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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design ...
It includes global awards, international regional awards, international and national thematic awards, national awards, awards for students and young architects, local awards and humorous awards. A further list of awards sorted by date, location and type can be seen on Architecture Awards Tracker [ 1 ] .
Due to its special design, Argo factory received a lot of attention and managed to receive major architectural awards at the global level. In 2022, this building, along with two other Iranian projects, among 463 submitted works from 16 countries, was included in the list of final candidates for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and from this list, six projects were selected as the final ...
He won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design in 2004. [ 16 ] Kéré drew preliminary building plans in the sand to communicate with villagers, many of whom were illiterate, and found they fully engaged with the project, with many generating their own suggestions for improvement.
Marina Tabassum (born 1968 or 1969) [1] is a Bangladeshi architect. [2] She is the principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects. In 2016, she won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of Bait-ur-Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [3]
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is the largest architectural award in the world. [77] The Aga Khan was also the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, which he founded in 1977. [78] He was also a vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society. [79]
His work and his projects have been conferred with numerous awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1992), [15] [21] United Nations Centre for Human Settlements' Award of Excellence (1998), World Architecture Award (2001) and the Prime Minister’s National Award for Excellence in Urban Planning and Design (2006). He was bestowed ...
Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nuvɛl]; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects.