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october 2005features:Lecture Series p.2Aga Khan Program MIT p.4Aga Khan Program Harvard p.13Aga Khan Program GSD p.23Aga Khan Trust for Culture p.25ArchNet p.30THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTUREa k pa ikat c2issueAKPIAAKDNBased at Harvard University and theThe Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC)Massachusetts Institute of Technology,focuses on the physical, social, cultural andThe Aga Khan Program for Islamiceconomic revitalization of communities inArchitecture (AKPIA) is dedicated to thethe Muslim world. It includes the Aga Khanstudy of Islamic art and architecture,Award for Architecture, the Historic Citiesurbanism, landscape design, andSupport Programme, and Education andconservation - and the application ofCulture initiatives. The Trust is an agency ofthat knowledge to contemporary designthe Aga Khan Development Networkprojects. The goals of the program are to(AKDN), a group of agencies founded by Hisimprove the teaching of Islamic art andHighness the Aga Khan that work in thearchitecture - to promote excellence inpoorest parts of Asia and Africa.The Agaadvanced research - to enhance theKhan Development Network focuses onunderstanding of Islamic architecture,health, education, culture, rural develop-urbanism, and visual culture in light ofment, institution-building and the promo-contemporary theoretical, historical,tion of economic development. It is dedicat-critical, and developmental issues -ed to improving living conditions and oppor-and to increase the visibility of Islamictunities for the poor, without regard to theircultural heritage in the modern Muslimfaith, origin or gender.Though their spheresworld. Established in 1979, AKPIA isof activity and expertise differ—rangingsupported by an endowment from Hisfrom social development, to economic devel-Highness the Aga Khan.opment, to culture—AKDN institutionsshare at least three principles that guideAKPIA’s faculty, students, and alumnitheir work.The first is a dedication to self-have played a substantial role insustaining development that can contributeadvancing the practice, analysis, andto long-term economic advancement andunderstanding of Islamic architecturesocial harmony.The second is a commit-as a discipline and cultural force.ment to the vigorous participation of localcommunities in all development efforts.Finally, all Network institutions seek sharedresponsibility for positive change.1
AGA KHAN PROGRAMFOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTUREissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2The Fall 2005“AN EVENING WITH.”MIT Lecture Series2005-2006 AKP Harvard LectureSeries: A Forum for Islamic Art& ArchitectureOCTOBER 3THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9“The Politics of Pleasure: The Strategic Use of“The Allure of Luxury: The Kashmir“Defining Islamic Archaeology”Umayyad Bath Complexes”Shawl in Persia”Marcus Milwright, Assistant Professor,Lara Tohme, Knafel, Assistant Professor in theJeff Spurr, Islamic and Middle East SpecialistDepartment of History in Art, University ofHumanities, Wellesley CollegeAga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture:Victoria, B.C., Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard AgaDocumentation CenterKhan ProgramNovember 14Fine Arts Library, Harvard University“Rethinking the Pleasure Garden in the MunyasTHURSDAY, MARCH 2of Cordoba”THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17“Manuscript Illumination and Illuminators inGlaire Anderson, College Art Association,“Battles of the Blind: The Babri MasjidSafavid Iran”Professional Development FellowDemolition, Media and Political Art in India”Sheila Canby, Assistant Keeper and Curator,Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of theIslamic Art and Antiquities, British MuseumSpecial Event October 29History of Architecture, M.I.T., Department of10 am to 5 pm MIT 6-120ArchitectureWorkshop: “The Mamluk Domes of Cairo”THURSDAY, APRIL 20“Ivory Carving in Medieval Islam”This workshop will gather a group of scholarsTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 8Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor of Artworking on the Mamluk domes of Cairo“Of Castles and Crops: The Agricultural EstateHistory, Pennsylvania State University, Post-alongside a number of MIT faculty andin the Early Islamic Arabian Peninsula anddoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Programresearchers interested in domical structures.Bilad al-Sham”Rebecca Foote, Former Director, The Islamic ArtFor further information, please consult:Society (London) , Post-doctoral Fellow,The AKP Harvard Lecture Series takes placeHarvard Aga Khan Programat Harvard University’s Sackler Museum,http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/page002.htm485 Broadway, Room 318 Cambridge,MA.All events are free and open to the public.Lectures are held on Thursdays at 5:30pmAll events are on Mondays from 5:30and are open to the public. For furtherto 7:30pm in room MIT 3-133information, contact the Aga Khan Programat Harvard University.2
