Sunday, 28 May 2006 | Senay
Aga Khan Architectural Award Winners 1980-2004
A Photographic Display
B2 House, Buyukhusun, Ayvacik, Turkey - The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004.
Two Turkish brothers, Selman and Suha Bilal, wanted to build a house on Turkey's north Aegean coast as a place to spend weekends in a spot where they could find beauty, tranquillity and seclusion without travelling long distances from their homes in Istanbul.
Aga Khan Architectural Award Winners 1980-2004
A Photographic Display
May 24 through June 23, 2006, Lower Lobby (free)
The Museum of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
Winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in the last two decades are featured in a photographic display at MOA to June 23. The Award was established in 1977 to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture. It is organized on the basis of a three-year cycle and is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan.
Prizes totaling up to US $500,000 are presented every three years to projects selected by an independent Master Jury. Nine cycles of activity have been completed since 1977, and the Tenth Award Cycle covers 2005-07.
This display is organized in conjunction with a three-day public program to be presented June 1-3 by MOA and CICA, the International Architectural Critics' Association. The program, entitled "A Dialogue of Cities," brings together eight leading architecture critics to explore current urban issues and museum-building in some of the world's most fascinating cities: Mexico City, Rome, Hong Kong, Havana, Dubai, Nairobi, London, Lower Manhattan - and, of course, Vancouver.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt - The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004.
The spirit of international cooperation in which the library was conceived, funded,
designed and implemented has been maintained in its management to create an institution
that is truly global in its outlook.
For more information please visit the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia at http://www.moa.ubc.ca/
See also:
Aga Khan Award for Architecture Tenth Award Cycle, 2005 - 2007
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