligraphers. and early modern Ottoman reading addresses During her and book culture. writing practices her scholarly broaden to she wants PhD studies, social and the various and examine interests political dimensions of and Safavid Ottoman perspective. of writing in a comparative cultures AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 35 Özge Yıldız Özge Özge has completed her second year in year her second Özge has completed in History of Artthe PhD program and She holds two BA at Harvard. Architecture Departmentthe from of History of degrees, a brief and following Art at Istanbul University, from in arts career management, professional the Department of Archaeology and History her MA She received University. of Art at Koç the Department from degree of Archaeology She has University. and History of Art at Koç in the presentations conference several given at a graduate one of which was years, last few of in Ottoman studies at University workshop Oxford. Özge has spent her firstyears in the two proficiency her reading improving program She and Italian. Turkish, Ottoman in Arabic, and urbanism in architecture is interested in the early modern Muslim and European on with a focus empires, in in Istanbul and Edirne the seventeenth she will engage summer 2017, During century. and research in some pre-dissertation language studies in Istanbul. Meredyth Winter Meredyth Meredyth has just completed her fourth year ofMeredyth year has just her fourth completed at the Center at Harvard program the doctoral ArtHistoryof and Studies Eastern Middle and for Sheldon a Frederick under Traveling Architecture. she visited museumthe many Fellowship, and related Rayy with holdings from collections able to consult experts with She was materials. and conduct Petersburg Barcelona to St. from In the on her dissertation. research advanced her Meredyth will continue year upcoming 2017, in Fall Fellowship under a Loeb research in the Springto Cambridge returning before Art at she will be interning the Harvard where Museums. Abbey Stockstill Abbey evcˇenko Prize for her essay entitled “A Tale Tale “A entitled her essay for Prize evcˇenko ˇ AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Abbey is a sixth-year PhD candidate in candidate PhD the is a sixth-year Abbey Department of the History of Art & Architecture with concerned broadly Her work is at Harvard. as a bridge between Maghrib medieval the late and the Africa of Sub-Saharan the spheres and how the anthropological Mediterranean, dynamics of this bridge influenced urban Her dissertation in the region. development under of Marrakesh the development traces the Almohad dynasty in century, the twelfth of manipulation the dynasty’s examining andthe local landscape in its expansion of the city. reorganization William has spent Abbey the 2016-2017 as a year and Landscape Studies in Garden Fellow Tyler R. She DC. Washington, at Dumbarton in Oaks papers at the Historians of Islamicpresented and at Art Biennial Conference Association Annualthe Middle East Studies Association as part a lecture of Meeting and gave AKPIAthe the Margaret also received Abbey Series. Lecture B. S Masjid al-jamiʿ Marrakesh’s Mosques: Two of which will be published in a ,” al-Kutubiyya She will spend issue of Muqarnas. forthcoming her completing academic year the upcoming dissertation in Paris.

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 36 Cecily Pollard Cecily Cecily is the Program Administrator for the for Administrator is the Program Cecily Islamic Architecture for Khan Program Aga in Historythe of Art and Architecture Cecily University. Department at Harvard summa cum laude from BA her received majoring in Northeastern in Boston, University Artin 2002. Historyin Artconcentration a with Renaissance Art is Italian Her field of interest and she spent two undergraduate History, there returning before semesters in Florence in 2004 to work as a teaching assistant for in the development She has worked a year. departments of the School of the Museum of Museum Essex the Peabody Boston; Arts, Fine Graduate University and the Harvard of Salem; a candidate She is currently School of Design. Arts in Extension a Master of Liberal for at field of Museum Studies Harvard Studies, and expects to School, Extension University joined the AKPIA as Cecily in 2017. graduate 2013. in November Administrator Program Harvard Theological Harvard as an editor for worked and of Chicago Press, the University , Review Stackpole Books. Maria Metzler Staff AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Since June 2016, Maria has served as Managing Maria has served Since June 2016, Visual An Annual on the Muqarnas: for Editor She is currently World. of Cultures the Islamic of Muqarnas 34 andthe production overseeing of editing the Supplementsthe next volume of Knowledge: Treasures to Muqarnas series, Library of Ottoman Palace the An Inventory II His Sultan Bayezid by from Commissioned Atufi. Librarian art Maria studied and As an undergraduate, She earned a Masters degree English literature. of Chicago the University in Biblical Studies from Divinity School and a PhD in Ancient Near In University. Harvard Studies from Eastern “The Ark of dissertation, her she defended 2016, in and Divine Rage the Hebrew the Covenant In a distinction. awarded which was Bible,” a comparative takes Maria often her research, in light biblical literature considering approach, of Mesopotamian mythology ancient and Greek texts. contemporary as well as more tragedy articleHer most recent analyzes the prophetic 1 and 10 in Ezekiel creatures visions of fantastic between a Brazilian alongside an encounter as described in and a cockroach sculptress to G.H. According The Passion Clarice Lispector’s Maria on dream taught a course In spring 2017, Bible and ancient in the Hebrew interpretation she Previously, University. Near East at Harvard

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 37 Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths, held at and Its Aftermaths, Violence Large-Scale and Gwendolyn András April, In University. Kean The War: and “Art an exhibition, co-curated on display of Heritage Afghanistan,” Endangered atthe end ofthrough the academic year the Fine Arts Library.

András Riedlmayer András András has directed AKPIA’s Documentation Documentation AKPIA’s has directed András Arts since 1985. Library Fine at Harvard’s Center in Islamic artAs bibliographer and architecture, preserving, acquiring, for he is responsible and access to North reference and providing largest and most comprehensive America’s of on collection thethe visual cultures research mostWhat he enjoys is assisting Islamic world. with and visiting scholars their faculty, students, research. elected was András In the summer of 2016, of to of Directors the Islamicthe Board He also contributed Manuscript Association. to a content and other photographs an essay, “Targeting internet resource: interactive new, http://heritage.sense- History and Memory” of in the project went the fall live ; agency.com The European funded in part2016 and was by was András 2017, In February Commission. Harriman University’s by Columbia invited of about a lecture Institute to present the fate of the 1990s. wars heritage in the Balkan cultural an episode of for interviewed he was In March, hosted by Shireen Ottoman History Podcast, about the and Gwendolyn Collaço, Hamza history Islamic endowments of Ottoman-era also took part András in panel in the Balkans. of the award-winning discussions at screenings film The Destructiondocumentary of Memory AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AND ARCHITECTURE, ART OF OF HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Center Documentation at the Armenian Artat the Harvard Museums, on and at a workshop Museum of America,

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 38 typologies of nocturnal landscapes common intypologies of nocturnallandscapes common During and similar hot climates. the Peninsula, ask who uses we will event, this interdisciplinary what and public spaces, landscapes night-time peculiar activitiesto are the night and ultimately, was This event dark? after life how to design for Assistant Professor Doherty, by Gareth organized Granara, William and of Architecture Landscape for Center University of Director the Harvard Studies. Middle Eastern Program April 7 Friday, Studies & International Government for Center 1730 Level, Lower Rm 020, Building, South (CGIS), Cambridge St, Cambridge (CMES) Granara William address: Welcome Gareth Nocturnal Landscapes, Introduction: Doherty (GSD) Nocturnal Spaces Activities in Public I: Panel of the (University Ahmed Kanna Moderator: Pacific) and The Pitfalls Thought’: What I ‘This is Not Nocturnal Segregated of Kuwait’s Potentials March 8 March History An Architectural Dadaab: from “Learning Migration” of Forced Siddiqi Anooradha 21 March Work” “Current Tabassum Marina April 3 Sources, Istanbul 1922-1950: for Urban Atlas “An Methods and New Historiographies” Sibel Bozdogan 2016-2017 CONFERENCE Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Dark: After Peninsula in Spaces the Arabian Studies Middle Eastern for Center School of Design Graduate Harvard 2017 April 7-8, are public spaces Peninsula, In the Arabian and the darkness falls most used after often symposium explores This with it. temperatures AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA 2016-2017 ACTIVITIES KHAN PROGRAM LECTURES2016-2017 AGA November 14 November Tibet to Beijing and From Basics: “Rethinking Beyond” Zhang Ke 14 February “Lore” Jain Bijoy

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 39 GSD Publications New Geographies series: Geographies New Territory; Agency, is the journal of Design, by doctoral and produced edited, founded, Lab at in thecandidates Geographies the New of School Design. Graduate University Harvard for It is supported Foundation by the Graham Arts in Studies and the Fine the AgaAdvanced Khan Program. include: volumes Recent Danielby edited Island, 08: Geographies New 2016 November Pérez-Ramos; Daou and Pablo the geo 08 explores New Geographies in so and, philosophic notion of boundaries, the island master new limits for proposes doing, bolsters the agency of design in an metaphor, a and suggests the basis for world, entangled universalism. reinvigorated Panel IV: New Nocturnal New Landscapes IV: Panel Silvia Benedito (GSD) Moderator: Nocturnal and Landscapes Identities Dissociative (Perkins+Will, Velegrinis Steven in the Gulf, Dubai) Desert and Camps Mundane Manarahs: Al-Mishari (Associated Abdulatif , Neon Lights Partnership) Architects (X Esmaeil Farid Ahmed Al-Ali, of Night, Veils The Dubai) Architects, Mohsen remarks: and concluding Discussion, (GSD) Mostafavi at the Harvard Khan Program The Aga Sponsors: CMES Arabian School of Design, Graduate Studies Series Peninsula

AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA , Farah Al-Nakib (American University Al-Nakib (American Farah Landscape, of Kuwait) Dubai and Scenes from Mapping Nightscapes: University, (UAE Elsheshtawy Yasser Abu Dhabi, Al Ain) (Brandeis Menoret Pascal Riyadh Night Drive, University) Discussion 8 April Saturday, Graduate Harvard Gund Hall, Auditorium, Piper Cambridge 48 Quincy St, School of Design, Anita Berrizbeitia (GSD) Welcome: Doherty Gareth (GSD) Introduction: Darkness for Designing II: Panel (GSD) Tato Belinda Moderator: Joaquin Perez- Nasser Abulhasan, Dark Societies, and Madrid) Kuwait Architects, (AGi Goicoechea University) (Yale Reisz Todd Electric Schemes, University, (Qatar Anna Grichting Light Nights, Doha) Changing Nocturnal Landscapes in Unitedthe in Al Ain, Al Jahili Park of The Case Emirates: Arab Maha al-Dhaheri (Urban Planning Council, Abu Maha al-Dhaheri (Urban Planning Council, Dhabi) Discussion of the Night Narratives III: Panel (MIT) Nasser Rabbat Moderator: and Sounds of the Night, Narratives, Sights, New and filmmaker, Kidd (photographer Wilmot York) Dakkak Hussam Religion, and Light Time, Makkah: Riyadh) Kuwait, London, (Studio Bound, Instant Sharjah’s Stories from City: Space[Less] Cristiano Luchetti (American Modernity, of Sharjah) University Discussion

