1 man- y tar ed omplemen c t of the Aga Khan Aga t the of et y t al par al tion to self-sustaining devel- self-sustaining to tion ancement and social harmo- social ancement and tegr onomic and social development social and onomic er—ranging from social develop- social from er—ranging with distinc with f is an in an is ork institutions seek shar seek institutions ork or ec or is a dedica a is C elopment Network (AKDN),a family of family (AKDN),a Network elopment ee principles that guide their work.The that their guide principles ee v T onomic adv onomic dates to improve the welfare and prospects and welfare the improve to dates developing the in countries in people of Africa. and Asia in world,particularly expert- and activity of spheres their Though dif ise to development, economic ment, to at share least institutions culture—AKDN thr first long-term to opment thatcontribute can ec the to commitment a is second ny.The communities local of participation vigorous Finally,all efforts. development all in Netw change. positive for responsibility AK Aga The Highness His by created institutions Khan, AKTC physical are spaces public and Buildings past, societies, in culture of manifestations human represent present.They and quality the thatenhance can endeavours and self-understanding life, foster of opportuni- expand and values, community f ties future. the into De tional the study of o t ted al and educa ture, urbanism, visual cellence as the standard x aid. Both are rec- programs pan-Islamic cultural heritage. the cultur t f chitec o t AKPIA is dedica orld. espond continually strives continually to promote the visibility o needs of a diverse constituency drawn from all over the world. Along with the focus on improving the teaching of Islamic art and architecture and setting e in research,professional AKPIA also culture culture and conservation, in an effort to r ognized ognized today as leaders in the study of architecture and urbanism in the Islamic w Islamic ar AKPIA Established in 1979, the Aga Khan for Islamic Program Architecture at Massachusetts the and University Harvard are supported by Institute Technology of endowments from His The Highness Aga Khan that support instruction, research, and studen issue 3

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The Fall 2006 AKP MIT CONFERENCE THURSDAY, MARCH 15 “AN EVENING WITH...” “Analysis of Ceremonies in Ottoman MIT Lecture Series WORKSHOP, SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Miniatures: Perceptions and Representations” “Designing Development: Architecture, Zeynep Tarım Ertug,˘ Scholar and Lecturer, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Planning and the Taxonomies of Power in the Fine Arts Department, Istanbul University,

A Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Program G “Documentary Film Presentation: Global Arena” A Celebrating Popular Islam in India:Short K

H THURSDAY, APRIL 19

A Films on Devotional Images and Rituals of No further information is available at this N Indian Muslims” time. Please check the AKP at MIT website “Mirroring of Socio-Political Relations among P

R Different Religious Communities in Urban and O Yousuf Saeed, Documentary Film Maker, for future details. G Architectural Patterns: Bilad al-Sham between R New Delhi, India A

M the Sixth and Twelfth Centuries” issue 2006-2007 AKP Harvard Lecture

F Mattia Guidetti, Scholar, Department of 3 O MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 Series: A Forum for Islamic Art R Euro-Asian Studies, University of Venice, Italy,

2 I “Between Scholarship and Experience; & Architecture S

L Postdoctoral Fellow, akpia A The German and French Discourse on M Harvard Aga Khan Program akt c I Islamic Architecture” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 october 2006 C T A Lorraine Declety,Ecole pratique des hautes “Making a Royal History Book: The Case of H R C E études, Paris,France;Technische Universität, the Shahnama of Selim II” THURSDAY, APRIL 26 H A I G T Dresden, Germany Emine Fetvacı, Society of Fellows in the “A King in His Own Court: Arabo-Persian A E C

K Merchants and Material Culture of T Humanities, Stanford University H U A R MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 the Premodern Indian Ocean.” N E & T “Patterning Knowledge: Geometry and THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 Elizabeth Lambourn, Senior Research Fellow, R U Islamic Art” “Formal and Semantic Considerations in the Faculty of Art and Design, De Montfort S T University, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre

F Carol Bier, Research Associate, The Textile Analysis of Miniature Painting: The Case of O

R Museum, Berkeley, California the Frame” for South Asian Studies, University of London,

C Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Program U Rachel Milstein, Leo A. Mayer Chair, Muslim L T

U Art and Archaeology Department,The Hebrew For further information, please consult: R The AKP Harvard Lecture Series takes place E University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow, http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/ Harvard Aga Khan Program at Harvard University's Sackler Museum, lecturescurrent.htm 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Room 318.

All events are free and open to the public. Lectures are held on Thursdays at 5:30pm All events are on Mondays from 5:30 and are open to the public. For further 2 to 7:30pm in room MIT 3-133 information, contact the Aga Khan Program at Harvard University. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty Under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program at Harvard, Gülru and Sibel Bozdogan˘ organized an international symposium, Gülru Necipoglu˘ “Historiography and Ideology: Architectural David Roxburgh Heritage of the Lands of Rum,” held at the

A Gülru is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic American Academy of Arts and Sciences David J. Roxburgh is Professor in the G

A Art and the editor of Muqarnas and its May 11-13, 2006. The proceedings of the Department of History of Art and K

H Supplements. She spent the summer doing symposium, which she and Sibel are in the Architecture. From the fall of 2005 to the A

N research in Istanbul. Her most recent publica- process of editing, will be published as the spring semester of 2006, David presented lec- P

R tion is the volume she edited for Supplements next issue of Muqarnas (vol. 24, 2007). tures at the Seventh International Association O

G to Muqarnas: Sinan’s Autobiographies: A of Word and Image Studies, held in R A

M Critical Edition of Five Sixteenth-Century Texts During this academic year (2006-7) Gülru Philadelphia, and for the Department of Art issue

F (critical edition and translation by Howard will be delivering the Hadassah and Daniel History, University of Wisconsin, Madison; he 3 O R Crane and Esra Akın, 2006). The volume Khalili Memorial Lecture at SOAS on also delivered the Norma Jean Calderwood I S

L includes her preface, titled “Sources, Themes, December 6, 2006, a lecture titled Lecture at Harvard University Art Museums. akpia A M and Cultural Implications of Sinan’s “Architectural Dialogues across the Early During his sabbatical leave from teaching in akt c I october 2006 C Autobiographies.” Her book The Age of Sinan: T A Modern Mediterranean World: Central-Plan the fall of 2006, he managed to catch his H R C E Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire Domed Sanctuaries of the Popes and breath and also to complete some articles as H A I G

T received the Albert Hourani Book Award Sultans.” She will repeat this lecture at Brown well as shorter essays and book reviews. A E C

K honorable mention for 2005, and the 2006 University on February 23. Gülru is currently T H U A

R Fuat Koprülü Book Prize in Turkish Studies. writing the lead essay for the catalogue of a He completed his leave with a research trip N E &

T forthcoming exhibition at the Louvre in col- to India, where he traveled with Harvard R

U In March and April 2006, she delivered the laboration with the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, University doctoral candidates Chanchal S T keynote lectures in two symposia affiliated Paris. The exhibition, scheduled to run from Dadlani and Suzan Yalman. He made an F O with the exhibition “Bellini and the East,” held

R October 2007 through January 2008, and additional research trip to Egypt in late May

C at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, titled “Purs decors? Arts de l'Islam dans les through early June, visiting sites in Cairo and U L

T Boston, and the British Museum, London. She collections des arts décoratifs,” is being Sinai with Jennifer Pruitt (currently in Egypt U

R is currently turning her lecture into an article, curated by Remi Labrousse. on a Fulbright). The two research trips will E “The Italian Connection: Western Horizons inform David’s decisions about how to shape of Mehmed II’s Artistic Patronage,” to be a book on the broad topic of Islamic pilgrim- published in the symposium proceedings. age. In addition to a book-length study on pilgrimage, David’s future projects include a

volume co-authored with Renata Holod on the 3 > AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty Post-doctoral Fellows > Myron Bement Smith archive at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and an exhibition for the Zeynep Tarım Ertug˘ Mattia Guidetti Museum of Fine Art, Houston on the practice

A of calligraphy. Co-curated with Mary Zeynep graduated from the History Mattia received an M.A. in Oriental Languages G

A McWilliams, this exhibition will focus on the Department of Marmara University in 1984. from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice in 2002, K

H implements of writing. This July, David was She earned her Master’s degree in Ottoman and in the spring of 2006 he submitted his A

N honored by being appointed to a three–year history at Marmara University in 1987 with a Ph.D. thesis about the role of antiquity in P

R term as Reviews Editor for The Art Bulletin, thesis entitled “Matbah-ı Âmire Müessesesi ve Umayyad artistic and architectural expression. O

G and by the award of a Walter Channing Cabot 1105 - 1106 Muhasebe Defteri” [The Imperial Mattia took part in two international con- R A

M Fellowship from Harvard University. Kitchen and the Account Book Dated gresses: one at the University of Parma in issue

F 1105–1106]. In 1995, she received her Ph.D. from 2004, titled “Late Antiquity and the Middle 3 O R David is offering a new graduate seminar in the Istanbul University doctorate program in Ages in the Mediterranean Area,” and the I S

L the spring semester of 2007. Titled “From art history; her dissertation is entitled other,“Umayyad Legacies,” held in Damascus akpia A M Saracenic to Islamic: Exhibiting Islamic Art,” “Osmanlı Devletinde 16. yy. Cülus ve Cenaze at the Institut français du Proche-Orient in akt c I october 2006 C T A the course examines the history of temporary Törenleri” [Enthronement and Funeral 2006. He is editor of a forthcoming volume H R C E exhibitions and the formation and display of Ceremonies of the Ottoman State in the titled Syria, a multi-author overview about H A I G