AGA KHAN PROGRAMFOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTUREAKP Harvard Symposiumissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2SYMPOSIUM MAY 11-13 2006Barry Flood, New York University, “Lost inKishwar Rizvi, Barnard College, “Arthur Upham“Historiography and Ideology: ArchitecturalTranslation? Architectural Historiographies ofPope and the Survey of Persian Art: ExploringHeritage of the Lands of Rum”the Eastern ‘Turks’”the Discourses on Iranian Art and Architecturein the Early Twentieth Century”To be held at the American Academy of Arts &Sciences in Cambridge, MassachusettsShirine Hamadeh, Rice University,“Westernization, Decadence, and the OttomanDavid Roxburgh, Harvard University,Organized by Professor Gulru Necipoglu ofBaroque: Modern Constructions of thediscussantHarvard University and Dr. Sibel Bozdogan ofEighteenth Century”Heghnar Watenpaugh, MIT, “The Legacythe Boston Architectural CenterSpeakers and discussants will include:Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University, “Stateof Ottoman Architecture in the FormerBuilding, Globalization, and History in theArab Provinces”Lands of Rum”Nur Altınyıldız, Yıldız University,“Contextualizing the Byzantine and OttomanWendy Meryem Shaw, Kadir Has University,Architectural Legacy: Istanbul in the 1920s“Preservation/Projection: Museums andand 1950s”National Identity in the Republic of Turkey”Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, “‘OurGülru Necipoglu, Harvard University, “TheAnatolia’”: the Making of the ‘HumanistCreation of a National Genius: Sinan and theCulture’ in Turkey”Historiography of ‘Classical’ OttomanArchitecture”Sibel Bozdogan,Boston Architectural Center, “Reading History through Modernist Lenses:Oya Pancaroglu, Oriental Institute, OxfordOttoman Art/Architecture in Early RepublicanUniversity, “Gateways to Medieval Anatolia:Nationalist Texts”Crossing the Impasses of ArchitecturalHistoriography”Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute ofTechnology, discussantScott Redford, Georgetown University and KoçUniversity, “Islamic Archaeology in Turkey”Ahmet Ersoy, BogaziçiUniversity, “Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in theLate Tanzimat Period”3
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYFacultyal-Adab including: Arabism in the Heart ofNasser RabbatUniversity, Sense of Place: Local Loyalty andExpatriate Life, In Defense of Criticism: A Call toUrban Identities in Early Mamluk Syria, StacyArab Critics, and two short stories Abdo andHolden, Department of History, BostonRaqsat al-Tannura (The Dance of Tannura).University, Colonial Romance and MoroccanResponses: Historic Preservation in Fez (1912-37),issuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2In 2004-2005, Nasser Rabbat, Aga KhanNasser is currently working on an edited bookLara Tohme, MIT, HTC/AKPIA, A Re-evaluationProfessor of Islamic Architecture at MIT,of essays on the courtyard house to beof Umayyad Art and Architecture, Glairetaught the following courses: Religiouspublished by Ashgate in 2006, and anotherAnderson MIT, HTC/AKPIA, Umayyad CourtlyArchitecture and Islamic Cultures; Thebook of collected essays on Islamic art inCulture & the Rise of the Cordoban CountryArchitecture of Cairo; Orientalism andFrench, originally delivered at the Institut duEstate (756-1002), and Stephen Wolf, GraduateRepresentation, and Historiography of Islamicmonde arabe (IMA) in Paris in 2003.School of Design, Harvard University, UrbanArchitecture. In his teaching, Nasser tries toPlanning in Early Ottoman Aleppo. Nasser alsoinstill in his students an open-mindedIn May 2005, Nasser organized an internationalserved as external examiner of six architecturalmethod that focuses on cultural hybridity inconference, Islamic Cities in the Classicaldoctorate dissertations at the Politecnico deunderstanding architecture.Age, at MIT. During the year, he gave theBari, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneriafollowing lectures: Toward an InterculturalCivile e dell'Architettura, Bari, Italy.A book he co-edited with Nezar AlSayyad andHistoriography of Islamic Architecture at theIrene Bierman Making Cairo Medieval, wasConference Changing Boundaries: ArchitecturalBeside his ongoing collaboration with thepublished by Lexington Press in the summerHistory in Transition, in Paris; The Dead Cities incultural section at the Institut du mondeof 2005. Nasser also published these scholarlySyria and the Question of Heritage in Aleppo,arabe in Paris, Professor Rabbat is currentlyarticles: The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat andSyria; Writing History in Mamluk Cairo, at theinvolved in a three-year joint project in CairoModern Narratives of Cairo, in Making CairoUniversity of Chicago, and Toward a Criticalbetween the IFAO (Institut FrançaisMedieval; Documenting Buildings in the WaqfHistoriography of Islamic Architecture, at thed’Archéologie Orientale) and the AmericanSystem, in Thresholds 28); and IslamicInstitute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsResearch Center in Egypt. He is also designingArchitecture as a Field of Historical Inquiry, inin London. He delivered the keynote lecture,a long-term collaboration with the newAD Architectural Design, Special IssueThe Urban Character of Mamluk Architecturedirector of the Islamic and Coptic studiesIslam Architecture. Other publicationsin Cairo: The Example of al-Darb al-Ahmar, atsection at the IFAO, Sylvie Denoix, in Cairo,include A Mosque and an Imperial Dream, inthe American Research Center in Egypt, 2005in addition to various short-term projectsal-Ahram Weekly, (18-24 August 2005);Annual Meeting in Cambridge, MA.with several MIT architectural faculty.