Aga Khan Program at MIT

Congratulations to our alum, Jateen Lad, who was awarded a prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects International Award for Excellence 2024 for his Sharanam Centre for Rural Development in south India.
This award is considered one of architecture’s highest global accolades, celebrating buildings from around the world that demonstrate visionary thinking, design excellence and social impact.
The judges praised the project’s “exceptional beauty, functionality and tranquillity” and consider it “a world class exemplar for the future of low cost, innovative and green community buildings.”
Images available at the following links: www.jateenlad.com
Sharanam Centre for Rural Development (architecture.com)

Jateen Lad Architect Jateen Lad is an award-winning architect based in Manchester and Pondicherry, India, recognised for a holistic approach to design and construction and his sustainable development projects including the Sharanam Centre for Rural Development.

The International Journal of Islamic Architecture and its Award Jury are pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award: Award Winner Roberto Fabbri,
‘The Contextual Linkage: Visual Metaphors and Analogies in Recent Gulf Museums’ Architecture’,
The Journal of Architecture 27: 2-3, 2022, pp. 372–97.
https://www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../13602365.2021.2018479

Check out a newly published interview with Professor Nasser Rabbat in “What happened to the Arab City? MEMO in Conversation with Nasser Rabbat”. Link to the text and video here:

What happened to the Arab City? MEMO in Conversation with Nasser Rabbat The Arab world of yesteryear had cities abuzz with sounds, schools, mosques and places to learn and improve. Now these cities have dropped in importance and become dirty and congested...

Check out a newly published interview with Professor Nasser Rabbat in “What happened to the Arab City: MEMO in Conversation with Nasser Rabbat”. Link to the text and video here:

What happened to the Arab City? MEMO in Conversation with Nasser Rabbat The Arab world of yesteryear had cities abuzz with sounds, schools, mosques and places to learn and improve. Now these cities have dropped in importance and become dirty and congested...

Prof. Huma Gupta will be giving a public lecture on “Writing Architectural History from Below” which presents the theoretical framework and research methodology for her book project ‘The Architecture of Dispossession’ at the University of Copenhagen on April 23rd at 3:00pm. This lecture is organized by the Landscape Architecture and Planning Department. Location: Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Von Langen (room). For more information, see: https://ign.ku.dk/english/calender/2024/public-lecture-writing-architectural-history-from-below/

CMES welcomes
April 19 for the 2024 Husni Haddad Memorial Lecture. For remote access, please register: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErc-6qqzsvH9CyZCXD155ntdjgk18EcrvF…CMES welcomes@nasserrabbat

Join us on Friday, April 12 in Room 7-338 (the Stella Room) at MIT’s Dept. of Architecture from 3 to 6 pm for a discussion of the Dongola Architecture Series and its latest publication “Critical Encounters” All are welcome. See the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBlgcBAEl0&t=1776s

Call for Applications
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to
four postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2024/2025 for the research
program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME).
Closing Date: 8 April 2024, 12.00 noon (CEST) / Location: Berlin, Germany. (Click below).

EUME CfA 2024-25.pdf

Check out our AKPIA Spring 2024 Lecture Series poster! Lectures will be held in MIT Room 3-133 at 6pm, with the exception of Léopold Lambert's lecture which will be held in the Long Lounge.

Professor Nasser Rabbat presents “The Trajectory of Islamic Architectural History” Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent on February 22nd at 8 am EST Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/84092748262?… Meeting ID: 840 9274 8262 Passcode: 0eB

February 22nd at 8am EST, join Professor Nasser Rabbat as he presents, "The Trajectory of Islamic Architectural History" for the Institute of Architects Pakistan's Global Learning Series: by IAP-Karachi Chapter* Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84092748262?pwd=ztT8zoolPLQLDbFZ7WD28eHGg9FZLW.1 Meeting ID: 840 9274 8262 Passcode: 0eBAUt

Professor Nasser Rabbat presents “The Trajectory of Islamic Architectural History” House on February, 22nd at 8pm (PKT).

The two recent books on the historian Al-Maqrizi by Prof. Nasser Rabbat.

Prof. Nasser Rabbat lecturing on the historian Al-Maqrizi on the occasion of the publication of his Arabic book on him at the Bayt Al-Sinnari in Cairo on January 27, 2024.

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo.
https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=171376

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo.

The American University in Cairo Job Posting: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture The American University in Cairo Job Posting: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture

MIT Professor Nasser Rabbat’s course 4.616 Islamic Visual Culture Through the Lens of Late Antiquity will be offered Spring 2024.