T museum collections in North America, Europe, Sixteenth Century]. From 1987 to 1997, she Syrian history from antiquity to the present, A E C

K and the Middle East. taught a survey class in art history and since and he is preparing a monograph about late T H U A

R 1997 has been teaching the history of antiquity and early Islam, which will be an N E &

T Ottoman culture and Ottoman visual sources excerpt from his Ph.D. thesis. R

U at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, S T History Department, where she is an F O

R Associate Professor. C U L T U R E

4 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Post-doctoral Fellows Special Turkish Fellow

Elizabeth Lambourn Rachel Milstein Meral Ekincio¤lu˘

A Elizabeth is a historian of material and visual Born in Israel, Dr. Milstein studied at the Meral Ekincio¤lu˘ holds a degree in Architecture G

A culture specializing in Islamic South and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the from Istanbul Technical University,Turkey.She also K

H Southeast Asia. After earning a Ph.D. in Islamic Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern received her Master’s Degree in Architecture from A

N art and archaeology from the School of Oriental Studies. In 1980 she received a Ph.D. summa the same university,where she is currently a Ph.D. P

R and African Studies, University of London, and cum laude for her dissertation,“Religious Candidate in Architecture.Her research focuses on O

G receiving a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Painting of the Wailing Derwishes: Tarjome-i the position of the editor in architecture,particu- R A

M British Academy’s Society for South Asian Thewaqib, Pierpont-Morgan Library, Ms. larly the relationship of print culture to the issue

F Studies, she is now a Senior Research Fellow in M466.” Since 1980 Dr. Milstein has been dissemination of knowledge and its social back- 3 O R the Faculty of Art and Design at De Montfort teaching Islamic art at Hebrew University. ground in Turkish architecture.From 1999 to 2001 I S

L University, Leicester, UK, as well as Honorary Between 2001 and 2005 she served as a she was the editor of Arredamento Mımarlık,one akpia A M Research Associate at the Centre for Southeast Chairperson of the Department of Islamic of the leading architectural journals published in akt c I october 2006 C T A Asian Studies, SOAS. She is currently working on and Middle Eastern Studies and in 2006 was Turkey.She was also the managing editor of the H R C E a book about the material culture of Middle elected head of the Institute for Asian “Boyut Contemporary World Architecture and H A I G

T Eastern mercantile communities in the pre- and African Studies at Hebrew University. Turkish Series.”Between 2002 and 2004 she A E C

K modern Indian Ocean (scheduled for publica- Dr. Milstein specializes in the history of served as the managing editor of the architectural T H U A R tion in Routledge’s Indian Ocean Studies series). miniature painting. In 2005, she authored magazine, Portfolyo.In 2000,Ekincio¤lu˘ served N E &

T Recent publications include “The Formation of La Bible dans l’art islamique, which was as a member of the organizing committee of R

U the batu Aceh Tradition in Fifteenth Century published in Paris by Presses Universitaires “Architecture and Philosophy I,”a national sympo- S T Samudera-Pasai,”in E. Lambourn ed., Islam and de France. sium organized and sponsored by Istanbul F O

R Sumatra in the Pre-Modern Period, special issue Technical University and Istanbul University,

C Turkey.In 1996,her presentation about her U of Indonesia and the Malay World (2004), and L

T “Carving and Communities: Marble Carving for Master’s thesis and diploma project,focusing on a U

R Muslim Communities at Khambhat and around critical view of twentieth-century architecture and E the Indian Ocean Rim (Late Thirteenth–Mid post-structuralism,was nominated as the “Award Fifteenth Centuries CE),”Ars Orientalis, in press. Candidate”at the fifth National Architecture She has worked and lectured extensively in Awards organized by the Chamber of Architects of South and Southeast Asia and is looking for- Turkey.Ekincio¤lu˘ is a registered architect and an

ward to her fellowship immensely. active member of the Chamber of Architects of 5 Turkey,which is a member section of the International Union of Architects (UIA). AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Students

Ladan Akbarnia Chanchal Dadlani Zeynep Oguz˘

A Ladan Akbarnia is in her seventh year of the Chanchal spent the past year conducting Zeynep Oguz˘ received a B.A. from Middle East G

A Ph.D. Program in the History of Art and research in India and England for her disserta- Technical University, Ankara, and earned her K

H Architecture at Harvard. She specializes in the tion,“Twilight in Delhi? Architecture and M.A. from the Department of History of A

N art and architecture of Iran and Central Asia Urbanism in the Late Mughal Empire”The Architecture in the same university. Her P

R from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries dissertation examines the architecture of master’s thesis mapped multifunctional O

G and the relationship between Iran and China eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North Ottoman buildings of the T-type in terms R A

M during that time. With the help of a disserta- India, focusing on the city of Delhi during the of both geography and patronage profiles. issue

F tion completion grant, she is currently writing so-called twilight period of the Mughal Empire. While doing her M.A. she also worked part- 3 O R her thesis, entitled,“Khata’i: Cultural Memory time as an architect and for the first summer I S

L and the Creation of a Mongol Visual Idiom in In India, Chanchal’s work took her to architec- at the archaeological exploration of Sardis in akpia A M Iran and Central Asia (1256-1353).” In the last tural sites and archival collections in Delhi, Agra, Manisa, Turkey. At Harvard she plans to study akt c I october 2006 C T A year, she conducted dissertation research in Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, and Lucknow. In the architecture of the Middle East and the H R C E Turkey and Russia, co-curated the exhibition England, she conducted research in the Oriental Eastern Mediterranean from the Middle Ages H A I G

T “The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the and India Office Collections at the British Library, to the early modern period. A E C

K Islamic World” at the Sackler Museum at the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert T H U A R HUAM, and taught a survey of Islamic art and Museum, the Royal Geographic Society, and the N E &

T architecture for a second year at Smith University of Cambridge. In addition,“The Tablet R

U College. Ladan is looking forward to finishing and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World,” S T her degree. an exhibition she co-curated with Ladan Akbarnia, F O

R opened at the Sackler Museum, Harvard

C University, in February 2006. Chanchal was the U L

T recipient of a Frederick Sheldon Traveling U

R Fellowship during the 2005–6 academic year,and E received grants from the Aga Khan Program and the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University to continue her research through the summer.She was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays DDRA

Fellowship for 2006-7 to complete her disserta- 6 tion research in India, England, and France. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Students

Jennifer Pruitt Ünver Rüstem Yasmine Al-Saleh

A Jennifer has spent the past year on a Fulbright Ünver Rüstem has a B.A. and an M.A. in art Thanks to the Aga Khan Fund, Yasmine Al- G

A IIE grant in Cairo, where she has been study- history, both from the School of Oriental and Saleh spent the past summer at the Harvard K

H ing Arabic and visiting Islamic and Coptic African Studies and University College, London. Koç Intensive Ottoman and Turkish Summer A

N architectural sites as part of her research on His focus was on art and architecture of the School in Turkey. Entering her third year in the P

R Fatimid visual culture. Jennifer’s dissertation Italian Renaissance and the Islamic Middle doctoral program, Yasmine looks forward to O

G will investigate the arts of Egypt in the late East. His M.A. dissertation was on the importa- gaining experience as a teaching fellow in the R A

M tenth/early eleventh century, with a focus on tion of Ottoman tombstones into Cyprus, History of Art and Architecture Department. issue

F interactions between the court and the urban research for which involved numerous visits to She also plans to continue working on her 3 O R populations. She has had the opportunity to cemeteries both on the island and in Turkey Turkish and Ottoman Turkish while preparing I S

L give two talks while in Egypt. The first, at the during the summer of 2004. He also worked as for her general examinations. Yasmine plans akpia A M American Cultural Center in Alexandria, was a teaching assistant at the School of Oriental to work on Ottoman devotional literature and akt c I october 2006 C T A entitled “Fatimid Architecture in al-Qahira,” and African Studies, concentrating on Islamic its intersection with the arts. She received her H R C E and the second, at the American Research manuscripts and artistic interactions between B.A. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in H A I G

T Center of Egypt (ARCE) in Cairo was entitled Europe and the Middle East. His aim at Harvard 1996, and earned her M.A. in art history, with a A E C

K “A Tale of Two Cities: Locating the Courtly and is to expand his knowledge and understanding focus in Islamic material and visual culture, T H U A R the Urban in Fatimid Visual Culture.” In addi- of Islamic art, and eventually to specialize in from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. N E &

T tion to her research, some highlights from the provincial Ottoman architecture. He looks for- R

U past year included visits to the Aga Khan ward to being an enthusiastic member of the S T Trust’s remarkable projects in Cairo, hosting Department of History of Art and Architecture! F O

R other AKPIA members visiting Cairo, and short C

U trips to Tunisia and Dubai. Jennifer will contin- L

T ue her time abroad in the upcoming year. U R E

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

Alexis Sornin Suzan Yalman

A Alexis’ dissertation title is “Architectural Suzan is currently in Turkey, conducting G

A Culture in Early Modern India (1526–1857): research on her dissertation,“A Period of K

H The Building Workshop of the Kachawaha Transformation: Religion, Urbanism, and A

N Court of Amber and Jaipur.” Alexis studied Identity in the Architectural Patronage of P

R Oriental Languages and Art History in Paris Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad (r. 1220–37).” As a O

G before working for a few years in South Asia recipient of the Archaeological Institute of R A

M and the Middle East. He is currently serving America’s Olivia James Traveling Fellowship for issue

F as interim head of the Study Centre and the 2006-7 academic year, she will remain 3 O R Library Historiographer at the Canadian based in Istanbul, close to manuscript collec- I S

L Centre for Architecture while completing his tions in the Topkapı Museum and Süleymaniye akpia A M Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art Libraries and will travel to Anatolia to access akt c I october 2006 C T A and Architecture. the General Waqf Ministry Archives (Vakıflar H R C E Genel Müdürlügü)˘ in Ankara and to survey H A I G

T Seljuk architecture including archaeological A E C

K sites such as Alaeddin’s palaces (Kubadabad, T H U A

R Keykubadiye, and Alanya). Thanks to her grant, N E &

T Suzan also plans to travel to Sicily in order R

U to compare the Anatolian palaces to the S T Norman palace in Palermo, a rare example of F O a medieval palace combining Islamic and R

C Christian imagery. U L T U R E

8 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Sta≠MUQARNAS The Aga Khan Program at Harvard publishes scholarly works on the history of Islamic art and architecture. The program sponsors Julia Bailey Rich Burns publication of the respected scholarly journal, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of

A Julia Bailey has been Managing Editor of Rich has recently replaced Ruth MacQuiddy as the Islamic World, a yearly volume of articles G

A Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Program Coordinator and Research on art and architectural history edited by K

H the Islamic World since 2002. She received her Assistant of the Aga Khan Program at Professor Gülru Necipoglu.˘ Editions of A

N M.A. in art history from the University of Harvard. Rich oversees all operations of the Muqarnas are complemented by Supplements P

R Massachusetts, Amherst, and was enrolled in program, including the lecture series and to Muqarnas: Studies and Sources on Islamic O

G the Ph.D. program in Fine Arts at Harvard postdoctoral fellowships. He also assists the Art and Architecture, which focus on textual R A

M before becoming Assistant Curator of Islamic Program Director, Gülru Necipo¤lu,˘ with primary sources for visual culture. Julia Bailey, issue

F and Later Indian Art at the Arthur M. Sackler research towards her lectures, classes, and Managing Editor, has recently completed 3 O R Museum, Cambridge, and then Assistant publications. Rich comes from the Human Muqarnas 23 (forthcoming November 2006), I S

L Curator in the Asian and Textile Departments Resources Department at the Faculty of Arts which contains thirteen articles on architec- akpia A M of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. and Sciences at Harvard. He is actively ture, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and visual akt c I october 2006 C T A researching and developing his interests in imagery in textual sources. The Supplements H R C E In 2005–6 Julia shepherded into print both global politics and American foreign policy as volume Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five H A I G

T Muqarnas 22 and the eleventh volume of the an ALM degree candidate in government at Sixteenth-Century Texts, with introductory A E C

K series Supplements to Muqarnas: Sinan’s the Harvard Extension School. notes, critical editions, and translations by T H U A R Autobiographies: A Critical Edition of Five Howard Crane and Esra Akin, edited with a N E &

T Sixteenth-Century Texts by Howard Crane and preface by Gülru Necipoglu,˘ came out in 2006. R

U Esra Akın, with a preface by Gülru Necipo¤lu.˘ Both volumes are published by Brill and are S T Muqarnas 23 is forthcoming in November available from the publisher. F O

R 2006. Julia’s interests also include carpets C

U and textiles of the Islamic world; she is a L

T contributing editor of Halı magazine and a U

R member of the advisory council of the Textile E Museum, Washington, D.C.

9 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKP Harvard Librarians see http://www.sense-agency.com/en/ research resources and assisting the stream.php?sta=3&pid=7753&kat=11] students, faculty and visiting scholars who use those resources for the study of the András J. Riedlmayer In April 2006, Andras was invited to speak art and architecture of the Islamic world. at Princeton University; his talk was

A Andras is the Bibliographer in Islamic Art entitled:“‘Bigger, better and more Islamic’: Andras is a member of the board, Turkish G

A and Architecture, at the Documentation Saudi money, Wahhabi da’wa and the threat Studies Association; Co-founder, Bosnian K

H Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic to Islam’s architectural heritage.” Manuscripts Ingathering Project; A

N Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library. Co-founder, International Justice Watch P

R Andras is a specialist in the history and In August 2006, Andras participated on a (JUSTWATCH-L); and, a Member of the edito- O

G culture of the Balkans. He has spent much panel at the annual meeting of the Society rial board of H-TURK since its foundation. R A

M of the past decade documenting the of American Archivists, presenting on “Yizkor issue

F destruction of archives, libraries and other Books, Weblogs and Ethnic Cleansing: email: [email protected] 3 O R cultural heritage during the wars in Grassroots Documentation and New tel: 617-495-3372 I S

L Bosnia- Herzegovina (1992-1995) and Technologies.” akpia A M Kosovo (1998- 1999). http://www.archivists.org/conference/dc200 akt c I october 2006 C T A 6/dc2006prog-Session.asp?event=1710 H R C E In November 2005, Andras was elected H A I G

T president of the Turkish Studies Association, Andras has recently just returned from A E C

K http://www.h-net.org/~thetsa/ the leading Australia, where he presented lectures at the T H U A

R academic organization in Turkish and Faculty of Architecture of the University of N E &

T Ottoman studies. Sydney and at the Faculty of the Built R

U Environment of the University of New South S T In March 2006, Andras testified as an expert Wales. His talks were about regional diversity F O

R witness before the World Court in Islamic architectural traditions and about

C (http://www.icj-cij.org) in the genocide case the architectural heritage of Islam in U L

T brought by Bosnia-Herzegovina against southeastern Europe. U

R Serbia-Montenegro. His testimony concerned E the destruction of historic architecture, Of course, the above lists only events that libraries and other cultural heritage during have taken Andras far from Harvard's Fine the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. [For a brief Arts Library and the AKP Documentation account and photo, Center. The latter is in fact where he spends

most of his days, helping to build world-class 10 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKPIA Harvard Librarians Sharon has her BA and MA in Art History, and This fall, Sharon will present,“A Passage to is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate India: Urban Change in Alexandria and Cairo Program for History and Theory of Art and in the 15th and 19th Centuries," co-authored Sharon Smith Architecture at Binghamton University. In with Cristina Pallini, PhD, Politecnico di addition, she has attended institutes in Milano, at The 12th International Conference of

A Since joining the Aga Khan Program for Florence, Italy, and Monterey, California. the International Planning History Society G

A Islamic Architecture at Harvard University in Following a brief (re)visit to some Florentine (IPHS): Cross national transfer of planning ideas K

H August 2003, Sharon has been responsible for archives earlier this year, Sharon is continuing and local identity, in New Delhi, India. A

N researching, establishing authority records, to work on her dissertation entitled, Planned P

R and cataloguing the approximately 100,000 Grandeur: A Comparative Study of Urban Sharon is available in the Documentation O

G slides that constitute the program’s collection Expansion in Early Modern Italy and Mamluk Center of the Aga Khan Program for R A

M to date, encompassing all aspects of Islamic Egypt, in which she explores a similar trajecto- Islamic Architecture, Fine Arts Library, issue

F art and architecture. A primary goal of her ry in cultural milieus through an examination Harvard University. 3 O R project is the digitization of the collection, of the conscious redefinition of urban space I S

L with the incorporation of all images and data during the late fifteenth century. email: [email protected] akpia A M into Harvard University Libraries’ public cata- tel: 617-495-3372 akt c I october 2006 C T A log of visual materials, VIA (available at At Binghamton University, Sharon developed H R C E http://lib.harvard.edu/). Over the course the and taught courses in Persian art and architec- H A I G

T project, Sharon’s work has covered a vast ture; Istanbul before and after the Ottoman A E C

K amount of material; for example, Islamic conquest; Byzantium and the Mediterranean T H U A

R architecture in Alexandria, Umayyad Qusur, world; and Islamic painting. Additionally, she N E &

T and the Dome of the Rock, as well as portable has guest lectured on these, and other topics in R

U objects from throughout the Muslim world, Middle Eastern art and architecture, at several S T and various illuminated manuscripts, most universities and colleges. F O

R notably the Tahmasp Shahnama. In addition

C For the post-9/11 initiative on Arab Culture U to her catalog work, Sharon helps faculty, stu- L

T dents, visiting scholars, and anyone else seek- and Civilization, sponsored by the National U

R ing information in her field of study. During Institute for Technology and Liberal Education E the past year, in collaboration with Jeff Spurr, (NITLE) with funds from the Andrew W. she edited and revised the Harvard College Mellon Foundation, Sharon served as content Library’s Islamic Classification System consultant and contributor for Arab art and (http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/finearts/isla architecture (see http://arabworld.nitle.org).

micclass/index.html). 11 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKPIA Harvard Librarians Of many photograph acquisitions, the most 5. Acquisition of an early and rare personal notable included: memoir of travel in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1856 illustrated with Jeffrey B. Spurr 1. Donation of important and rare photographs salt prints taken by the author. of Mecca, Madina, and Damascus by Harvard

A Jeff Spurr was again very active during the Prof. emeritus James Ackerman. 6. Acquisition of the important photographically G

A period 2005-2006. Silver & Shawls: India, illustrated book, Architecture at Ahmedabad, K

H Europe, and the Colonial Art Market, the 2. Donation of nearly 2,000 photographs and 1866, by Hope and Fergusaon. A