“Foreword,” to Adonis, A Time between Ashesand Roses, translated from the Arabic byFive Ph.D. dissertations he advised orShawkat M. Toorawa. He also published aco-advised were completed in 2005: Zaydenumber of essays in Arabic in MajallatAntrim, Department of History, Harvard4
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYFacultyHeghnar spent time in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,France, Italy and Egypt participating in conferences and conducting research. Her essay,Heghnar WatenpaughDeviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and theConstruction of Antinomian Piety in Ottomanissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Heghnar is the Aga Khan Career DevelopmentAleppo, will appear in the InternationalProfessor in the History, Theory and CriticismJournal of Middle East Studies 37:4 (Novembersection of the Department of Architecture at2005). In Fall 2005, Heghnar is teaching athe Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Inseminar on “Histories and Theories ofJuly 2005, she was promoted to AssociateArchitectural Preservation.” This graduateProfessor of the History of Architecture. Inseminar addresses the critical issues involvedaddition to early modern Islamic architecturalin the practice of preserving architecturalhistory, her research addresses the preserva-forms from the past. Concepts such astion and commodification of architecture, and“Tradition,”“Heritage,”“Patrimony,” andtheir relationship to modernity, colonialism,“Monument” are examined in the context ofand nationalism in the modern Islamic world.debates on memory, the historical imagination, the variable meaning of the visible past,Heghnar was awarded a National Endowmentimperial and national identities. These issuesfor the Humanities Grant as well as a J. Paulare considered in relation to the contemporaryGetty Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Historyglobal tourist industry and its implications forof Art and the Humanities, which allowed herthe conceptualization and the commodifica-to go on leave in 2004-2005 to work on hertion of “traditional” environments.second book, Ruins into Monuments:Preservation, Nationalism and the Constructionof Heritage in the Modern Middle East. Thisproject engages in the contentious debateabout cultural heritage and nationalism inthe modern Middle East by focusing on thepolitics of architectural preservation in Syriaunder French colonial rule, 1920-1946.5
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPost-doctoral FellowsStudentsPaolo Girardelliissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Mahmoud HawariAzra AksamijaPaolo Girardelli is an assistant professor in theDr. Hawari has joined AKPIA as a postdoctoralAzra is an artist and architect based inHistory Department of Bogaziçi(Bosphorus) fellow for the academic year 2005-06. He justCambridge, Massachusetts. She has been anUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his Ph.D.completed the first year of the 3-yearAKP Ph.D. student since the fall of 2004. Bornin History of Architecture from the University ofAbduljawad Fellowship at the Khalili Researchin Sarajevo in 1976,Azra graduated from theNaples Federico II, with a thesis focusing on theCentre for the Art and Material Culture of theFaulty of Architecture at the TechnicalItalian presence in the architecture and urbanMiddle East, University of Oxford. Currently,University in Graz, Austria, in 2001 and fromstructure of late Ottoman Istanbul. His publica-Dr. Hawari is working on a research project:Princeton University in 2004. Her work hastions include articles and proceedings on west-The Citadel of Jerusalem, and Archaeologicalbeen widely published and exhibited in suchern perceptions of Ottoman architecture, on theand Architectural Study. His previous researchvenues as the Generali Foundation Viennamulticultural environments of Istanbul and(Ph.D. thesis) dealt with the architecture of(2002), the Valencia Biennial (2003), the BerlinAyyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250).Art Fair (2003), the Graz Biennial of Media andththAlexandria in the 19 and early 20 century, aswell as on the contribution of Italian andArchitecture (2003), the Gallery forLevantine architects and patrons to the trans-Contemporary Art