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 40 In the Middle of the Streams: Beyond Landscape Beyond In ofthe Middle Streams: the & Flows Design Architecture Mosbach Catherine Museums launched anIn 2015 Qatar the rehabilitation for competition international monumental complex—a flour mill of the city’s in a major located the Doha harbor—into facility a publicThis studio reimagined center. cultural landscape this partto transform of Doha Harbor atto reflect while new uses the same time to form Islamic culture from inspiration drawing public space for the basis of a new paradigm Qatar, site visit to Doha, A week-long Doha. for supported 2017 was by Khanin March the Aga Program. 2016-2017 COURSES 2016 FALL Beijing Metabolism, Hutong Zhang Ke courtyard- the Hutongs in Beijing, traditional system of urban dwelling and-alley that is the recently have most part essential of the city, at of the center been captured battleground the and conservation between development, the This studio investigated revitalization. site visit to A week-long system and its uses. supported in September 2016 was China, Beijing, by Khan Program. Aga the SPRING 2017 Cities Water Building Industries in African Adeyemi Kunlé the city of Durban toThis studio explored the challenges and opportunitiesexamine in by the impacts of urbanization presented context and environmental physical, the social, The studio visited continent. of the African Durban in the early phase of the research. and design phases, Throughout the research disciplines itto engaged advisors in various and establishguide the DESIMER research student with local organizations, relationships institutions and partners in South Africa. groups, in Africa, South site visit to Durban, A week-long supported 2017 was by Khanthe Aga February Program. AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 41 Sibel Bozdogan Sibel is Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design in Urban Planning Sibel is Lecturer architecture in degree and holds a professional Ankara, University, Technical Middle East from of the University (1976) and a PhD from Turkey She has taught architectural (1983). Pennsylvania history and at Rensselaer theory courses Institute (1986–1991),Polytechnic MIT (1991– (part-time University Harvard 1999) and the GSD, as She has also served the Director since 2000). Studies at the Boston Architectural of Liberal (2004–2006) Center teaches in and currently of Program Architecture the new Graduate She during spring semesters. Bilgi University histories of modern on transnational works the U.S., and urbanism in Europe, architecture with a and East, the Middle Mediterranean, She has published Turkey. focus on specific a has coauthored articles internationally, architect Sedad Hakki Turkish on the monograph an interdisciplinary and coedited Eldem (1987), National Modernity and Rethinking volume, Her Modernism and (1997). Turkey in Identity Culture Architectural Turkish Building: Nation Washington of (University in Republic the Early 2001) has won Alice Davisthe 2002 Press, of the Society of Architectural Award Hitchcock of Book Prize the Historians and the Koprulu one of She was Studies Association. Turkish 1910–2010:“Istanbul City, of the the curators Culture” and Architectural Built Environment 2010 in fall in Istanbul Bilgi University exhibition Modern Turkey: completed and has recently and in the South Asian Region the 20th Century the first of that books document the three His Urbanism. on Debates the 2004 Michigan in India since Architecture book, most recent As trustee in August published 2011. was 1990, Institute (UDRI)of the Urban Design Research Urban Knowledge Action for and Partners both based in Mumbai, (PUKAR), and Research as an activistto be engaged continues Rahul He has of the city. in civic and urban affairs the Khan Awards the Aga been a jury for member the James Prize, the Berkeley Architecture, for Urbanthe on the City, Stirling Memorial Lectures Award and Urban Futures the Audi Awards, Age (2010). Rahul Mehrotra Rahul , as well as other prominent Indian and as well as other prominent , international journals and books on architecture on architecture journals and books international and lectured has written Rahul and design. and conservation, on architecture, extensively and coauthored, He has written, urban planning. on Mumbai, of books repertoire edited a vast and its historic buildings, its urban history, The most public spaces and planning processes. an Imagesignificantwas Conserving of these based on The Fort Precinct; in Bombay Centre: historicthe this study and its recommendations, precinct a conservation declared was Fort area He has also in 1995 by government. the state of The Architecture entitled edited a volume Rahul is Professor of Urban Design and Planning is Professor Rahul chair of the Departmentand former of Urban He is also a Planning and Design at the GSD. member of of Harvard’s the steering committee as well as a practicing South Asia Initiative, RMA His practice, architect in Mumbai. founded ), (www.RMAarchitects.com Architects from of projects, a range has executed in 1990, of urban land and the masterthe recycling parts of Mumbai planning for to the design of and work social institutes, homes, art spaces, have projects These diverse India. places across multiple constituencies issues, engaged many design and interior from scales, and varying and conservation, to urban design, architecture work has been published in The firm’s planning. Domus, Review, Architectural Archiworld, Abitare, A+U and Arquitectura Design, Architectural Viva AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Faculty

