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 Nine Projects Receive The 2001 Aga Khan Award For Architecture |
On 6 November 2001, at a ceremony to be held in Syria at the historical Citadel of Aleppo, His Highness the Aga Khan will announce the nine recipients of the 2001 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and present a special Chairman's Award to the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The occasion completes the eighth cycle of the programme, which has a triennial prize fund of US$ 500,000, making it the world's largest architectural award. The Award programme will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2003. More...
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| Geoffrey Bawa receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture special Chairman's Award |
Geoffrey Bawa is Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential architect. His work has had tremendous impact upon architecture throughout Asia and is unanimously acclaimed by connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Surprisingly, however, his architecture is not well known outside the region, and has not received the international attention it deserves. On only the third occasion since he founded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1977, His Highness the Aga Khan presented the special Chairman's Award during the 2001 Award Ceremony, which was held in the historic Citadel of Aleppo in Syria, on November 6, to Mr. Bawa to honour and celebrate his lifetime achievements in and contribution to the field of architecture. More…
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| Master's Theses in Jordan, 1989-2000 |
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The Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) has published, in association with ArchNet, a database containing the abstracts of master's theses presented at the departments of architecture at the University of Jordan and the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), the two Jordanian universities that offer master's degrees in architecture. The searchable database covers about 80 theses completed since 1989, when the first master's thesis in architecture was completed in Jordan, and extends until the end of the year 2000. The database has been compiled in cooperation with the departments of architecture at both the University of Jordan and JUST, and will be updated at regular intervals. The database can be accessed directly at the CSBE institutional workspace on the ArchNet site , or through the E-publications section of the CSBE web site. (Contributed by Mohammad al-Asad)
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| Professor Kurula Varkey |
We are very sad to announce that ArchNet member Professor Kurula Varkey, Director of the School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad, passed away in a tragic accident on the evening of October 30, 2001. The ArchNet team would like to offer our sincerest condolences to Professor VarkeyÕs family, friends, colleagues, and students. An obituary is available and an online condolence book that members can sign has been created by one of his former students.
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| The Empire that was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated |
The Library of Congress provides a striking and tantalizing introduction to the magnificent early color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken using the system he had invented and with the support of the Czar between 1908 and WWI, including several of his magnificent Central Asian images. These have been made available at very high resolution so the online images are splendid and make their subjects look as if they were photographed yesterday, a totally different impression than the albumen prints or the old gelatin silver prints give. The exhibition, The Empire that Was Russia may be accessed at: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ (Contributed by Jeff Spurr.)
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| Medina Magazine New Issue, Nov. 2001 |
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The new issue of Medina Magazine is currently in progress. The November 2001 issue will include a comprehensive article on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture procedures, and a description of the awarded projects of the 2001 cycle. Other articles are devoted to museum design in which distinguished projects will be presented. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture has designated one of the historical palaces as a museum for the great Egyptian singer, Om Kalthoum. Nachar-Segeeny, a new small scale art museum in Cairo-Alexandria road is critically analyzed. The design proposal of the science museum in Riyadh is featured. Results of the latest competition of Science Museum in Egypt are presented. In addition to these articles, the issue will feature its regular sections on art, calendar, international and local news, and projects in progress. (Contributed by Ashraf M. A. Salama.)
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| The ArchNet Digital Library continues to grow |
Currently there are approximately 8,000 images and 1,400 publications in the Digital Library, and it continues to grow. This month we have added the following resources: 550 images of contemporary architecture in the AKTC Archives, 37 images of historical monuments of Cairo, 290 general views (aerial and street views of cities), 40 photographs from Iran, 35 from Morocco, 135 from Spain, and 15 from Turkey. In the publications section, we have also added 100 articles or chapters from publications ranging from Theories and Principles of Design in the Architecture of Islamic Societies to Adaptive Reuse: Integrating Traditional Areas into the Modern Urban Fabric. There are a number of other projects in progress that should appear in the next few months. The Cohn-Wiener collection from the British Museum contains over 800 black and white images from the 1930s of Central Asia, and a collection on Sinan is being assembled by Gulru Necipoglu of Harvard University. We are also in the midst of scanning all the volumes of Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Center. It will join other publications such as Muqarnas and Mimar, both of which are currently available on ArchNet.
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