Leipzig (2003), and theformation of Istanbul on the eve of modernity.Liverpool Biennial (2004).Paolo’s forthcoming article on Muqarnas XXII,She is currently working on her pre-disserta-based largely on materials from the archives oftion research about the contemporary IslamicPropaganda Fide, is a contextual reading ofarchitecture of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovinacross-cultural influences, including the role ofand the communication of Islam in WesternArmenian converts to Catholicism in the archi-Europe and the United States.tecture of the Catholic establishments in Istanbul. His graduate courses at BogaziçiUniversity focus on issues of identity and spaceproduction in the eastern Mediterranean regionduring the past two centuries, while hisresearch at MIT will be a critical evaluation ofthe role of diplomacy in shaping the builtenvironment of Istanbul, in the context of theso-called “Eastern Question”.6
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYStudentsSaima Akhtarissuea k pa ikat coctober 2004AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Dalia al-HusseiniGlaire D. AndersonSaima is a first year SMArchS student whoseDalia is a first year SMArchS student. Her inter-Glaire D. Anderson recently completed hermajor focus lies in using the Islamically influ-ests lie in exploring cultural and social factors,Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism ofenced areas of Spain as a model of the cross-their effect on the built environment, and theirArchitecture at MIT. Her dissertation, Theroads between the East and West. Her particu-role in providing more responsive and viableSuburban Villa (munya) and Court Culture inlar interest is in studying the cultural syncretismsolutions within urban contexts, particularlyUmayyad Cordoba: 756-976 CE, explores thethat was established by the Moors in the 8thwithin the context of contemporary Islamicvilla culture of tenth-century al-Andalus fromcentury, and how this relatively pluralisticsociety and community development.architectural, landscape, and social history perspectives. Anderson is interested in the histori-society became a great resource for passing onIslamic traditions to modern day SpanishShe graduated with a Bachelor of Science inography of Islamic art, links between antiquityculture and architecture.Architecture from the University of Jordan inand Islam, non-Muslim perceptions of Islamic2001, and completed internship work with KEOarchitecture, and the Islamic architecture of theSaima graduated from the University ofInternational Consultants in Kuwait. She held aPhilippines. She has received awards from theMichigan with Bachelor of Science degreesresearch position at the Building ResearchCollege Art Association, the Society ofin both Architecture and Psychology in 2003.Center of the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan,Architectural Historians, the Samuel H. KressUpon graduation, she conducted researchwhere she worked on the Jerusalem DatabaseFoundation, and the Barakat Foundation.with the Academy of Neuroscience forProject. For the past three years she served as aAnderson has taught at Dartmouth CollegeArchitecture in Washington, D.C., and workedresearch and coordination officer at the Centerand Brandeis University and contributed toin a residential architecture firm shortlyfor the Study of the Built Environment inThresholds, the Chicago Art Journal, andthereafter. The tentative year of completionAmman, Jordan.Routledge’s Medieval Islamic Civilization:for her current degree is 2007.An Encyclopedia.She is currently writing a book based onher dissertation and co-editing New Researchon the Art and Archaeology of al-Andaluswith Mariam Rosser-Owen of the Victoria andAlbert Museum.7
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYStudentsBarbara Ciprianiissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Mohamed ElshahedRazan FrancisBarbara graduated with a Master of Science inMohamed is a SMArchS student who is interestedRazan Francis is an architect and a beginningArchitecture, in June 2005. She is interested inin the role of nostalgia and historicism inPh.D. candidate at MIT. She obtained her under-the assessment, conservation and mastercontemporary Egyptian culture and architecture.graduate degree in architecture at the Technionplanning of cultural heritage sites. In pursuitOther interests include the role of tourism in– Israel Institute of Technology- Haifa. Sheof these interests, Barbara completed twochanging the urban experience of the Middlereceived a Fulbright scholarship in 2001-2003semesters of Arabic language at Harvard. HerEast. He completed his Bachelor of Architectureand completed her Master’s in Architecturalprevious professional degree was in architec-from the New Jersey Institute of TechnologyDesign at Cornell University. Her thesisture from the University Institute ofwhere he took numerous courses focusing onexplored the relation between architecture andArchitecture in Venice, Italy, focused on the re-history, theory and