N exhibit reported upon in the last newsletter, negatives, largely of Central Asia, P

R ultimately involved approximately 30 formal, Afghanistan, and Iran, taken in the 1940s and 7. Acquisition of a rare group of 18 albumen sil- O

G semi-formal, and informal gallery talks, plus a 1950s by Harvard Prof. emeritus Richard Frye. ver prints representing Alexandria before and R A

M special, hands-on session dedicated to shawls after the infamous British naval bombard- issue

F not on exhibit. 3. Donation of a significant group of albumen ment of July 11, 1882, most of them showing 3 O R silver prints from the 1860s and 1870s, the extraordinary damage to the city, and I S

L As if that were not sufficient for one year, he particularly of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and taken by Pascal Sébah. akpia A M took on the task of curating Unusual and Egypt, most notably a wonderful set of large akt c I october 2006 C T A Overlooked: Antique Textiles from Central Asia, format photographs of Egypt by Antonio Jeff continued to develop finding aids for the H R C E at ACOR (American Conference on Oriental Beato, and a very fine set of photographs of scores of special collections, any of which that H A I G

T Rugs) 8, in Boston, 20-22 April 2006, and wrote Palestine and Lebanon by Maison Bonfils are completed being available as attachments A E C

K the accompanying 44-page handout. This show from its earliest period. for the asking. The most recent of these T H U A

R comprised 140 textiles in many media, and describes an album comprising 159 historical N E &

T from many traditions, emphasizing more 4. After a correspondence lasting nearly five postcards, mainly from the early years of the R

U obscure ones than have been traditionally years, the acquisition on long term loan 20th c. documenting Oran, Algeria, and its S T privileged in exhibits on the textile arts of that with possibility of gift of a magnificent and immediate vicinity, accompanied by 5 photo- F O

R region. It was mounted on 33 temporary walls very rare 19th c. Persian photo album created graphs, and two multi-print panoramic photo-

C in the Imperial Ballroom of the Park Plaza by Ali Khan Vali, a Qajar grandee and provin- graphs of the city. It joins a very similar album U L

T Hotel only for the duration the conference, cial governor in NW Persia during the 1870s of postcard proofs for Fez, Morocco. Such U

R but will eventually become a virtual exhibit and 1880s, containing no fewer than 1,420 albums are useful for the documentation of E on the Internet. photographs documenting his travels during the early modern city and its buildings. He is his governorate. also engaged in creating group records for these special collections on VIA (Visual Information Access), Harvard’s growing union

catalogue for its many collections housing 12

visual materials of all sorts. > AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AKPIA Harvard Librarians > With the increasing planning for the move out 4. “The Status and Plight of Iraqi Libraries”, the dedicated to the status of Iraqi libraries, of the Fogg Art Museum, necessitated by its at the symposium, Learning in a Time of War, Indispensable yet Vulnerable:The Library in impending comprehensive renovation and sponsored by Books Building Bridges, Dangerous Times. Finally, Jeff has continued his expansion ªcommencing in June 2008), Jeff has Northampton, MA, 29 November 2005 work with ArchNet, particularly in terms of undertaken efforts to insure that all of the facilitating access to Harvard’s collections for A G

A photographic collections are properly housed in 5. “Issues addressed in my exhibit: Unusual and content augmentation, in soliciting permis- K

H archival boxes or heavy-duty binders, as well Overlooked: Antique Textiles from Central sions from extra-Harvard sources of images, A

N as a comprehensive space study of all photo- Asia”, ACOR 8 (American Conference on and in any other way that his advice and in any

P graphic materials related to the Islamic World Oriental Rugs), Boston 20 April 2006 other way that his advice has proved useful. R O

G & Middle East. R

A 6. “From Scholars to Missionaries:The Origins, email: [email protected] M issue Papers presented and lectures given included History and Organization of Photograph tel: 617-495-3372 F 3 O R Collections Documenting the Middle East I S 1. “What Occasioned my Report on the status of at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library”, an updated L akpia A M Iraqi libraries and archives, Indispensible yet version presented at the Library of

akt c I october 2006 C Vulnerable:The Library in Dangerous Times”, Congress 3 August 2006 T A H R at Simmons Graduate Schoole of Library and C E H A Information Science, 12 September 2005 7. “Persia 1897-1899”, Hali 148, I G T A E September-October 2006, pp. 62-6 C K T H U 2. “Betrayal in the Academy: José Torres and A R N E Book Theft at Harvard”, Declared Lost: Jeff has continued his formal activities in & T

R Recovering Stolen Books, SAFE/Boston Public relation to the Harvard University Art U S

T Library Symposium, 29 September 2005 Museums,The Textile Museum, and The F

O Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the latter case R

C 3. “The Allure of Luxury:The Kashmir Shawl in particularly involving the development of their U

L Persia”, sponsored by the Aga Khan Program African textile collections. He has also contin- T U

R for Islamic Architecture, Harvard, 5 November ued his involvement in the Harvard Committee E 2005, repeated for the Hajji Babbas, New York for Iraqi Libraries, although this diminished in City, 19 May 2006 intensity during the course of the year. He is presently preparing his update for his report on

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Faculty Visiting Fellow London. This summer, he delivered a lecture called “Beirut, by Law” at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He will be part of a conference Hashim Sarkis about the reconstruction of Beirut to be held Aziza Chaouni this fall at the Forum for Urban Design in New

A Hashim Sarkis is the Aga Khan Professor of York. He will also be giving a paper at a confer- Aziza Chaouni was born and raised in G

A Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in ence on Constantinos Doxiadis in Athens in Morocco. She obtained a Bachelor of Science K

H Muslim Societies. During the fall semester, December. Professionally, his office is involved in Civil Engineering summa cum laude from A

N Hashim is teaching “Constructing Vision, A in urban design and planning projects in the Columbia University. She then attended the P

R History and Theory of Optical Applications in Arabian Gulf and the Middle East. The office Harvard Graduate School of Design, where O

G Design,” and “New Geographies,” the first in a has also recently completed the preliminary she graduated with Distinction in the March I R A

M series of seminars and studios on an emerg- designs for a clubhouse and a summer resort program. Her thesis,“Hybrid Urban Sutures: issue

F ing geographic paradigm in design. in Lebanon and a restaurant addition in Filling the Gaps in the Medina of Fez,” pro- 3 O R Publications include several for the program, Cambridge. The office has been selected for posed a new typology of interventions in I S

L as well as,“A Society of Forms: On the Recent several invited competitions and placed world heritage sites, one that integrates akpia A M work of VJAA,” the introduction to a mono- second in a competition for an engineering public spaces and infrastructure. Aziza was akt c I october 2006 C T A graph on Vincent James published by laboratories building at the American awarded several prizes while at the GSD, H R C E Princeton Architectural Press. With Eric University of Beirut. including the Renzo Piano Building Workshop H A I G

T Mumford, he is also co-editing Jose Luis Sert, Scholarship, the Penny White Scholarship, the A E C

K the Architect of Urban Design, a book on the Hashim recently contributed an article in The American Institute of Architects Certificate of T H U A

R 1953–1968 period in the professional and Daily Star, a Lebanon newspaper, entitled Merit, and the Appleton Traveling Fellowship. N E &

T academic career of the Catalan architect and “Rebuilding Lebanon: the human dimension” During her year-long Appleton Fellowship, R

U former dean at the Harvard Graduate School Aziza researched ecological models of tourism S T of Design. The book will be published by Yale in the Middle East/North Africa region. Aziza F O

R University Press. has worked in several offices in Morocco,

C Europe, Canada, and the US, such as S&Z U L

T This past year Hashim gave a lecture at Architects; Built; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; U

R Istanbul Technical University as part of the and Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Aziza E AKTC Fora Series. He also gave a paper titled is also head of the research board of “Intensive Edges, Open Spaces” at the DOCO.MO.MO Maroc, a chapter of an American University of Beirut, in a conference international organization that seeks the “The Affluent City,” and was part of the preservation of the modern heritage.

“Urban Age” conference that took place in Her research on the late Moroccan architect 14 > AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Visiting Fellow Affiliated Students > Jean-Francois Zevaco was published in DOCO.MO.MO journal and Architecture du Maroc. Currently she is a Research and Gareth Doherty Rania Ghosn Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate

A School of Design, where she is collaborating in Since 2005, Gareth has been a doctoral Rania received her Bachelor in Architecture G

A the production of a seminar on Oasis tourism. student at the Graduate School of Design. degree from the American University of Beirut K

H Her research will focus on Morocco’s tourist Originally from Ireland, Gareth previously (AUB) in 2000. Benefiting from a British A

N landscape and infrastructure. studied at University College Dublin (B.Agr.Sc. Council Chevening scholarship, she further P

R and M.Agr.Sc. in Landscape Studies) and the pursued her interests in the relations of space, O

G University of Pennsylvania (M.L.A. and capital, and power and completed her M.Sc. R A

M Nadia Al-Hasanni Certificate in Urban Design). He has worked in “Modernity, Space, and Place” at the issue

F Visiting Fellow with CHORA architecture and urbanism in University College London (UCL) in 2003. She 3 O R London since 2000 and has taught design has been engaged in several multidisciplinary I S

L studios and workshops and has lectured research projects and workshops concerned akpia A M internationally. His research focuses on with ethnographies of low-income informal akt c I october 2006 C T A contemporary landscape and urbanism neighbourhoods of Beirut, the role of a lead- H R C E in Bahrain. ing Arab engineering consulting firm in “Third H A I G

T World urban development,” the iconography A E C

K of Lebanese political parties during the T H U A

R Lebanese Civil War, and the Syrian elites’ N E &

T practices and representations of Beirut in the R

U wake of socialist changes in Syria. Along with S T research, her enthusiasm and commitment F O

R have been devoted to academic instruction

C and particularly to the architectural design U L

T studio as a site from which to call upon the U

R empowering potential of representation. She E has repeatedly taught basic and advanced studio courses at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and at the Lebanese American University (LAU).

