Saif Ul Haque Sthapati   Bangladesh   Distinguished with the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, this bamboo construction in South Kanarchor harbors a kindergarten, a professional training center, and a hostel. Carried out by the Dhaka firm of Saif Ul Haque, the 'amphibious' structure

X Architects   United Arab Emirates   Distinguished with the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Wasit Wetland Center in the Emirate of Sharjah is a facility with a marsh, a visitor center, and points from which to birdwatch. The Dubai-based firm X-Architects, headed by Ahmed Al-Al

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Mali   Located where the Niger and Bani rivers meet, Mopti is Mali’s fourth largest city and its main commercial port. After the restoration of the Great Mosque of Mopti, commonly known as the Mosque of Komoguel, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) turned

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   With a population of 3000 inhabitants, Gando is a small village in the southern plains of burkina faso. It is located 200 kilometers from Ouagadougou, the country´s capital. In 1998, Francis Kéré launched a project to build a school in his native vil

Marina Tabassum    Bangladesh   Natural ventilation and indirect light characterize the interior of this mosque designed with local materials and located in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka. 

All prizes are questionable, as is the very concept of a ‘prize.’ Created to recognize the talent and achievement of an author or the efficiency and beauty of a building, architecture awards tend to end up being partisan tools of promotion or predict

Several Works Unveiling hidden talent and x-raying the complex geography of the Islamic world has been the purpose of the Aga Khan Architecture Award since 1977. The prizes, characterized by their ecumenical character, have managed to bring East and

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) today announced 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Award cycle. The projects will compete for a share of the US$ 1 million prize, one of the largest in architecture. The 20 shortlisted projects were selec

Several Works  Just like any other cliché, the one that links the architecture of the Islamic world with the mere repetition of traditional styles like the Alhambra or with the ostentation of glass skyscrapers in the desert as in Dubai, seems charica

Like all clichés, the one that associates architecture of the Islamic world with either the simple replication of traditional styles or the ostentation of glass skyscrapers, results in a caricature. In fact there is no scarcity of admirable works, fr

AKDN   The 20 shortlisted projects, which are located in 16 different countries, will compete for US$ 1 million in prize money. The prestigious prize-giving ceremony will be hosted in the historic centre city of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federat

Six works Founded in 1977 and awarded by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, directed by the Spaniard Luis Monreal, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has become the key prize for architecture in the Islamic world and for quality buildings carried out w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture can build pluralism. In a world shattered by the tension between globalization and nationalism, the built environment can provide stages for this conflict to be choreographed, bridging the gap between the cosmopolitan and the local throu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture can build pluralism. In a world shattered by the tension between globalization and nationalism, the built environment can provide stages for this conflict to be choreographed, bridging the gap between the cosmopolitan and the local throu

Instituted in the year 1977 and given by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), which the Spaniard Luis Monreal heads, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has consolidated through the decades and become a benchmark not only for contemporary architect

Here’s a video that takes us through the winning works in the latest Aga Khan Award for Architecture, with comments of the architects and the members of the jury presided by Luis Fernández-Galiano.

Madinat al-Zahra Museum  “The museum is a symbol of the ‘convivencia’ evoked by the name Andalusia, and bears testimony that, indeed, Córdoba is the future, not only the past”. With these words the jury of the Aga Khan Awards referred to the Mad

Covadonga Lorenzo   El Premio Aga Khan de Arquitectura es un prestigioso galardón internacional que se otorga a los principales proyectos arquitectónicos, urbanísticos o paisajísticos del mundo musulmán valorando cuestiones como el impacto de los edificios en la calidad

«Un símbolo de la convivencia que evoca el nombre de Andalucía y que atestigua que Córdoba es el futuro, no sólo el pasado». Así se refirió el jurado de los premios Aga Khan al Museo Madinat al-Zahra, del estudio madrileño de Fuensanta Nieto y Enriqu

Mohsen Mostafavi   Los premios Aga Khan de arquitectura se otorgan generalmente a proyectos de naturaleza transformadora, que suponen una importante aportación social a sus comunidades respectivas y que, además, en el proceso contribuyen de modo significativo al avance

Luis Fernández-Galiano   All prizes are cartographic: they distinguish individuals, but also help represent a whole territory. Along with publications, exhibitions and competitions, architectural awards put markers in the motley contemporary landscape, and these singular lan

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Alhambra of Granada was the backdrop of the awarding of the Aga Khan architectural prizes, which throw an unexpected light on the Islamic world.

Sarah M. Whiting   Berlín  2022  
ArchiTangle   - 328 Pages 

Azra Aksamija   Building Pluralism

Andres Lepik (ed.)   Berlin  2019  
ArchiTangle   - 352 Pages 

Mohsen Mostafavi   Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013