UNLESS NOTED LECTURES ARE AT 6 PM ON MONDAYS AND IN ROOM 3-133
March 20 Something Else is Possible Vivien Sansour Founder and Director of Palestine Heirloom Seed Library In person only, will not be accessible remotely. Register here.
April 10 Ottoman Tour d’Europe: Architecture, Urbanism, and Late Ottoman Travelogues Semra Horuz AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow In person only, will not be accessible remotely. Register here.
April 24 at 12:30 pm Against the Regime of Emptiness Samia Henni Cornell University Via zoom only. Register here.
Thursday, May 4 in room 7-429 (Long Lounge) Part of the Department of Architecture Lecture Series Wetland: A Future Vernacular Wael al-Awar Nominee Principal of WaiWai Design, curator of UAE National Pavilion 2021, winner of Golden Lion with Kenichi Teramoto Aired simultaneously on YouTube. Register here.
(CANCELLED) May 15 The Sultan’s Architect Called Home: Raimondo D’Aronco Between Turkey and Italy Sharon Smith AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UPON REGISTRATION.
CANCELLED Everyday Life in the “Spectacular” City: Making Home in Dubai Rana AlMutawa Social Sciences Division NYU Abu Dhabi Abstract/Bio
FOR THE LECTURES BELOW, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED ONLY FOR NON-MIT ATTENDEES. MONDAYS AT 6 PM IN ROOM 3-133.
October 3 The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction Namita Dharia Architect and Socio-Cultural Anthropologist Rhode Island School of Design Abstract/Bio
October 24 Disembodied Territoriality or how to be displaced from where you have never been? Menna Agha Architect and Researcher Azrieli School of Architecture, Carleton University Abstract/Bio
November 14 City as a Geofact Todd Reisz Architect and Writer Amsterdam Abstract/Bio
November 21 ‘Improve and Reform Them’: Manufacturing Citizenship and Goods in the Vocational School of Late Ottoman Baghdad Lydia Harrington Historian AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Abstract/Bio
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Monday, February 28 at 6 pm. From Sectarian to Muslim Ecumenicalism: Changing Contours of Muslim Sacred Landscape in 19th Century Kashmir Hakim Sameer Hamdani AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Bio/AbstractVIDEO
Monday, April 4 at 6 pm in room 3-133 The Profession’s Vanguards: Arab Architects in Mandate Jerusalem Nadi Abusaada AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Bio/Abstract
CONFERENCE
Saturday, April 30 in room 56-154. The Profession’s Foundations:Architects and Architecture in the Modern Middle East MANDATORY REGISTRATION HERE In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has emerged within the field of architectural studies that has sought to revisit existing Western-centric paradigms and explore new terrains for understanding architectural history and the present. By emphasizing the ‘global mobilities’ underpinning the transfer of architectural concepts, models, and skills throughout the twentieth century, scholars have expanded the historiography of modern architecture and urban planning into a more comprehensive global history. Nonetheless, this global history remains predominantly written through the experiences of colonial and foreign architects and planners and their influences on the rest of the world during the twentieth century. Contrarily, this workshop invites participants to explore the undocumented histories of the emergence of a local class of professional architects and planners in the Global South. Focusing on the Middle East, it aims to trace the thought, practice, and vision of the milieu of local architects, engineers and planners who contributed to the transnational exchange of technical expertise and the flow of architectural knowledge, experiences, and imageries both regionally and globally during the twentieth century.