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Affiliated Students Staff >

Stephen J. Ramos Neyran Turan Maria Moran

A Stephen is a Doctor of Design candidate Neyran Turan is an architect and a current Maria Moran joined Harvard University in G

A researching the impact of new global doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate 1992 as a staff assistant in the University K

H infrastructure on the physical form of cities. School of Design. She received her B. Arch. Development Office. She joined the Graduate A

N Stephen is trained as an urban planner, and degree from Istanbul Technical University, School of Design in 1993 as a staff assistant in P

R his first year at the Graduate School of Design Turkey and holds a Master’s degree from Yale the Office of the Dean and now serves both as O

G included a Teaching Fellowship in the spring University School of Architecture. Her research administrative assistant to Professor Peter G. R A

M of 2006 for Professor Hashim Sarkis’s course at Yale examined the relationship between Rowe and as program coordinator for the Aga issue

F “Developing Worlds: Planning and Design in global networks and urbanism in contempo- Khan Program within the Design School. 3 O R the Middle East and Latin America After rary culture. Turan has taught at Harvard I S

L WWII”; co-authorship of the article “Dubai: Design School, Yale School of Architecture, akpia A M Port as Prototype” for the Neutra. Revista de Boston Architecture College, and Istanbul akt c I october 2006 C T A Arquitectura of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Technical University. Her work is published in H R C E Andalucía (forthcoming); authorship of the several journals, including Thresholds and H A I G

T article “Superlative Blasé: Locating Dubai’s Domus M. Turan’s current research explores A E C

K Urban Trajectory”; and a Research Fellowship contemporary urbanities in Istanbul. Her arti- T H U A

R at the Institute for International Urban cle on the shifting condition of the twentieth- N E &

T Development in Cambridge, MA. Stephen century Istanbul seafront will be published in R

U completed his coursework and examinations the upcoming book Landscapes of S T for the Doctoral Program in May 2006, and his Development. Turan will present a paper at the F O plans for the 2006-7 school year include a ACSA “Surfacing Urbanisms” conference in the R

C Teaching Fellowship for Prof. Jerold S. Kayden’s fall of 2006, and her work will be exhibited at U L

T course “Public Private Development,” in the the Second International Architecture Biennial U

R fall of 2006; assistant editorship of Prof. of Istanbul in 2007. She is currently acting as E Hashim Sarkis’s forthcoming book, When the publications coordinator at the Harvard Schools Went Modern: Primary and Secondary Design School Aga Khan Program. Education Facilities in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, assistant editor-

ship of the International Manual for Planning 16 Practice, and continuing research on his doctoral dissertation. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Recent and Upcoming Publications Activities for 2006-2007 Han Tumertekin: Recent Work, Turkish Triangle, Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir Courses: edited by Hashim Sarkis at the Gates of Europe, essays by Ilhan Tekeli, Seminar on Tourism and the Desert Focusing on six recent projects, including Murat Guvenc, Zeynep Enlil, and Cemal Arkon by Virginie Lefebvre House 2B, that recently won the prestigious Every classification of Turkish cities singles out Studio on Beyoglu, Istanbul Aga Khan Award for Architecture, this publica- three major urban centers while relegating by Han Tumertekin

A tion presents the architecture of renowned the rest to the status of secondary cities. Seminar and studio on “New Geographies,” G

A Turkish architect Han Tumertekin to the Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir have been the by Hashim Sarkis K

H English-speaking world. The book examines in major poles of growth and development in A

N detail his ability to engage in some of the Turkey since the Republic was formed. To be Faculty Research Support: P

R more difficult issues confronting architects sure, these three cities have followed very Virginie Lefebvre on Tourism and the Desert O

G throughout the world today, such as suburban different paths. R A

M tract development, landscape and environ- Aga Khan Public Lecture: issue

F ment, and the challenges of practicing in Through a series of three case studies pre- Sahel al-Hiyari, architect, Jordan, and winner 3 O R different countries throughout the world. pared by preeminent academics involved in of the Rolex Mentorship Award, 2004 I S

L [Harvard University Press, 2006] their respective city's planning efforts, and an akpia A M introduction by Turkey's most renowned Conference: akt c I october 2006 C T A Two Squares, Martyrs Square Beirut and urban historian and theorist, Ilhan Tekeli, the The Desert and Tourism, organized in H R C E Sirkeci Square, Istanbul, edited by Hashim book studies the rise of these three main collaboration with the Moroccan Studies H A I G

T Sarkis, with Mark Dwyer and Pars Kibarer urban centers in Turkey and their roles in Program at Harvard University. A E C

K Through a series of essays by urban historians organizing the territory and its future reor- T H U A

R and designers, Two Squares examines the ganization. [Harvard University Press, 2006] Forthcoming publications: N E &

T changing role of public space in the cities of Landscapes of Development, R

U Beirut and Istanbul as they undergo major edited by Pani Pyla S T urban redevelopment. The study of Beirut Dubai, edited by Ahmed Kanna F O looks at the redesign of Martyrs’ Square, the R

C city's primary public space, in the aftermath of U L

T the civil war and the ongoing reconstruction U

R efforts to rebuild the center. In Istanbul, the E focus is on Sirkeci Square, one of the main intermodal hubs in the historic peninsula, as it readies itself to host a new station for the first under-Bosphorus train tunnel. Han Tumertekin: Recent Work, Sahel al-Hiyari [Harvard University Press, 2006] edited by Hashim Sarkis architect, Jordan 17 Harvard University Press, 2006 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty international conference,“Islamic Cities in the Classical Age,” which he organized at MIT in May 2005. Nasser Rabbat Wasma’a Khalid Chorbachi Nasser’s recently published essays include:

A Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor of “‘Ajib and Gharib: Artistic Perception in Medieval Wasma’a is an artist and a historian of Islamic G

A Islamic Architecture at MIT where he has Arabic Sources,”(2006);“The Militarization of Art & Civilization. Her main academic interest K

H been teaching since 1991. His interests include Taste in Medieval Bilad al-Sham”,(2005);“Islamic and research is geometric design and Islamic A

N Islamic art and architecture, medieval urban Architecture as a Field of Historical Inquiry” architectural decoration. Wasma’a concen- P

R history and historiography, and post-colonial (2004);“The Dialogic Dimension in Umayyad trates on documenting the meeting of science O

G criticism. In 2005-06 he taught two lecture Art”,(2003); and “Hassan Fathy and the Identity and art in Islamic civilization through study- R A

M courses on the architecture of the Islamic Debate”,(2003) ing manuscripts of practical geometry written issue

F world, one graduate seminar on Orientalism for the artisans, as well as research on Islamic 3 O R and another on cultural signification in archi- Beside publishing articles in specialized schol- ceramic techniques, design in Arabic calligra- I S

L tecture. Many of his courses are available on arly journals and edited collections, professor phy, Arabic calligraphy in China and on the akpia A M the web: 4.614, which covers the history of Nasser regularly contributes to a number Muslims of China. akt c I october 2006 C T A religious architecture, 4.615 on the history of of Arabic newspapers and journals, such as H R C E Cairo, and 4.613 on civic Islamic architecture. Wughat Nazar, Akhbar al-Adab, Jaridat As an artist, Wasma’a has been working in H A I G

T al-Funun, al-Ibda‘at and al-Adaab, on art, clay medium for the last two decades. A E C

K Professor Rabbat co-edited Making Cairo architectural, and critical and cultural issues. Aesthetically, her art is “…an art that contem- T H U A

R Medieval (Lexington Press, 2005) with Nezar He serves on the boards of various organiza- plates Divine Beauty and Perfection with N E &

T AlSayyad and Irene Beirman. He is currently tions concerned with Islamic cultures, prayers of Blessings upon the human soul,” R

U working on a study on the fifteenth-century lectures extensively in the US and abroad, Anne Marie Schimmel. S T Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi,, which will be and maintains several websites focused on F O Her art works have been displayed at and R published by Brill, and a collection of essays, Islamic Architecture.