criticism of architecture,avant-garde music. In 2004 she obtained herplanning and upgrading of a dense urban set-including a course by Zeynep Celik, for whichMaster’s degree in Architectural History andtlement in Beirut, Lebanon.he conducted a semester-long research focusingTheory at McGill University.on Port Said, Ismailia and Suez in the lateBarbara’s final thesis at AKPIA entitled Thenineteenth century. After studying in Siena,Her dissertation research aims to explore theEsthetic Aims behind the Development ofItaly, for one semester, he returned to Italy todramatic shift that architecture and the roleConstruction Techniques in Cairene Mamlukwork on the restoration project in Calabria ledof the architect underwent during theMausolea will focus on the Mamluk mausleaby Legambiante.Renaissance by retracing its deep and hiddenorigins within Arabic Medieval thinking thatcomplexes in Cairo. She will analyse the aesthetic aims behind the evolution of the con-Mohamed has a wide variety of experiencesemerged in Andalusian Spain, particularlystruction techniques in Mamluk times and,including working for the Jersey City Housingduring the eleventh and twelfth centuries.through this understanding, will investigateAuthority on community housing and recentlyThis is especially true of that thoughtthe correct ways of preserving, valorizing andfor the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude on theirconcerning itself with the imagination and itspresenting such buildings, both for the bene-work the Gates in Central Park, New York City.acquisition of a new influential dimensionfit of the local inhabitants and also for a bet-pertinent to architectural discourse and leadingter understanding by foreigners. Barbarato a view of the architect as magus –one whospent a summer internship in the Culturalconveys knowledge through conjunction andHeritage Unit of an Italian consulting firm inalignment with the divine world and theRome working on projects responding tomagical imagination.World Bank bids for the revitalization of WorldHeritage Sites.8
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYStudentsTalinn Grigorissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Pamela KarimiMichele LamprakosTalinn Grigor received her Ph.D., Cultivat(ing)Pamela Karimi is a third-year Ph.D. student inIn the final year of the Ph.D program, MicheleModernities: the Society for National Heritage,AKPIA@MIT. Her major focus is on Modern Iranianis an architect (U. C. Berkeley, 1991) with a B.A.Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture inarchitecture as it relates to issues of gender andin Near Eastern Studies (Princeton, 1983). HerTwentieth-Century Iran, in February 2005.sexuality and to political processes. Since springinterests in history, architecture, and buildingCurrently she is the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral2004, several travel grants from the Aga Khan,practice led her to focus on conservation atFellow at Cornell University where she isAvelon, Kelly-Douglas, and Hyzen FoundationsMIT. She supplemented her program inrevising her dissertation for publication. Duringhave allowed her to do primary archival researchHistory, Theory and Criticism with coursework2003-05, she was the Ittleson Predoctoralfor her dissertation project. She has taught sum-in the Graduate Program for HistoricFellow at the Center for Advanced Study in themer courses at the Hagop Kevorkian Center inPreservation, University of Pennsylvania.Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art.New York University and led seminars and lectureson the history of art and architecture in JerusalemMichele spent last year in Yemen conducting fieldHer recent publications include Preserving theand the Middle East at the 2004 and 2005 Newwork for her dissertation, which is entitledModern Antique: Persepolis ‘71, Future Anterior:Jersey Scholars Programs.Conservation and Building Practice in a WorldHeritage City: the Case of Sana’a. Her metholodogyJournal of Historical Preservation HistoryTheory Criticism, Columbia University 2/1Pamela has also initiated several Middle Easterndraws from architecture, history, anthropology,(Summer 2005): 22-29; (re)Framingfilm series and served as the student counciland conservation; the interdisciplinary nature ofModernit(ies): American Historians of Iranianmember of the Society for Iranian Studies. Herthe study is reflected in the composition of herArchitecture, Phyllis Ackerman and Arthurrecent publications include Policymaking andcommittee, which includes an anthropologist andPope, ARRIS: Journal of the Southeast ChapterHousekeeping: President Truman’s Point IV Programa conservator. Her fieldwork in Yemen was sup-of the Society of Architectural Historians 15and Making of the Modern Iranian House, inported by Fulbright-Hays and the Social Sciences(September 2004): 38-54; and reCultivatingThresholds,Vol. 30. Her expected graduation dateResearch Council.This year she has been writing“Good Taste”: the early Pahlavi Modernists andis fall of 2009.the dissertation, and also conducted additionaltheir Society for National Heritage, Journalresearch in Sana’a and Paris, at UNESCO and theof Iranian Studies 37/1 (March 2004): 17-45.World Heritage Center. She has been supportedShe will be chairing the panel on ‘Race andthis year by grants from the American AssociationArchitecture in the Colonial Non-West’ duringof University Women, the Graham Foundation,andthe upcoming SAH annual meeting.the Barakat Foundation.An article based on herdissertation was recently published in TraditionalDwellings and Settlements Review (spring 2005).9