October 4 at 6 pm Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel Assistant Professor in Anthropology Director of Undergraduate Studies Rice University Bio/Abstract VIDEO
November 15 at 6 pm Fischer von Erlach to Banister Fletcher: Writing Islam into the World’s Architectural History Sussan Babaie Professor of Islamic and Iranian Art and Architecture The Courtauld Institute of Art University of London Bio/Abstract VIDEO
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Thursday, March 4, 6:00 PM (EST) Surveying Modern Architecture: The Case of Cairo Mohamed Elshahed Independent Curator and author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide This presentation also is part of the Department of Architecture’s lecture series. Bio/Abstract VIDEO RECORDING
Monday, April 12, 6:00 PM (EST) Lived Heritage and the Sacred Topography of Harar Jugol, Ethiopia Michelle Moore Apotsos Department of Art Williams College Bio/Abstract VIDEO RECORDING
Monday, May 10, 6:00 PM (EST) The Place of Africa, in Theory Shaden M. Tageldin Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature University of Minnesota Bio/Abstract
Monday, September 21, 6 PM (EST) Tangier at the Crossroads: Memories of Cosmopolitanism and Dreams of Technological Modernity Michael A Toler Archnet Content Manager Aga Khan Documentation Center (AKDC@MIT) MIT Libraries Bio & Abstract
Thursday, November 12, 6 PM (EST) Elusive Things: Materialities and Spatialities in the Vicinity of Nigér Ikem Stanley Okoye Associate Professor Art History Department – Africana Department, University of Delaware This lecture is presented in conjuction with the MIT Department of Architecture Lecture series. Bio & Abstract VIDEO RECORDING
Monday, November 16, 6 PM (EST) Negotiating Uncertainty in an Accra Zongo Emily Anne Williamson PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology Boston University Bio & Abstract
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
February 10
Durability through Verse: Palace Building and Poetry at Abbasid Samarra Matt Saba Visual Resources Librarian, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT
February 24 Architecture in Dialogue: The Aga Khan Award in its Fourteenth Cycle Farrokh Derakhshani Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Lecture to be followed by a panel discussion with Aga Khan Professors: From Harvard, Gulru Necipuglu; and from MIT, Nasser Rabbat and James Wescoat. VIDEO RECORDING
March 16 On the Urgency of Writing an Accessible History of Egyptian Modernism Mohamed Elshahed Independent Curator. Author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide CANCELLED
April 13 Inquiries into the Post-Secular Syrian Public Sphere and Urban Space Ahmad Sukkar AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow HELD ON ZOOM
May 4 The Lives of Religious Endowments: Islam and Neoliberal Reconstruction in Postwar Beirut Nada Moumtaz AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow HELD ON ZOOM
Monday, October 7 Why Culture Matters for Urban Development in India Stefania Abekerli Urban Development Planner, South Asia Culture and Inclusive Tourism Development, World Bank Group VIDEO RECORDING
Monday, October 28 Water and Community in Islamic Granada D. Fairchild Ruggles Department of Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday, November 18 Research Projects by two AKPIA Post-Doctoral Fellows Majdi Faleh Atri Hatef Naiemi
Wednesday, December 11 Architecture – Between Ecology and History Pankaj Vir Gupta Department of Architecture, University of Virginia
February 25 • 6 pm • MIT Room 3-133 Rebuilding Architectural Heritage in Post-Conflict Mosul: Current Challenges, Considerations, and Case Studies Allison Cuneo AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
March 11 • 6 pm • MIT Room 3-133 Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture Regeneration | Mainstreaming | Replication A. Mridul / Shilpa Mridul Architect / Entrepreneur Birkha Bawari Synopsis
April 8 • 6 pm • MIT Room 35-225 Panel Discussion with Artist Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu, New York based artist Miriam Cooke, Professor Emerita, Duke University Asma Naeem, Curator,The Baltimore Museum of Art Nasser Rabbat, Director, AKPIA@MIT Deen Sharp, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Making Connections with Julie Mehretu Article and photo by Donna Dodson for Artscope magazine
April 29 • 6 pm • MIT Room 3-133 Panel Discussion with Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini, co-authors of “The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress” Harvey Molotch, Emeritus Professor, New York University Davide Ponzini, Professor, Politecnico di Milano Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design Rosie Bsheer, Professor of History, Harvard University Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning, MIT Video of Panel Discussion
September 24 Should we Unite 4 Heritage? The Ethics of Cultural Heritage Preservation Erich Hatala Matthes Philosophy Department & Environmental Studies Wellesley College Bio & Abstract
October 15October 15(CANCELLED) Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture Regeneration | Mainstreaming | Replication A. Mridul/Shilpa Mridul Architect/ Entreprenuer Bios Birkha Bawari Synopsis
October 22 Lebanon and the Fog of Reconstruction: Between the Future and Survival Deen Sharp AKPIA@MIT 2018-19 Post-Dcotoral Fellow This lecture is permanently is available for viewing here. Bio & Abstract
November 19 Making Places in New Spaces: Circassian Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire Dawn Chatty Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration University of Oxford, UK Bio & Abstract If you missed this lecture, it is available for viewing here until12/11/18.
December 3 (CANCELLED) Reviving Architectural Heritage and the Collective Memory of Mosul Omar Mohammed a.k.a “Mosul Eye” Yale Greenberg World Fellow
Mondays at 6 pm in MIT Room 3-133 Free and open to the public.