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 42 engineer to hold postthis the government for quality ofthe designthat monitored watchdog He also throughout the United Kingdom. as one of 15 members of served for the Design of London Advisoryto Group London the Mayor on the Master Jury Hanif was (2007-2008). for of Khan Award the Aga the 2004 cycle for in as a project and served reviewer Architecture 2007 and 2010. Hanif Kara Hanif is a practicing Structural Engineer and Structural Hanif is a practicing Technology of Architectural in Practice Professor His School of Design Harvard. at the Graduate with the as being linked work is recognized He of design. areas and education research a Diploma Unit at the Architecture co-tutored 2000 to 2004 and was from London Association Technology of Architectural visiting Professor As Design 2007 to 2012. from Stockholm at KTH his of AKTII (est 1996), co-founder and Director in and interest approach ‘design-led’ particular and sustainable construction form, innovative allowed him have analysis methods complex such as Phaenoto work on pioneering projects at and MIST Library Peckham Science Centre, 250 has won over The practice Masdar City. including the RIBA design awards Stirling award in 2000 and London Library, the Peckham for in 2012 Cambridge the Sainsbury Laboratory, for as well as the RIBAthe UK for Prize Lubetkin career Hanif’s in 2010. at Shanghai Expo Pavilion engineeringthe structural beyond extends disciplines and led the UKto him receiving ACE in 2011 and Engineering Ambassador Award the firstbecoming for Engineer be a judge to He RIBA 2011. Stirling Prize the annual coveted is on or the board trustees of the Architecture Honorary an awarded and was Foundation Institute of British of the Royal Fellowship 2008 to 2011 he served From in 2007. Architects for (Commission CABE for as a commissioner firstthe and Builtthe Environment); Architecture , coauthored by Esra by Esra coauthored in History , Architectures (2012). Books Reaktion for Akcan AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 43 Gareth DohertyGareth Gareth is Assistant Professor of Landscape is Assistant Professor Gareth His Associate. and Senior Research Architecture on and the intersectionsteaching focus research and urbanism, ecology, between landscape, include publications Gareth’s anthropology. Urbanism edited with Mohsen Ecological which 2010), (Lars Müller Publishers, Mostafavi challenges urban practice to engage more government, environment, fully with the arts, and technology—ecology society, public health, editor is a founding Gareth sense. in a broad journal and editor- of the New Geographies Urbanisms of in-chief 3: of New Geographies University and Harvard GSD (Harvard Color the from supported by a grant 2011); Press, Studies the Advanced for Foundation Graham issues of explores the volume Arts, in the Fine and the design of space power, gender, identity, working on is currently Gareth color. through of anthropological integration the effective Recent methods with design and planning. on the notion of include research projects in Rio de Janeiro, urbanism in favelas informal of dissertation concepts on and his doctoral of whichthe latter in Bahrain, green the color Traveling Sheldon supportedwas by a Frederick In addition University. Harvard from Fellowship Gareth to Harvard, the Doctor of Design from his Master of Landscape Architecture received the in Urban Design from and Certificate his he received of Pennsylvania; University at Cornell University, and was an Adjunct and was University, at Cornell School of at the Graduate Professor Associate at Planning and Preservation in Architecture architecture researching University, Columbia closer and urban solutions to societal, that are needs. and economic environmental Kunlé Adeyemi Kunlé Kunlé is Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture; Critic in Architecture; Khan Design is Aga Kunlé urban researcher. designer and he is an architect, Floating ‘Makoko His notable work includes floating prototype an innovative School’, on located the lagoon heartstructure of Lagos, projectThis acclaimed is part of an Nigeria. Cities’ Water ‘African project – research extensive design architecture, an NLÉ, by developed being – in 2010, by Kunlé founded and urbanism practice cities and communities. on developing focusing improved II launched MFS a new, – NLÉ recently School at Floating this of Makoko iteration which it was for Venezia, la Biennale di years’ include projects Other Lion. the Silver awarded – an amphibious Media Center Radio Chicoco Nigeria, building in Port Harcourt, community ROCK – Lakefront the Museum of Aids in Africa, CDL Bank in Microfinance USA, Kiosk in Chicago, House Summer Nigeria and Serpentine Lagos, UK. in London, Gardens Kensington at Royal the OMA, for worked Kunlé NLÉ, founding Before and development he led the design, where such as projects the of high-profile execution the tower in China, Shenzhen Stock Exchange Transformer and Prada Library, National Qatar practice, Alongside his professional in Seoul. and thought speaker is an international Kunlé the 2014 AIA award for leader serving as a juror He is a Prize. and 2016 RIBA international holds an honorary winner and multiple award He has taught in Architecture. degree doctorate AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 44 been awarded to Zhang and his studio, and his studio, to Zhang been awarded Architecture for including Khan Award the Aga International 2016; shortlisted), (currently the 2011; Verona, Stone, in Architecture Award 2010; Record), (Architecture Vanguard Design Best (CAMA), Media Award China Architecture Chinese WA and 2008; Architect Prize, Young 2010 and Prize, Winning Award, Architecture his Master of Architecture Zhang received 2006. School of Design Graduate the Harvard from Bachelor ofin 1998 and his Master and in Beijing. University Tsinghua from Architecture Zhang Ke Zhang is Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture. Khan Design Critic in Architecture. Zhang is Aga his studio ZAO/ Zhang founded Born in 1970, With in 2001. “标准营造” standardarchitecture the past over works of realized a wide range as one of the studio has emerged the 15 years, among protagonists most critical and innovative of Chinese architects. the new generation by the studio include works the Novartis Recent the main pavilion in Shanghai, Building Campus a number of in Suzhou, Expo the Garden for projects transformation Hutong and courtyard buildings various and Beijing, of in center city the the In 2015, Tibet. imbedded in the landscape of in Berlin Aedes Architekturforum prestigious ZAO/ of works on the solo-exhibition a presented work has been Zhang’s standarchtarchitecture. the Biennale, Architecture Venice at the featured V&A in the in Frankfurt, the DAM Vienna, in MAK Domus, a+u, and published in Casabella, London, Record, and the Architectural Detail, MARK, amongst others. Institute at Zhang has lectured the KW Technische Art in Berlin, Contemporary for Católica Universidad Braunschweig, Universität Museum in and the Castelvecchio de Chile, at the Architecture speaker a key He was Verona. Milan Design in Rotterdam, 2.0 Symposium the CERASIE in Week, Helsinki Design Week, Architektur-Fenster- and the Forum Bologna, honors have Many in Nuremberg. Fassade masters and undergraduate degrees from degrees undergraduate masters and is a registered Gareth Dublin. College, University landscape architect in and has practiced the UK Chora/ with collaborations including and Ireland, Council. Bunschoten and Donegal County Raoul AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 45 Samaa Elimam Samaa is a PhD student at Harvard University Samaa is a PhD student at Harvard in betweenthe intersection interested As a and technology. preservation, aesthetics, Samaa designer in the US and East, the Middle from on projects that ranged collaborated an urban Angeles and Dubai, in Los residences largest on center Cairo’s the Nile alongside and a vision theto expand settlement, informal Mosque of Makkah. Grand Amin Alsaden 2016-2017 Students Graduate Amin is a PhD student. His dissertation willAmin is a PhD student. buildings in Baghdad on salient cultural focus the mid-twentieth and following around a period that witnessed unprecedented century, and artisticintellectual growth and multifaceted Amin holds a production. cultural novel a University, Master of Arts Harvard from Master in Architecture Post-Professional and a Bachelor in University, Princeton from DesignInterior and a Minor in Architecture He of Sharjah. the American University from and the firms in Europe at various practiced in and MVRDV OMA most recently Middle East, the Netherlands.

Catherine Mosbach Catherine Catherine is Design Critic in Landscape Catherine of Paris-based She is the founder Architecture. which she Paysagiste, design firm Mosbach as well as the magazine established in 1987, with which she co-founded Paysages Pages Vincent Jacotot and Pascale Claramunt, Marc include projects the Among her many Tricaud. park in Saone-et-Loire, archaeological Solutre the Botanical Garden Sluice of Saint-Denis, Walk AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Shan the other side in Quebec City, of Bordeaux, Exposition Horticultural Shui at the International Walking in Paris, Place de la Republic the in Xian, She Fort Saint Jean in Marseille. Mediterranean award of is d’argent the equerre the recipient the for Nishizawa Sejima and Ryue with Kazuyo Phase and in 2013, Museum Park Lens Louvre was Taichung park) in (Gateway Park Shift Award Concept in 2014 by the Iconic honored She Munich. German Design Council, category ofLegion of Honor the named an officer was of by the Republic President the proposed of Hollande in 2016 and is a graduate Francois Versailles. School of the Landscape Architecture

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 46 Natalia Escobar Escobar Natalia Natalia is a PhD student at Harvard GSAS. Her GSAS. is a PhD student at Harvard Natalia urban pre-modern on master thesis focused on historic cities and practices their conservation urban ensembles. on contemporary applications under Her work has been published the title The Medina, in Mediterranean the Fallacy Preservation the University from She holds an MArch 2013. MDes in Critical Conservation and an of Seville (Distinction)the GSD. from Tamer holds a Master of holds a Master Design Studies in Tamer and ecology landscape at Harvard’s urbanism, a Master School of (GSD), Design Graduate FH Anhalt, from of Landscape Architecture in GIS Certificate a Post-professional Germany; UK; University, Salford from and Environment of Faculty from and a Bachelor of Architecture as worked has previously Tamer Egypt. Arts, Fine and landscape architect and Egypt, in Germany at the Center researcher as an environmental and Natural of Cultural the Documentation for Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Heritage, Tamer Elshayal Tamer AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Tamer is an urbanist working at the Tamer critical geography, of urban intersection theory, and science and anthropology, environmental seeks research His current technology studies. of mega- spatialities the shifting to examine engineering in the Middle East thethrough politics of large and cultural study of spatial in He is interested projects. infrastructural engineering schemes reconfigure how large as territories and landscapes shape in they take and how mediums material and they discursive formations. socio-spatial engender contested member of is an associate the Spatial Tamer co- collaborative a research Lab, Ethnography Vyjayanthi and led by anthropologist founded member of Neil research He is also a Rao. Theory Lab at Harvard’s Urban Brenner’s on works in which he School of Design, Graduate and political dimensions of extractive the spatial and energy water and large-scale economies in of Norththe restructuring infrastructure as a research worked previously Tamer Africa. Sustainable for Program assistant in the Zofnass and energy on water focusing Infrastructure, reflecting Furthermore, in the US. infrastructure geography in critical interests his shared was he anthropology, and environmental toWhite summer grant the Penny awarded the investigating Egypt, conduct fieldwork in engineering coastal of landscapes infrastructural in Delta. the Nile works

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akpia 2016-2017 issue 13 47 Ghazal Jafari Jafari Ghazal Ghazal is a Doctor of Design candidate at is a Doctor of candidate Design Ghazal an of Op.N, is cofounder Ghazal GSD. Harvard office research design and interdisciplinary She has also Toronto. and based in Cambridge Toronto in with established design firms worked at Planning Alliance most recently Tehran, and Architects. and Regional Jacobé Huet Jacobé AGA KHAN PROGRAM, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD SCHOOL DESIGN, OF GRADUATE PROGRAM, KHAN AGA Jacobé is an Aga Khan doctoral fellow working fellow Khan doctoral is an Aga Jacobé and questions ofon modern architecture in the She is interested translation. cultural of Europeanvisual and historical connections styles of the Middlemodernism with vernacular East and Mediterranean.

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