March 13 Contemporary Architecture in the Islamic World Raj Rewal
Architect, New Delhi, India
March 27 Applying Landscape Theory to the Arab Mediterranean World Attilio Petruccioli
Former AKPIA Director and Associate Professor of Design
School of Architecture Politechnico di Bari
April 3 Strengthening Local Government and Decentralizing Development: Evaluation of the Palestine Rural Development Program Farokh Afshar
Associate Professor at the School of Rural Planning and Development, University of Guelph
Contemporary Libyan Architecture: Possibilities vs. Realities Intisar Azzuz
Independent Scholar
May 1 Validation and Change: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Suha Ozkan
Secretary General of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
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October 18 Seeing Others, Seeing Ourselves Caroline Williams
College of William and Mary
November 1 David Roberts and Francis Frith:
Artist and Photographer in 19th Century Egypt Irvin Schick
Harvard University
November 22 Barbarians in Arab Eye: Self, Place, and the Discourse of Alterity Aziz el-Azmeh
Columbia University
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February 8 Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences Bernard O’Kane
The American University in Cairo
Director, the Monumental Epigraphy Project (MEP) in Cairo
February 22 Between Convivencia and Cultural Genocide Jerrilynn Dodds
School of Architecture, City College CUNY
March 13 Picturing Thermal Comfort in Vernacular Architecture Murray Milne
Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA
April 26 Time and Order in Isfahan: Urban Reform Under the Safavid Ruler Shah Abbas I (1587-1629) Nuha Khoury
Department of History of Art and Architecuture and Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program, UCSB
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October 5
Roundtable Discussion: From the Personal to the Public: An Individual Experience in
Restoring Traditional Buildings Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah
Director, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, Kuwait
With David Friedman, Attilio Petruccioli, Nasser Rabbat
October 14 The Status of Iranian Architecture in the 20th Century Seyed Aliakbar Saremi
Architect
November 4 The Rehabilitation of the Old City of Ghadames: A Comprehensive Action Plan Samir Abdulac
Architect and UNESCO Consultant
November 23 Architecture and the Public Realm: Lessons in the Ethical Dimension from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Azim Nanji
Dean, Institute for Isma'ili Studies, London
November 30 A Short Overview of Modern Bosnian Architecture: Building the Idea of the Particular in the Universal Adnan Pasic
Visiting Scholar, Sarajevo
December 7 Value Systems in Architecture: The Case of the Aga Khan Architectural Awards
Mustafa Pultar
Visiting Scholar, Turkey
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February 25 The Sacred is Not the Divine: Human Nature and Spritual Traditions Loyal Rue
Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
February 27 Sacred Sources of Indian Traditions Edwin Bryant
Harvard University
March 4 Lahore, A City Within Samina Qureshi
Sheppard and Qureshi Associates
March 9 Roundtable: Preserving the Urban Moroccan Heritage Said Mouline
Architect & Historical Preservationist, Ministry of Housing, Rabat, Morocco
March 11 The Divine in Mughal Paintings Rochelle Kessler
Sackler Museum, Harvard University
March 12 2,500 Years After Homer: A Living Oral Tradition from the Arab World Dwight Reynolds
UCSB
March 18 Sacred Landscapes of India Jan Pieper
Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany
March 20 Ritual Spaces of Sufi Shrines Omar Khalidi
MIT
April 1 Architecture and Ritual Movement at the Safavid Court of Isfahan Mahvash Alemi
University of Pescara, Italy
April 3 Muharram Rites in Trinidad
Frank Korom
Museum of New Mexico
April 8 Architecture and Function of the Great Imambara of Lucknow Peter Chelkowski
New York University
April 13 Problem of Representation in the Art of the Alhambra Valerie Gonzalez
Ecole d'Architecture de Marseille-Luminy
April 15 Images of the Divine: The Tombs of Saints and the Mausolea of Kings Catherine Asher
University of Minnesota
April 20 A Practical Method of Teaching Geometry to the Architect - Artisan in the Medieval Islamic City Alpay Özdural
Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cypress
April 22 On the Intangibles of Islamic Architecture Gulzar Haider
Carleton University
April 28 Preservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage: A Societal Problem Francoise Choay
Universite la Sorbonne
April 29 Shi'i Symbolism in History and Art Noman ul-Haq
Rutgers University
April 29
Roundtable Discussion: Urban Preservation and Historic Value
Francoise Choay, Stanford Anderson, John de Monchaux, David Friedman, Attilio Petruccioli, William Porter, Nasser Rabbat
May 2
Roundtable Discussion: The Sacred in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism Rupinder Singh (Corbu's Chandigarh) Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (In the Works of Correa and Doshi) Shakeel Hossain ("Rubanism" - The New Ethnic Urban)
May 6 Contemporary Mosques: Identity and Symbols Hasan Uddin-Khan
MIT
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September 24 Kumbakonam: A Sacred and Royal City of South India Vivek Nanda
University of Cambridge
October 23 Detachment and Fixity: The Question of Identity in Arab/Islamic Architecture Samer Akkach
University of Adelaide, Australia
October 27 Provincial Architecture in Islamic Egypt Doris Abouseif
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
October 29 From Mohenjadaro to Shujabad: The Grand Tradition of Urban Planning in Pakistan Abdul Rehman
School of Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan
October 30 Thoughts on a Late Medieval Design Scroll from Iran: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (sponsored by HTC) Gulru Necipoglu
Harvard Aga Khan Professor
November 5 History and Restoration: Reflections on the Negotiation of Neglect Sawkat Toorawa
Department of Humanities, University of Mauritius
December 3 Mario Ridolfi's Manifesto on Construction Claudio Damato
December 12
