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Building for Tomorrow: New publication added to Archnet

The more than 19 essays on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in this retrospective suggest there is a transnational and transterritorial landscape’ out of which a constructive discourse can emerge. Through a definition of architecture that engages the whole built environment and situates human and cultural concerns at heart of the conversation about the future of building in the Muslim world, the Award has led, initiated and sustained an enabling series of conversations. The essays in this volume, while different in focus and approach, indicate how the Award has fostered and forged such “a community of concern”.

MUQARNAS

Volume XXVII of Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World is now available on Archnet. Muqarnas is a lively forum of discussion among scholars and students in the west and in the Islamic world. Subjects covered in its pages include the history of Islamic art and architecture up to the present, with attention devoted as well to aspects of Islamic culture, history, and learning. Examples of articles in Volume XXVII include: The Dome of the Rock in Light of the Development of Concentric Martyria in Jerusalem; Alhambra Palace Architecture; and, The Depiction of Ceremonies in Ottoman Miniatures.