C Architecture As Social History: Building, Culture, acquired by many museums including:The U L

T and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria, cur- Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, U

R rently under consideration by I.B. Tauris. He is Scotland; The British Museum, London; E also finalizing two other books: L'art Islamique Women’s Museum, Washington D.C.; Beit à la recherche d'une méthode historique, a al-Qur’an Museum, Manamah, Bahrain; The collection of essays which he originally Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Sackler delivered as lectures at the Institut du monde Museum in Cambridge, U.S.A.

arabe (IMA) in Paris, and the proceedings of an > 18 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty Open Rank Professorship > Presently, Wasma’a has a ceramic plate on Position related to the architecture of the Islamic display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Open rank professorship, The Aga Khan world into the rest of the curriculum in the The Sackler Museum is displaying a set of Program for Islamic Architecture. department of architecture. eight modular tiles from the series:“ The Mystery of Supplication”. Her floor to ceiling A Description Qualifications G

A ceramic Mihrab - prayer niche, is now installed The Department of Architecture at MIT Prospective candidates should have demon- K

H in the Muslim Prayer Room at Massachusetts announces an open rank position in architectur- strated accomplishments that qualify them A

N General Hospital in Boston. al studies to begin in the fall semester of 2007. for the above responsibilities, especially famil-

P The position is supported from a generous gift iarity with countries with substantial Islamic R O

G from the Aga Khan as part of the Aga Khan populations and their social, cultural, environ- R

A Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT. mental, and architectural contexts. A profes- M issue sional degree in architecture with extensive F 3 O R The successful candidate will be involved pri- experience in an Islamic context and/or a I S marily in the study of modern architecture Ph.D. in architecture or related field required; L akpia A M and/or urban design in the Islamic world fluency in at least one language of the Islamic

akt c I october 2006 C (roughly from the late18th century to the world is strongly preferred. T A H R present), with an interest in design, urban, C E H A social, and/or environmental questions. S/he Screening will be conducted on the basis of: I G T A E will demonstrate an ability to engage critical letter of interest, curriculum vitae, sample C K T H U issues, such as the role of tradition, modernity, publications including design work, and three A R N E ecology, and identity politics in architecture or references to be sent directly to the search & T

R the impact of recent technologies, economic committee. We will begin reviewing applica- U S

T concerns, and/or current debates on architec- tions in early November 2006 and continue F

O tural theory and practice in his/her research until the position is filled. R

C and teaching. S/he will provide guidance for U

L graduate and undergraduate students study- For inquiries: email [email protected], T U

R ing issues related to the architecture and or call 617.253.1400. E urbanism of the Islamic world in particular, and the developing world in general. S/he will MIT is an equal opportunity/affirmative action participate in developing the academic and institution. Women and minority candidates research programs supported by the Aga are strongly encouraged to apply. The Mystery of Supplication (2002-2003) Khan Program, and in integrating coursework 19 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Post-doctoral Fellows Students

Nadia M. Alhasani Sibel Zandi-Sayek Saima Akhtar

A Nadia is a Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Sibel Zandi-Sayek is Assistant Professor of Saima is a second year SMArchS student. G

A Program for Islamic Art and Architecture – MIT Architectural History at the College of William Her academic interest is in the contemporary K

H and Professor of Architecture at the American and Mary. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in use and significance of Islamic art and A

N University of Sharjah. She completed her gradu- Architecture from the Middle East Technical architecture in the United States. Her specific P

R ate studies in architecture at the University of University, Master’s degrees in Architecture focus will be Shangri La in Hawai’i, which is O

G Pennsylvania and MIT and has held teaching and City Planning from the University of the residence and creation of the heiress to R A

M positions at University of Pennsylvania, Miami Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Architectural the Duke fortune, Doris Duke. issue

F of Florida, Notre Dame, and Michigan. Nadia History from the University of California, 3 O R was the recipient of the 1990-91 Willard A. Berkeley. An interdisciplinary scholar, her inter- Saima is a graduate from the University of I S

L Oberdick Fellowship in the Building Sciences ests range from nineteenth- and twentieth- Michigan with Bachelor of Science degrees akpia A M from the University of Michigan; the 1992 century architecture and urbanism in both in both Architecture and Psychology. Upon akt c I october 2006 C T A Graham Foundation Grant; and the 1994 Western and non-Western settings to critical graduation, she conducted research with the H R C E National ACSA Faculty Teaching Award. She investigations of notions of modernity, citizen- Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in H A I G

T teaches design and technology with research ship, and the public sphere as they inform the Washington, D.C., and worked in a residential A E C

K interests that focus on theories of technology production of the built environment. Sibel has architecture firm shortly thereafter. In the T H U A R and production, design through construction, conducted extensive research on the multicul- summer of 2006, Saima worked as an intern N E &

T cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary dialogues, tural environment of Mediterranean port with the Historic Cities Support Programme, R

U and the architecture and planning of the cities (especially late Ottoman) and the poli- at Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt. The tentative S T non-Western World. She has lectured and been tics of place and identity those settings have year of completion for her current degree F O

R published widely in the field of architectural fostered. She has published articles on these is 2007.

C topics and is currently writing a book that U production, technology and culture, and most L

T recently, architectural education. examines the conflicts over the reorganization U

R of physical space in nineteenth-century E Izmir/Smyrna at a time when the Ottoman Empire refashioned itself into a modern Islamic state.

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Students

Azra Aksamija Dalia al-Husseini Mohammed al-Khabbaz

A Azra is an artist, architect and a Ph.D. candidate Dalia is a second year SMArchS student. She Mohammed is a first year AKPIA SMArchS G

A since 2004. Her interest are in carrying out tar- graduated with a Bachelor of Science in student. He is interested in exploring the K

H geted investigations that address the current Architecture from the University of Jordan in contemporary architecture of the Arabian A

N conflicts over gender, law, politics and globaliza- 2001, and completed internship work with Gulf countries in the context of culture and P

R tion related to Islam and expressed in art and KEO International Consultants in Kuwait. She trade. His interest comes after three years of O

G architecture.While reinterpreting historical ele- served as a research and coordination officer practicing architecture and traveling through R A

M ments of Islamic architecture, her aim is to syn- at the Center for the Study of the Built all the countries in the Arabian Peninsula. issue

F thesize learning and the interacting between Environment in Amman, Jordan, for three Mohammed received a scholarship from 3 O R Muslim and non-Muslim cultures as well as years. She has been awarded a Fulbright King Fahd University of Petroleum and I S

L enable spatial aggregation of diverse Muslim scholarship 2005 - 2007 to complete her Minerals (KFUPM) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, akpia A M sub-cultures and their religious practices. By master’s at MIT. where he graduated with Bachelor of akt c I october 2006 C T A pointing at this tremendous variation in social Architecture in 2002. As an architect, he was H R C E and religious practice across the wide spectrum While at MIT, Dalia is focusing on issues relat- involved in variety of architectural and visuali- H A I G

T of the Muslim nations, Azra’s research aims to ed to low-income housing and community zation projects. He is scheduled to graduate A E C

K re-symbolize contemporary Muslim environ- development. She participated in a workshop from MIT in 2008. T H U A R ments. She is interested in exploring elements on squatter settlements in Manila with the N E &

T that allow us to identify an Islamic identity, Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements R

U whereas the aspect of “mergence”- interaction (SIGUS). She also participated in a project to S T of the Muslim contribution and the local condi- develop innovative affordable housing solu- F O

R tions, should become a mutual enrichment. tions for rebuilding regions of coastal

C Louisiana. In the summer she joined a Boston- U L

T In 2006 Azra participated in many lectures, based architecture firm on a team developing U

R conferences and symposia, including: Platform master plans for labor housing villages in E Dictionary of War, Graz, Austria; Lecture in the Aqaba, Jordan. Magribija Mosque/Lost Highway Expedition, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; International City Mostar Workshop, Bosnia and Herzegovina;

and,The Mosque in the West Symposium, MIT 21 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Students

Mohamed Elshahed Aftab Jalia Pamela Karimi

A Currently in his second year of the SMArchS Aftab is a first year SMArch.S student. A During the 2004-05 academic year Pamela G

A program, Mohamed is interested in the role of trained architect, his interests lie in studying finished her pre-dissertation requirements and K

H nostalgia and historicism in contemporary the architectural adaptations that took shape completed her research in various archives A

N Egyptian culture and architecture and the role due to the expansion by Islamic rulers and within the U.S. She also edited the fall 2006 P

R of tourism in changing the urban experience also the interdisciplinary factors affecting issue of Thresholds, MIT’s journal of visual O

G of Egypt. He completed his BArch at the New such a confluence of cultures. By examining culture. Her publications included an entry on R A

M Jersey Institute of Technology in 2005. During such events he intends to derive analogies to gender and urban environments in Iran for The issue

F his first year in the program he explored the the present day scenario of contemporary Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. 3 O R interrelation between Egyptian domestic expression in architectural design in the She also presented papers at the 2006 annual I S

L space and its representational counterpart in Indian sub-continent. He will also be explor- meeting of the Society of Architectural akpia A M television serials. A second project titled ing the emergence of new patronage and Historians as well as the 2006 Majlis forum. akt c I october 2006 C T A “Ornament Cosmètique: Memory in Cairene bring forth its role in stimulating the suste- Her recent archival work for her dissertation, H R C E Architecture from the Belle Époque” explores nance of the craft and design in Islamic cul- “Exporting the American Dream:The United H A I G

T the role of nostalgia in the construction of an tures. On completion of his internship with States and the Making of the Modern Iranian A E C

K image of modern Cairo. In addition, he is a Charles Correa Associates, Mumbai, in Fall Home,” was supported by grants from the T H U A R research assistant for the AKTC supported 2005, Aftab went on to graduate from the Harry Truman Institute and the Presbyterian N E &

T online community ArchNet where he worked Allana College of Architecture, standing first Historical Society. She will continue her R

U on architectural descriptions of Mamluk mon- in Pune University for the class of 2006. Aftab research in Iran with fellowships from the S T uments in Jerusalem. He has worked on The will graduate from MIT in 2008. Social Science Research Council and the Henry F O

R Gates by artists Christo + Jeanne-Claude and Luce Foundation. This six-month fieldwork

C includes investigations in various Iranian U has been involved in restoration projects by L

T Legambiente in Italy and Concordia in France. archives as well as post-WWII housing areas. U

R With fellowships from the Barakat Foundation E and the American Association of University Women, she hopes to finish writing her disser- tation by the end of 2007. She expects to defend her dissertation in 2008.