Roundtable Discussion: Sustainable Heritage: A Round Table on Culture, Preservation and Development: The Dead Cities of the Limestone Massif (Syria)
Attilio Petruccioli, Reinhard Goethert, Stanford Anderson, David Friedman, Dennis Frenchman, Nasser Rabbat, Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania), Thomas Leisten (Princeton University), Linda Schilcher (University of Arkansas), Frank McGuire (Frank McGuire AIA, Boston)
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February 19 Understanding Earthen Architecture: An Introduction to Technology and Typology Between Tradition and Innovation Mauro Bertagnin
University of Udine
February 26 Cities on the Zaravshan River (Central Asia): An Outline of Urban Development Before and During the First Centuries of Islam Aleksandr Naymark
Indiana University
March 19 The Conservation of Medieval Islamic Structures at Isfahan (Iran) Eugenio Galdieri
University of Rome
April 4 A Settlement History of the Murghab Delta in Turkmen Islam Maurizio Tosi
University of Bologna
April 30 Women in Architecture: Patronage and Place in Pre-Modern Iran Renata Holod
University of Pennsylvania
April 14 Architecture and Imperial Ideology in the Illustrated History of Shahjahan Ebba Koch University of Vienna
The Beliefs, Rituals, Art and Architecture of Shi'a Islam in India Shakeel Hussain
Visiting Scholar
Mostar 2004 Amir Pasic
Visiting Scholar
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December 2 The Traditional Arab City and Problems of its Preservation Andre Raymond
University of Aix-en-Provence
Tangiers: A Cosmopolitan City Susan Miller
Harvard University
The Urban Development of Ottoman Istanbul Maurice Cerasi
University of Genoa
September
Conference: Urban Triumph or Urban Disaster? Dilemmas of Contemporary Post-War Reconstruction
Organized by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth
October
Roundtable Discussion: From Antiquity to Islam in the Cities of al-Andalus and al-Mashriq
Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Attilio Petruccioli
November
Conference: Bukhara: The Myth and the Architecture
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli Proceedings
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April Conference: Rethinking the XIXth Century Town: The Morphogenesis of the Urban Fabric
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
With: Jeremy Whitehand and Karl Kropf, the University of Birmingham, UK; Hidenobu Jinnai, Hosei University, Japan; Pierre Pinon, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-La Defense; Jean Castex, Ecole d'Architecture de Versailles; Guiseppe Strappa, University of Bari, Italy; Sylvain Malfroy, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Anne Vernez-Moudon, University of Washington, Seattle; Erick Valle, University of Miami; Michael Conzen, University of Chicago; Brenda Scheer, University of Miami, Cincinnati; and Julian Beinart, Stanford Anderson, Roy Strickland, Aga Khan Professor Attilio Petruccioli, and John Habraken of MIT. Proceedings |
November
Roundtable discussion: From Classic to Arab Cities: Urbanism in the Levant During the Medieval Period
Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Attilio Petruccioli
With: Irene Bierman UCLA, Renata Holod UPenn, Thomas Leisten Princeton, Scott Redford Georgetown and MIT Professors Stanford Anderson, Nassar Rabbat & Attilio Petruccioli.
November
Conference: Expressions of Identity: The Architecture of Islamic Centers in North America
Organized Hasan-Uddin Khan
With: Jerrilyn Dodds NYU, Renata Holod UPenn, Syed Gulzar Haider Carleton University, Akel Kahera Princeton, Latif Abdul Malik Princeton. From MIT: Sibel Bozdogan, Nassar Rabbat,Attilio Petruccioli, Omar Khalidi, Khalil Pirani, and Hasan-Uddin Khan. Architects: Mokhless Al-Hariri, Michael Keselica, Javed Sultan, Richard Shepard, Anwar Hossain, Ilhan Zeybekoglu, Javid Malek.
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March
Conference: Typological Process and Design Theory
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
With:Serge Santelli; Giuseppe Strappa, the University of Bari, Italy; Karl Kropf, University of Birmingham; Anne Vernez Moudon, University of Washington; Maurice Cerasi; Francesco Giovanetti, Municipality of Rome; and Giancarlo Cataldi, University of Florence. Professor Petruccioli presented at both conferences. Proceedings
May
Roundtable discussion: The Preservation and Developments of the Moroccan Medina: The Case of Essaouira
Sponsored by the AKP and the Moroccan Studies Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Lecture Series:
Casbah and Medina: Islamic Towns of the Mediterranean Amir Pasic
Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, Istanbul Susan Miller
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University Serge Santelli
School of Architecture at Paris-Belleville André Raymond
University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence Maurice Cerasi
University of Genoa
Other Lectures
Beliefs, Rituals, Art, and Architecture of Popular Islam: Muharram in India Shakeel Hossain
AKP Visiting Scholar
Mohamed Fawzi Zniber
Moroccan architect
Latifa Chouider
Algerian architect
Enrico Genovesi
University of Rome
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November
Conference: From Place to Type: Theory and Design of Gardens during the Time of Great Muslim Empires
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
Proceedings in January 1997 as a special issue of Muqarnas
With: Jim Wescoat, University of Colorado; Mirka Benes, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Robert D. McChesney, New York University; Maria Eva Subtelny, University of Toronto; John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania; Mahvash Alemi; Ebba Koch, University of Vienna; D. Fairchild Ruggles and Claudia Lazzaro, Cornell University; and Aga Khan Professor Gülru Necipoglu, Harvard University.
Lectures
Jan Pieper
Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany
Mahvash Alemi
University of Rome
Ivor Samuels
Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brooke University
Abdullah Hanna
Damascus and Aleppo Universities
Heinz Gaube
Orientalisches Seminar der Universität Tübingen, Germany
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