Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lecture & Events (Spring 1990- Spring 2000)

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Spring 2000	Fall 1999
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	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
Spring 1999	Fall 1998
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	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
Spring 1998	Fall 1997
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	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)
Spring 1997	Fall 1996
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	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
Spring 1996	Fall 1995
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.
Spring 1995	Fall 1994
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	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
Spring 1994	Spring 1990
March Conference: Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey Organized by Sibel Bozdogan Book from the University of Washington Press, 1997	April Conference: Informal Colloquium on the Relationship of Islamic Thought and Cultural Expression With: Janet Abu Lughoi, Carl Brown, Muhsin Mahdi, Annemarie Schimmel, Bassam Tibi, Oleg Grabar, Ronald Lewcock, Nader Ardalan, Oleg Grabar, Gulru Necipoglu, Luo Xiaowdi