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Students

Anneka Lenssen Melanie Michailidis

A Anneka Lenssen is a first-year PhD student. Melanie Michailidis is a PhD candidate in the G

A Anneka’s recent research focused on a codico- History,Theory and Criticism of Architecture. K

H logical study of the al-Jazari Automata manu- Her dissertation,“Landmarks of the Persian A

N script, reading its matrix of hiyal illustrations Renaissance:Monumental Funerary Architecture P

R as a self-conscious embodiment of classical in Iran and Central Asia in the Tenth and Eleventh O

G erudition. At MIT, Anneka plans to focus on art Centuries”,studies the sudden proliferation of R A

M and theory in the contemporary Middle East, mausolea for secular rulers of Iranian descent in issue

F specifically the Gulf, with a particular interest the tenth and eleventh centuries.It addresses 3 O R in art market pressures and the construction how they drew on the pre-Islamic past in new and I S

L of the avant garde(s). She spent the summer specific ways reflecting the different historical akpia A M studying Arabic. circumstances of Iran and Central Asia.She will akt c I october 2006 C T A defend the dissertation in summer 2007.This year, H R C E Anneka received a BA in Studio Art from she is in residence at the Center for Advanced H A I G

T Kenyon College in 2001. She worked full-time Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery A E C

K for five years at Harvard University while pur- in Washington as the Ittleson Fellow. T H U A R suing a Master of Liberal Arts in the History of N E &

T Art from Harvard’s Division of Continuing Melanie has conducted fieldwork in Iran, R

U Education most notably studying with Uzbekistan and Western Europe with grants S T Professor David Roxburgh. She was also active from the Aga Khan Program, the Department F O

R in Boston’s local art scene, reviewing exhibi- of Architecture at MIT,the Barakat Foundation,

C the Institute for International Education U tions and serving on the board of Mobius, an L

T artist collaborative that specializes in time- (Fulbright),and the Center for Advanced Study U

R based new media works. in the Visual Arts. E

23 AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

AKP MIT Librarians

Omar Khalidi

A Omar Khalidi is the Collections/Reference Library G

A at MIT’s Rotch Library.Omar organized a K

H symposium entitled The Mosque in the West A

N at MIT in May 2006. Presentations focused on P

R both contemporary mosque design in North O

G America and Europe as well as issues pertaining R A

M to mosque-based Muslim activities within the issue

F larger societies in which they.Omar is collaborat- 3 O R ing with Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan to publish I S

L the proceedings of this symposium with akpia A M additional contributions. akt c I october 2006 C T A H R C E In August, Omar attended the second annual H A City Center, Hyderabad, India I G

T conference on Islamic manuscripts held at A E C

K Queen’s College in Cambridge University,UK. T H U A

R A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, N E &

T India, is a new project Omar has undertaken. R

U The Guide will consist of short descriptive text, S T photos, and plans of some 200 heritage build- F O

R ings and precincts in the historic Islamic city in

C south-central India. The Guide to Architecture in U L

T Hyderabad will be published electronically in U

R early January 2007.A hard copy publication is E also under consideration.

Omar’s professional interests are in the scholarship of Islamic architecture, Orientalism,

and Occidentalism. 24

email: [email protected] | tel: 617-258-5597 AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE

USA Tour of Via Kabul: Central Asia Without Borders

The Music of Central Asia, volume 1 Music and musicians have historically played a The inaugural 2006 European tour presented vital role in the cultures of Central Eurasia and masters of Central Asia's traditional music as A

G the Middle East. Music traditionally served not well as performers who are revitalising the art A

K only as entertainment, but as a way to rein- form through new approaches to performance H

A force social and moral values, and musicians style, repertory, and technique. For information N about venues and dates, please see:

P provided models of exemplary leadership. R

O Whether bringing listeners closer to God, sus- http://www.akdn.org/Music/ G

R taining cultural memory through epic tales, or 2006europetour.htm A

issue M strengthening the bonds of community F 3 O through festivity and celebration, musicians AKMICA sponsored The Music of Central Asia, R

I have been central to social life. In 2000, recog- volumes 1-3, which was released by S L akpia A nition of this important role led His Highness Smithsonian Folkways in March 2006. The M

akt c I the Aga Khan to establish the Aga Khan Music innovative series, which will eventually com- october 2006 C T A Initiative in Central Asia (AKMICA) with the aim prise 10 volumes, includes a CD as well as a The Music of Central Asia, volume 2 H R C E DVD featuring a documentary film on the H of assisting in the preservation of Central Asia's A I G T musicians as well as interactive instrument A E musical heritage by ensuring its transmission C K T to a new generation of artists and audiences, glossaries and maps. H U A R

N both inside the region and beyond its borders. E & T R U S T F O R C U L T U R E

The Music of Central Asia, volume 3

25 AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE

Education Programme: Architectural Education Workshop

The Education Programme has three interrelat- ed goals: improving the training of architectur- A

G al professionals for work in the Muslim world; A increasing cross-cultural understanding of K H

A Islamic architecture and the intimate connec- N tion between architecture and culture in P R

O Islamic civilisations; and creating greater G

R awareness and appreciation of the diversity A

issue M and pluralism of Muslim cultures within the F 3 O Muslim world itself as well as in the West. R I S L akpia A In July 2006, the Education Programme of the M

akt c I Trust invited and hosted 11 educators from the october 2006 C T A Muslim world to participate and act as editors H R C E in an Architectural Education Workshop in H A I G T Geneva with the aim of conducting an in- A E C K

T depth survey of architecture, planning and H U A R environmental design education in the Muslim N E & T world. The survey aims to probe into the archi- R U tecture, planning and related educational S T

F milieu, in the Muslim World, by broaching Budi Sukada, Indonesia, Jamal Al-Qawasmi, Jordan, Hammad Husain, Pakistan, O

R issues of historical, institutional and pedagogi- Mashary Al-Naim, Saudi Arabia, Shiraz Allibhai, Naima Chabbi-Chemrouk, Algeria,

C Saodat Mukimova, Tajikistan, Fuad Mallick, Bangladesh, Peter Rowe, Wael Samhouri, Syria, U cal developments, as well as providing more

L Akhtar Chauhan, India, Ali Cengizkhan, Turkey, and Ashraf Salama, Egypt T

U comprehensive assessments of present and R

E persistent problems, opportunities and needs.

The Workshop will meet again in 2007 to review and analyze the findings of the survey, which will be conducted both regionally and

country-specifically by each of the editors. 26 AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE

Architectural Journalism and AKTC and CyArk Partner on a 3D

Criticism Conference Pilot Project Architectural Journalism and Criticism Conference, Kuwait A seminar entitled Architectural Journalism and In September 2006, AKTC partnered with CyArk Criticism, co-organised by the Aga Khan Award to conduct a High Definition Documentation A

G for Architecture and the Kuwait Society of (HDD) of the Bab al-Barqiyya located on the A Engineers, was held in Kuwait City on the 6th Ayyubid Wall in Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt. The K H

A and 7th December 2005.The meeting was pilot project with AKTC aimed to create a com- N planned in collaboration with the International prehensive and accurate 3D digital base dataset P R

O Committee of Architectural Critics and the of the Bab al-Barqiyya from which will be G

R Kuwait League of Architects. derived a set of 3D and 2D tools for site plan- A

issue M ning, site management, and conservation, and F 3 O The seminar was the final component of the digital deliverables that may be used for pro- R motion, public outreach, and education. I Middle-East Architecture and Design S L akpia A Conference and Exhibition that began in Kuwait M

akt c I on 3rd December 2005.The conference and High Definition Documentation (HDD) is an october 2006 C Leica 3D scanner inside the Bab al-Barqiyya, T A exhibition are one of the most important events integrated method that utilizes advanced sur- H

R Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt C E of their kind, bringing together a range of inter- vey and imaging technologies consisting pri- H A I G T ests in the field of urban planning and architec- marily of high definition laser scanning, and A E C K

T tural design and building , interior design, and high resolution high resolution, high dynamic H U A R landscape architecture, as well as other design- range photography. HDD creates a 3D dimen- N E & T related services, in this region where construc- sionally precise dataset that constitutes a more R U tion and urban development activity has wit- accurate and more detailed survey record than S T surveys produced by traditional methods. The F nessed unprecedented growth in recent years. O

R 3D image data generated by HDD forms an C

U Themes for discussion at the seminar included accurate survey record, that constitutes a com- L

T 3D point cloud scan of the Bab al-Barqiyya,

U the role, context and purpose of architectural prehensive, dimensionally precise base dataset

R Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt

E journalism and criticism, the relations between which site managers, archaeologists, and con- practicing architects and critics and journalists, servators can use in a variety of ways that are and the role of media and photography in the not possible with traditional survey records. field of architecture and urban planning.