February 26 Learning from Dadaab: An Architectural History of Forced Migration Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Postdoctoral Fellow Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Harvard University
March 12 Plunder, Destruction and Museums: The Imperial Origins of Democracy Ariella Azoulay Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature Brown University
April 2 Gardens of Memory: Design Against Amnesia Annalinda Neglia Professor of Landscape Architecture Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
April 9 at 12:00 pm in the Stella Room (7-338) Three presentations by the 2017 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant Recipients
Yusef Audeh, Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology Pure Light Traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany and Tunisia
Max Budovitch, MCP & Kelly Main, MCP Differential Impact of Refugee Housing Programs on Beneficiaries and Urban Development in Lebano Traveled to Lebanon
Sera Tolgay, AKPIA@MIT SMarchS Planning for Scarcity: Community-Based Water Management in the Jordan River Valley Traveled to Jordan
April 23 Rebuilding Abd al-Qadir’s Cities under French Administration: From Regulation to Renewal Amine Kasmi AKPIA@MIT Postdoctoral Fellow
May 7 Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Transition Architecture of Postwar Ex-Yugoslavia Aleksandar Staničić AKPIA@MIT Postdoctoral Fellow
Thursday, May 24, 2018 6-8 PM in the Stella Room (7-338) Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents – book launch and roundtable discussion See event description here.
September 25 Womanhood: From Personal to Universal Photographs by Rania Matar Rania Matar Photographer, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
October 16 Homecoming Queen Raya Ani Founder & Design Director, RAW-NYC Architects
Thursday, November 9th at 12:30 in MIT Room 5-134 A presentation by His Excellency Meret Orazov Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the United States followed by Ms. Keya Baymarova Founder and Executive Director The Durdy Bayramov Art Foundation (Toronto, Canada) Both presentations are in honour of artist and photographer Durdy Baymarov, whose work is on display at the Rotch Library through 11/26/17 in an exhibit entitled: “Through the Eyes of Durdy Baymarov: Turkmen Village Life, 1960–80s”
December 4 Exhibiting Islamic Art: From Doha to Dallas Sabiha Al Khemir Scholar and Curator
Unkess Indicated, lectures are on Mondays at 6:00 pm in MIT room 3-133. Free and open to the public.
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
February 27 Portraits of Oil Urbanism El Hadi Jazairy AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Research Scientist , Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT Bio & Abstract
March 20 Toward a Methodology of Decolonizing Photography Stephen Sheehi Professor of Arabic Studies William & Mary Bio & Abstract
April 3 Graveyard of the Clerics: Islamic Activism in Saudi Suburbia Pascale Ménoret Professor in Modern Middle East Studies, Brandeis Bio & Abstract
April 24 No Direction Home: The Life and Legacy of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz New York Based Author Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books Bio & Abstract
May 1 The Mosque and the Arcade: Academy and Nationhood in the Cold War Middle East Burak Erdim AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow North Carolina State University Bio & Abstract
LECTURES ARE MONDAYS AT 5:30 PM. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IN MIT ROOM 3-133.
September 12 In cooperation with the MIT HTC Forum The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast Sandy Prita Meier Assistant Professor of African Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
October 3 After Daraa: Syrian Art Today Maymanah Farhat Writer and Art Historian
October 29 & 30 Symposium at the Aga Khan Museum In Toronto Syria’s Art and Architecture: A Multicultural History
November 7 Digital Colonialism?: Thoughts on the Ethics of Digital Recreations of Threatened Cultural Heritage Sites in the Middle East Erin Thompson Assistant Professor of Art Law and Art Crime, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
November 14 Artfare: How Art Makes Sense of Cultural Upheaval Kirsten Scheid Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies American University of Beirut
December 5 The Role and Meaning of the Alevi Cemevi: Islamic Congregational Architecture Outside the Mosque Paradigm Angela Andersen AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Terrace Gardens in Mughal Kashmir Jan Haenraets (Bio & Abstract) AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Director, Atelier Anonymous, Vancouver
February 29 In collaboration with MIT ACT E15 – 001 (The ACT Cube) Drafting exhibitions: empathy and artistic relations. An old way that might be the best way of doing things – beyond the notion of professionalism Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Director of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
Omani ‘New Towns’ of the 17th Century: Birkat Al-Mawz and Al-Hamra Soumyen Bandyopadhyay Sir James Stirling Chair in Architecture University of Liverpool
