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March 31 - May 21, 2008
Curated by Hashim Sarkis
Throughout its thirty-year history—and ten Award cycles—the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has identified and celebrated built projects in Muslim societies that demonstrate design’s important role in social and economic development. Given the breadth of this pursuit and the geographic and cultural heterogeneity of the Muslim world, it has become customary in every cycle to expect a wide range of projects that share sensitivity to their contexts and understanding of the developmental impact of design.
This cycle’s nine awards do not fail the test of diversity. They range in location from Central Africa to Malaysia, and in scale from an entire town to a small public square. They all demonstrate that socioeconomic development is linked to innovations in the process of construction.
The exhibition brings the awarded projects to the United States for the first time. The projects are:
Restoration of the Amiriya Complex
Rada, Yemen
Moulmein Rise Residential Tower
Singapore, Malaysia
Rehabilitation of the City of Shibam
Wadi Hadhramaut, Yemen
University of Technology Petronas
Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia
Rehabilitation of the Walled City
Nicosia, Cyprus
Samir Kassir Square
Beirut, Lebanon
Central Market
Koudougou, Burkina Faso
Royal Netherlands Embassy
Old Airport Zone W24, K13, House 001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
School in Rudrapur
Dinajpur, Bangladesh