It is a great honor be a part of the official process of “the Aga Khan Award for Architecture-the 2023-2025 cycle”.

 

It is a great honor for me to be a part of the official process of “the Aga Khan Award for Architecture-the 2023-2025 cycle”, with their kind invitation e-mail. With my full commitment to the confidentiality of the award program's evaluation process, it’s all rules and procedures, this is all information I can share at this moment.

Chaired by His Highness Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture-Steering Committee for the 2023-2025 cycle comprised the following pioneering international experts in the field:

• Gülru Necipoğlu, Director and Professor of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the U.S.

• Hashim Sarkis, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, the U.S.

• Lesley Lokko, Founder & Director, African Futures Institute, Accra, Ghana

• Meisa Batayneh, Principal Architect, Founder, maisam architects and engineers, Amman, Jordan

• Sarah M. Whiting, Dean, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the U.S.

• Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor in the Departments of French and Philosophy, Columbia University, NYC, New York, the U.S.; https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-agencies/aga-khan-trust-culture/aga-khan-award-for-architecture/2023-2025-cycle-steering-committee, last accessed on 4.19.2024.

" The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture….”, https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-agencies/aga-khan-trust-culture/aga-khan-award-for-architecture, last accessed on 4.19.2024.

"Dr. Dogan Kuban", my professor at Istanbul Technical University was among "the Aga Khan Award For Architecture Steering Committee, Founding Members 1977-80" with "Hassan Fathy, Hh Aga Khan, William Porter, Sir Hugh Casson, Garr Campbell, Charles Correa, Oleg Grabar, Nader Ardalan, Renata Holod, Convener, Hassan-Uddin Khan, Convener"; https://www.ardalanassociates.com/the-aga-khan-award-for-architecture.html, last accessed on 4.19.2024.