April 4 Towards a Multiscale Human Environment: Islamic sub-Saharan Africa and Post-war Modern Urbanism Filippo De Dominicis AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
An American Mosque Screening and Q & A with filmmaker David Washburn April 13, 7:00 to 9:00 pm MIT room 6-120
April 29, 2016, 12 – 2 pm, MIT room 9-255 Presentations by the 2015-16 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant Recipients
Karthik Rao Cavale The Road to Dalit Mobility: Rural Roads and Caste Relations in India Tamil Nadu, India
Dina El-Zanfaly Making to Learn and Learning to Make Turkey
Alpen Sheth (Via Skype) Disaster Insurance as planning? Field Visit to Disaster-prone Areas. India
September 28 Premises for Practice Hashim Sarkis Dean, MIT School of Architecture & Planning
October 5 When Politics and Architecture Collide (Lecture Video) Hisham Munir Architect & Planner, Hisham Munir & Associates
October 19 The Role of Micro-architecture and Topography in Early Mughal Painting (Lecture Video) Mika Natif The George Washington University, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
November 9 A Shift to Modernity in the Art and Architecture of Damascus, 1860-1963 (Lecture Video) Anas Soufan AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
February 23 Architecture as an Appropriating Apparatus: Muslim Nationalism and Designing Presidential Complex of Islamabad, Pakistan Farhan Karim AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
March 16 Ceci n’est pas Damas: Arabic Prose Topographies of Damascus Dana Sajdi AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow Associate Professor, Boston College
April 27 Culture and Identity: The Architecture of Jewish Holy Spaces in Isfahan, Iran Mohammad Gharipour Associate Professor, Morgan State University, Baltimore
September 22 Global Nomads: Migration and Cultural Mobility in the Current Profession of Architecture Asiya Chowdhury Design Leader Ian Schrager Company, New York
October 20 6:00 pm in Barthos Theater, MIT Homecoming after Death: An Islamic Cemetery in Austria Bernardo Bader Architect & Principal, bernardo bader architekten, Dornbirn, Austria Eva Grabherr Director of the Center for Immigration and Integration, Vorarlberg, Austria Azra Aksamija ACT/MIT Nasser Rabbat AKPIA/MIT
November 3 What Constitutes Excellence in Islamic Geometric Design? Historical and Contemporary Best Practice Eric Broug Author and educator, UK
Special Workshop by Eric Broug Tuesday, November 4, 10:00 am -1:00 pm in MIT room E25-117 A Practical Introduction to Islamic Geometric Design Workshop Using only a pencil, a straight edge, and a pair of compasses, learn how to make patterns using the same techniques used by craftsmen for centuries. Learn how they used polygonal grids to design and scale their compositions. We will be making two patterns: one from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, another from the Al-Mustansariyya madrasa in Baghdad.
November 17 Conflict, Convivencia, and the Life of Buildings Michele Lamprakos School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation University of Maryland-College Park
February 10 Mamalik and Mamalik: The Citadel between Ayyubids and Seljuks in the Early 13th Century Scott Redford Professor, Department of Archaeology and History of Art Koç University, Istanbul
February 24 Tea with Nefertiti: or How the Arts Shape Culture Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Founders of Art Reoriented New York & Munich
March 17 Understanding the Urban Heritage: The Cultural Wire-Scape of Historic Lahore Masood Khan Heritage Consultant
April 4 12:30 – 2:30 in room 4-231 Presentations by the 2013-14 Travel Grant Winners Kian Goh, PhD DUSP Place in the Flows: Sustainable Urbanism and a Social Design Movement. Jakarta, Indonesia Michael Kubo, PhD HTC Speculation: Oil Economy and Late Modernism 1973-1983. Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah Hala Malik, SMArchS AKPIA Mapping domestic spaces of Lahore in the 1950’s. Lahore, Pakistan Emily Williamson, SMArchS AKPIA Research on the Black Volta Islamic Trade Networks. Ghana, West Africa
April 7 Around the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: New Data on the Role of Markets in the “Islamic City” of the Middle Ages Elodie Vigouroux AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 14 Nationalism, Sentimentality, and Judgment: Cultivating Sympathy in the Syrian Uprising, 2011-2013 Lisa Wedeen Professor of Political Science University of Chicago
May 5 The Historiography of Contemporary Architecture in the Gulf Sumayah Al-Solaiman Ibn Khaldun Fellow, MIT Professor, College of Design University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia
March 4 Medieval Anatolia is Elsewhere: Mapping Cultural Encounters and Impasses of Architectural Historiography Suna Cagaptay Bahcesehir University, Turkey AKPIA@MIT fellow 2012-13
March 11 The Aleppo-Damascus Itinerary: A Tale of a Resilient Road and its Cavaranserais Cinzia Tavernari University of Urbino, Italy AKPIA@MIT fellow 2012-13