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYStudentsMelanie Michailidisissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Omar RabiePhilippe SaadMelanie Michailidis is a Ph.D. candidate whoseOmar Rabie graduated in 2000 from thePhilippe graduated with a masters of Sciencemain research focuses on the early Islamic funer-Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Finein Architecture from the Aga Khan Program atary architecture of Iran and Central Asia.Arts in Cairo. He is currently a degree candidate inthe Departmentof Architecture atMIT in MayMelanie's dissertation, Landmarks of the Persianthe Master of Science in Architecture program at2003. His thesis investigated the tradition ofRenaissance: Monumental Funerary ArchitectureMIT. As an architect he has participated in a fewlooking at Alexandria, Egypt with classicalin Iran and Central Asia, Tenth to Eleventhinternational design competitions and won theeyes. He studied the city’s classical heritageCenturies, studies the sudden proliferation ofgrand prize in the International Union ofdescriptions and engravings made by 18thmausolea for secular rulers of Iranian descent inArchitects (UIA) “Architecture and Water” compe-century European travelers, while attenuatingthe 10-11th centuries. It addresses how they drewtition. His design for The Grand Egyptianthe importance of eleven centuries of Islamicon the pre-Islamic past in new and specific waysMuseum was selected as a distinctive designrule and commercial prosperity.reflecting the different historical circumstancesand was featured in the competition’s officialof Iran and Central Asia. Historians of architec-publication. His design for the World TradeBefore joining the Aga Program at MIT,ture have often noted that certain features seenCenter Memorial International Competition wasPhilippe earned his Bachelor of Architecturein these mausolea have some vague connectionselected as one of ten designs to be shown infrom the American University in Beirut inwith the pre-Islamic past, but this connectionthe New York Times. He has been a jury member2000 and graduated as valedictorian. Hehas never been precisely defined or explained;in a few international competitions organized byworked for three years in a leading architec-this dissertation argues that the cultural dynam-the UIA, including urban plans for a sustainabletural firm in Lebanon where he coordinatedics which resulted in particular architecturalresidential complex in Guanajuato in Mexicoseveral design project teams and supervisedforms were very different in these two regions.(2002), Hagar Qim and Najdra Heritage Parkconstruction sites. Alongside A.U.B.facultyDevelopment in Malta (2004), and Extreme inmembers, Philippe researched the city ofIstanbul (2005).Tripoli and the Mamluk architecture ofMelanie has conducted fieldwork in Iran in summer 2003 with an Aga Khan Travel Grant, and inLebanon. He also studied traditional architec-Uzbekistan with a Fulbright-IIE Grant in 2005.While at MIT, Omar is focusing on the contribu-tural elements in contemporary buildings inShe is currently in her first year of the Ittlesontion of architecture to the life of the majority, theBeirut. Philippe currently works as a designerFellowship from the Center for Advanced Studiespoor. Along with other students, he representedin a Boston based architecture firm. He contin-in the Visual Arts. Melanie expects to completeMIT in USAID, after the MIT/GSD workshop:Theues his research on the problems of housing inher dissertation by spring 2007.Tsunami Challenge: After the Tent. He also partic-historic cities, and 19th and 20th centuryipated in a project about environmental andpictorial and literary representations of cities.affordable alternative construction techniquesusing rammed earth.10
AGA KHAN PROGRAMAT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYStudentsLara Tohmeissuea k pa ikat coctober 2005AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE2Deniz TurkerLara Tohme completed her Ph.D. dissertation,Deniz Turker begins the SMArchS AKPIA pro-Out of Antiquity: Umayyad Baths in Context,gram this year, immediately after receiving ain August 2005. She is currently the KnafelB.A. in the History of Art from Yale College, SheAssistant Professor in the Humanities in thewill continue researching and writing on theArt Department at Wellesley College whereshared architectonics between And
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