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World Habitat Award 2006 for ble to earthquake damage. They often lack Water Flows Again in Baghe Babur Aga Khan Planning and Building proper ventilation for wood fires, which then Service leads to acute respiratory disease, pneumonia As part of a comprehensive AKTC rehabilitation and eye conditions. The excessive use of wood programme in this 16th century garden in The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service for cooking, heating and construction also Kabul, water is again flowing down the 8 levels

A results in high levels of deforestation and a loss

G (AKPBS) received the World Habitat Award. of the restored central axis. The centre-piece of A AKPBS was cited for its efforts to improve of biodiversity.The complex problem is made a garden originally laid out in the 16th century K

H more difficult by the general lack of construc-

A housing conditions in Pakistan through its by the Mughal emperor Babur, the system of N Building and Construction Improvement tion skills and limited natural resources. pools, channels and distinctive marble water- P R

O Programme (BACIP). falls has been reconstructed using traditional G

R materials and techniques, above the traces A

issue M The United Nations Human Settlements exposed by archaeological excavations that F 3 O Programme presents the World Habitat Awards took place between 2003-5. R

I each year. Projects nominated for the award S L akpia A must demonstrate practical, innovative and Drawing also on historical accounts and M

akt c I sustainable solutions to current housing issues images of the garden, there has been extensive october 2006 C T A faced by countries of the South and North. landscaping of the terraces along the central H R C E These solutions must be replicable in a variety axis, in order to restore something of the char- H A I G T of environments. acter of the original ‘avenue garden’ of which A E C K

T Babur was so fond, and where he is buried. Of H U A R AKPBS has developed over 60 low-cost, seismic- the 3500 trees planted to date, the majority are N E & T resistant, energy- and resource-efficient hous- of species which he mentions in his memoirs, R U ing construction methods and standards. These the Baburnama. S T

F range from smoke-free stoves and screened

O The Aga Khan Planning and Building Services

R kitchen cabinets for storing food to water Since the re-location of the public swimming (AKPBS) works to improve the built environment, C

U heaters and ventilation systems. particularly housing design and construction, pool outside of the garden, there has been a L T village planning, natural hazard mitigation,

U marked increase in the numbers of families

R environmental sanitation, water supplies, and

E Many of these products and low-cost technolo- groups having picnics on the shady orchard ter- other living conditions. gies are designed to address the prevailing races that extend on both sides of the central housing conditions in poor areas of the devel- axis. As the trees that have been planted beside oping world. These include rooms that are dark, the pools and channels grow in size, it will be damp, dusty, poorly constructed and suscepti- possible for visitors to share Babur’s delight in

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AKTC Library and Collections >

sitting under the shade of tall panjachinar trees, listening to the sound of water flowing down the waterfalls. William O’Reilly

Read about AKTC work in Kabul A

G At the current time, documentation is being A received from architects and clients for projects K H

A nominated for the Aga Khan Award for N Architecture’s 10th cycle. During this cycle, sever- P R

O al hundred contemporary buildings, as well as G

R conservation and rehabilitation projects, are pre- A

M Slide archives, AKTC, Geneva, Switzerland issue sented to the Master Jury.The documentation F 3 O includes presentation panels, images and draw- R

I ings, and information on the history and scope S L akpia A of projects, often backed up with texts, films and M

akt c I videos. It is processed and catalogued on arrival october 2006 C T A and will be used by the Master Jury during their H R C E meetings in 2007 as the basis for their assess- H A Water channel, Baghe Babur, Kabul, Afghanistan I G T ment, which will culminate in the selection and A E C K

T presentation of Awards later that year.Once this H U A R process is complete, the materials will become N E & T part of the AKTC library collections R U S T

F Much of the documentation on the work of the O

R Historic Cities Support Programme (HCSP) of Library, AKTC, Geneva, Switzerland C

U the Trust is generated on-site. Ongoing efforts L T

U are being made to ensure that a full account of R

E HCSP activities around the world are available Baghe Babur, Kabul, Afghanistan in the Geneva archive and library. At present, records of the Programme’s work in Zanzibar are being reviewed to ensure a comprehensive coverage in Geneva, as has already been done

with its work in Cairo, Mostar and Syria. The 29 results of this process will, in turn, become available to a wider audience through ArchNet. ARCHNET

Accomplishments in 2006

As of October 2006, ArchNet has over 39,000 Library collections. 650 additional images of Hazrat-i Ali Shrine (Mazar-e Sharif) from southeast, taken from roof of bazaar since demolished members from 173 countries. The holdings of Afghan sites were obtained from the Aga Khan (Photographer: Oskar von Niedermayer, c. 1916-1917) its Digital Library (DL) have increased to 47,750 Trust for Culture in Kabul to bring up-to-date A

G images and 3,820 files, illustrating more than information on ongoing restoration and com- A 5000 historic and contemporary buildings munity works to ArchNet users. Acquisitions to K H

A and urban projects in ninety-five countries the Turkey section of the Digital Library include N around the world. It supports an impressive the Sinan Collection, photographs (Reha Günay) P R

O average of some 8,400 unique users on a and isometric drawings (Arben Arapi) of Sinan’s G

R daily basis who download 35GB of informa- monuments from Professor Gülru Necipoglu’s˘ A

issue M tion in the form of images and publications “The Age of Sinan”, which are to be comple- F 3 O on a weekly basis. This translates to 369,917 mented with architectural descriptions. R

I publications and files downloaded between S L akpia A January – September 2006. With the core collection of Islamic monuments M

akt c I almost complete, new student RAs (Aftab Jalia, october 2006 C Hazrat-i Ali Shrine, same view as above, with modern T A During the last academic year, graduate stu- Gordana Jakimovska,Tsitsi Gora and Cassim H R landscaped parkway leading to the southeast gateway C E dents Rana Amirtahmasebi, Mohamed Shepard) will revise existing India sites, draft H (formerly a bazaar portal). (Photographer: Stephen A I G T Elshahed, Onur Yüce Gün, Marta Morais, Gena CAD plans of core monuments, process a spe- Shucart, 2005) A E C K

T Peditto and Olga Touloumi have prepared archi- cial collection on Swahili architecture and com- H U A R tectural descriptions and image galleries for pose introductory texts for historic cities. The N E & T core Islamic monuments in Afghanistan, Iran, development of the ArchNet CAD collection R U Turkey and Jerusalem.The documentation of 45 (located under the DL Project Files) gained S T

F historic monuments in Afghanistan is now speed this summer with Professor Nasser O

R complete, comprising 700+ new images includ- Rabbat’s donation of 95 early Islamic and C

U ing a large donation of pre-war photographs Mamluk plans (drawn by Saeed Arida) from his L T

U from the 1968-1971 PeaceCorps volunteers. Rare teaching archive. Each CAD plan is duplicated in R

E historic views of endangered monuments such .jpg format in the image gallery of the related as the Jam Minaret, Mas’ud III Minaret monument; these plans are being compiled (Ghazni), Gawhar Shad Musalla Complex under a new collection entitled Architectural (Herat) and No Gumbad Mosque (Balkh), and of Drawings, which will soon be accessible from Elevated view of Sulayman I Takiyya Complex, heavily restored structures such as the Arch at the main site of the Digital Library. ArchNet is Damascus (Drawn by Arben N. Arapi)

Bust were digitized from the Harvard Fine Arts > 30 ARCHNET William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, MIT >

also looking forward to the addition of 2500+ documents. It supports an impressive average AKPIA: images of Syrian cities and monuments taken of some 8,400 unique users on a daily http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/ by Architect/Planner Michel Ecochard between basis who download 35GB of information AKDN: 1930 and 1936 (courtesy of the AKTC Library in in the form of images and publications on www.akdn.org/ A

G Geneva), and the complete anthology of a weekly basis. ArchNet: A http://archnet.org K writings by Professor Emeritus Oleg Grabar. H

A The original design of the ArchNet site was N Please contact Özgür Basak Alkan (Project innovative for its time, and the site has succeed- P R

O Coordinator, [email protected]) if you wish to ed in its goals of providing wide and convenient G

R donate images or make corrections to the access to an extensive digital library and building A

issue M ArchNet Digital Library. General questions a global community around that resource. F 3 O regarding the website can be directed to However, in the seven years since ArchNet was R

I Ophelia Celine (Project Assistant, initiated in 1999, it has become increasingly S L akpia A [email protected]). outdated, and the time has come to replace it M

akt c I with a completely redesigned, more robust and october 2006 C T A functionally sophisticated version.

H ArchNet Commences Research R C E

H On Version 2.0 A I G T The central goal of the proposed ArchNet 2 is A E C K T ArchNet has been very successful in creating not only to provide enhanced functionality H U ArchNet team (From left to right) Front row: Tsitsi Isabel A R an unmatched and unparalleled resource for and access to continually expanding content N E Gora, Shiraz Allibhai, Ozgur Basak Alkan, & T the study of Islamic civilizations and architec- resources, but also – and crucially – to shift the R Mohamed Kamal Elshahed. Back row: Cassim Shepard, U ture. At its start, ArchNet had two ambitious project into an Open Source and Open Content S

T Ophelia Celine, Aftab Jalia, Rana Amirtahmasebi,

F goals: it aimed to create a digital community framework that will provide long-term sustain-

O Gordana Jakimovska

R that shares expertise, local experience, ability. ArchNet 2 will take much greater advan- C

U resources, and dialogue; while at the same tage of the energy and creativity of the user L T

U time, ArchNet sought to become an indispen- community, which will be less one of passive R

E sable tool for the teaching of architecture by content consumers and more one of active creating a free, unique, archival resource. content creators. ArchNet has over 38,000 members registered from over 120 countries. The Digital Library The re-structuring, re-thinking, and re-visioning contains more than 47,000 images of of ArchNet will be supervised by Professor architecture in the Muslim world and over William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture Newsletter compiled by Jose Arguello 31 3,500 publications, reports and technical and Media Arts and Sciences, MIT. and Rich Burns, designed by Ink Design