April 1 The Traditional Architecture of Libya’s Nafusah Mountains: Types of Dwellings and Evolution of Urban Settlements Beniamino Polimeni Universita Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy AKPIA@MIT fellow 2012-13
April 29 Restoration of Spanish Islamic Architecture: The Case of the Alhambra and the Bofilla Tower Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
April 20, SPECIAL EVENT “The Right to Architecture” One Day Symposium Saturday from 9:30 am to 6:00
October 29 (Cancelled and rescheduled for November 26) Beyond Walls: Appraising Architecture Vis-à-Vis Material Culture Pamela Karimi Assistant Professor of Art History University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
November 19 Explorations in the Architecture of al-Andalus Glaire Anderson Associate Professor of Islamic Art History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
December 3 Images of the Prophet Muhammad In and Out of Modernity: The Curious Case of a 2008 Mural in Tehran Christiane Gruber Associate Professor of Islamic Art University of Michigan
November 8th, 12:30 to 2:00 in MIT room 5-216 Part of course 4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures Lecture on Chinese Mosques by Nancy S. Steinhardt Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
February 13 Formation of Marinid Madrasas and the Ornate Archiving of Sovereignty Riyaz Latif Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT
March 9 at noon in room 3-133 Presentations by the recipients of the 2011-2012 Student Travel Grants “The Style Will Be Indo-Saracenic”: Walter Burley Griffin’s 1936 Lucknow Exhibition and the Making of (Transnational) Civil Society Shiben Banerji HTC PhD Bukhara: the Case of Urban Amnesia Hanna Rutkouskaya AKPIA@MIT SMArchS Kampungs, Warungs and Super Sambal: Participatory Planning in Indonesia with Solo Kota Kita and UN Habitat Stephen Kennedy MCP Alice Shay MCP
March 19 Modernity, Citizenship and Urban Space: Public Beaches and Swimming Pools in Early Republican Istanbul Sibel Bozdogan Visiting Lecturer, AKPIA@MIT
April 2 The Art of Mediation: Aesthetics and the Imagination in Islamic Ornamental Art Samir Mahmoud Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT
April 9 African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks Jonathan Noble Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
April 23 Architectural Discontext Makram el Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine
September 19 The Avenue of Sphinxes, Luxor, Egypt: Historical and Cultural Challenges in Urban Design Hala Nassar Associate Professor in Planning & Landscape Architecture Clemson University
October 3 The Work of the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services in Pakistan Hafiz Sherali Chairman, Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, Pakistan
November 7 Panoramic Urbanism: Visualizing Urban History in Istanbul Ipek Tureli Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT
December 5 Bioclimatic Devices and Adaptations at Alijares Palace (Alhambra, 14th century) and other Nasrid Buildings Luis Jose Garcia Pulido Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT
February 28 Islamic Military Architecture in the Near East and Egypt at the Time of the Crusades Benjamin Michaudel Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Syria
March 14 The Islamic Paradise Garden: Myths and Realities Laura E. Parodi Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT Independent Scholar
April 11 Detranscendentalizing: [Secularism, Economy, Politics, Science] Arindam Dutta Associate Professor, History, Theory and Criticism, MIT
Special Event Part of the MIT 150th Anniversary Celebration Wednesday April 27 The Global Architect in the Free Trade Age Re-territorializing the Global: Differential Approaches to Tourism in Morocco Aziza Chaouni Assistant Professor, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto Principal, Bureau E.A.S.T Selling Brand Dubai Deeba Haider Consultant/ Writer/ Architect, LA Associate Editor at International Journal of Islamic Architecture Same Same but Different The Global Trade in Architecture Kevin Mark Low Principal, smallprojects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jet Planes / Concrete Planes Todd Reisz Architect and Editor, Al Manakh, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Moderated by Nasser Rabbat
May 9 Starting at 5:00 PM in room 3-133 The Portuguese Architectural Heritage and the Islamic World: The Gulbenkian Project Presented by Faculty from the University of Evora, Portugal: Filipe Themudo Barata Professor of Mediterranean and Heritage History Fernando Branco Correia Assistant Professor of Islamic History and Archeology João Rocha Assistant Professor of Architecture
September 27 Adventures in Arabia and Beyond Chad Oppenheim Architect Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Miami, Florida
October 25 Mughal Monuments and the Politics of Memory Saleema Waraich AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
November 8 Reviving the Invented: The Neo-Achaemenid from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran Talinn Grigor Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Brandeis University
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