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Master
Jury and Steering Committee for
The Ninth Award Cycle in Geneva |
His Highness the
Aga Khan, Chairman;
Akram Abu Hamdan, Director
General, National Resources Investment and Development
Corporation, Amman;
Charles Correa, Principal,
Charles Correa Architects, Mumbai;
Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director,
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations,
Aga Khan University, London;
Jacques Herzog, Partner, Herzog
& de Meuron Architects, Basel; Glenn
Lowry, Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York;
Mohsen Mostafavi, Chairman,
The Architectural Association School of Architecture,
London;
Babar Khan Mumtaz, Reader
in Housing Studies, University of London; and
Peter Rowe,
Dean, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN,
Chairman. For more information, please "About
His Highness the Aga Khan".
AKRAM
ABU HAMDAN is a Jordanian architect, trained at
the Architectural Association School of Architecture
in London. Mr. Abu Hamdan directed an architectural
research unit at Jordan’s Royal Scientific
Society from 1979 to 1982, and was a lecturer and
design tutor at the School of Architecture at the
University of Jordan for eight years. In private
practice in Amman, Mr. Abu Hamdan's works focused
on architectural themes that support vibrant urban
spaces. He was a council member of the Greater Amman
Municipality and co-ordinator for a documentation
study of the Old City of Jerusalem conducted jointly
by Harvard University and the Royal Scientific Society.
Mr. Abu Hamdan served as Commissioner General and
Chairman of the Jordan National Committee for Expo
2000, and led the design team of the Jordan pavilion
at the world exhibition in Hanover, for which he
was awarded the Medal of Independence by HM King
Abdullah II. Currently, he is Director General of
the National Resources Investment and Development
Corporation, with responsibility for major urban
regeneration projects in the cities of Amman, Zarqa
and Aqaba. He is also Chairman of the Executive
Committee for the Martyrs Memorial Public Park project
in Amman. Mr. Abu Hamdan served as a Technical Reviewer
during the 2001 Award cycle.
CHARLES
CORREA is an Indian architect, planner, activist,
and theoretician who studied architecture at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and
the University of Michigan. He has taught and lectured
at many universities, both in India and abroad,
including MIT, Harvard University, the University
of London, and Cambridge University, where he was
Nehru Professor. Mr. Correa is known for the wide
range of his architectural work in India and on
urbanisation and low-cost shelter in the Third World,
which he articulated in his 1985 publication, The
New Landscape. His architectural designs have been
internationally acclaimed and he has received many
awards including the Royal Institute of British
Architects Gold Medal (1984), the Indian Institute
of Architects Gold Medal (1987), the International
Union of Architects Gold Medal (1990), and the Praemium
Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association
(1994). Professor Correa was a member of the 1980,
1983, 1986, and 2001 Award Steering Committees,
and of the 1989 Award Master Jury. He was presented
an Aga Khan Award for Architecture during the 1998
cycle as the architect of Vidhan Bhavan in Bhopal,
India.
ABDOU
FILALI-ANSARY is a Moroccan social scientist, and
Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim
Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London. Previously,
he was Director of the King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Foundation
for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences in Casablanca.
Mr. Filali-Ansary obtained a doctorate in philosophy
from the University of Dijon, on the topic of “The
Notion of Intuition in the Philosophy of Spinoza
and Bergson”. He taught philosophy at the
University of Rabat, and was then secretary general
of the University of Mohamed V in Rabat. Since 1994,
he has been the editor of Prologues, a scholarly
journal devoted to literature and ideas of interest
to the Maghreb. Mr. Filali-Ansary has published
numerous articles on contemporary Islamic thought,
including the recent essays “The Challenge
of Secularisation” (The Journal of Democracy,
Washington D.C., 1996) and “Islam and Secularisation”
(Revista de Occident, Madrid, 1997). His monograph
entitled Is Islam Hostile to Secularism? was published
in 1996, and he translated and contributed the foreword
to Ali Abderraziq’s Islam and the Foundations
of Political Power in 1994. Mr. Filali-Ansary was
a member of the 2001 Award Master Jury.
JACQUES
HERZOG is a Swiss architect and partner in the firm
“Herzog & de Meuron”, recipients
of the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Trained
in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Mr. Herzog opened
his private practice with Pierre de Meuron in Basel
during 1978. Current projects include the New de
Young Museum in San Francisco; the Prada Flagship
Store in Tokyo; the Laban Dance Centre in London,
following the opening of the Tate Modern in May
2000; The New Link Quay in Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
as well as the Forum 2004 Building and Plaza in
Barcelona. Following on the success of the St. Jakob
Park stadium in Basel, Herzog & de Meuron are
planning the new soccer stadium for Munich, to be
inaugurated with the 2006 World Championships. The
projects and completed work of Herzog & de Meuron
are widely exhibited and published, and featured
in numerous monographs and catalogues. Mr. Herzog
is a visiting professor at Harvard University and
co-founder of the ETH Studio Basel, Institute for
the Contemporary City.
GLENN
LOWRY is an art historian from the United States,
and Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
in New York City. Among the major exhibitions that
have taken place during Mr. Lowry’s tenure
at MoMA are Mies in Berlin (2001), Andreas Gursky
(2001), Workspheres (2001), Jackson Pollock (1998–99),
Pierre Bonnard (1998), Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998),
Chuck Close (1998), Jasper Johns (1996–1997),
Picasso and Portraiture (1996), and Piet Mondrian
(1995). A noted scholar of Islamic arts and architecture,
Mr. Lowry was previously Director of the Art Gallery
of Ontario (1990?95), and Curator of Near Eastern
Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur
M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art (1984?90)
where he organised, among other exhibitions, Timur
and Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in
the Fifteenth Century (1989) and A Jeweler’s
Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book From the Vever Collection
(1988). Mr. Lowry’s many honours include a
doctorate of fine arts degree from the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts (2000), Chevalier d’Ordre
de Merite (2001) and Chevalier de l’Ordre
des Arts et Lettres (2000) from the French government,
and the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies
Award (1990).
MOHSEN
MOSTAFAVI is an Iranian architect, and Chairman
of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
in London, a position he has held since 1995. Mr.
Mostafavi received a Diploma in Architecture from
the Architectural Association in London, and undertook
research on counter-reformation urban history at
the University of Essex and at Cambridge University.
Prior to his current appointment, he was Director
of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Graduate
School of Design, Harvard University. Mr. Mostafavi
has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania,
Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy
of Fine Arts (Staedelschule). His research has been
published in many journals, including The Architectural
Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella,
Centre, and Daidalos, and he is co-author of Architecture
and Continuity (1983); Delayed Space (with Homa
Fardjadi, 1994) and of On Weathering: The Life of
Buildings in Time (with David Leatherbarrow, MIT,
1993), which received the American Institute of
Architects commendation prize for writing on architectural
theory. Mr. Mostafavi’s recent publications
include: Approximations (AA/MIT, 2002); and Surface
Architecture (MIT, 2002).
BABAR KHAN MUMTAZ is a Reader
in Housing Studies at the University of London,
and at the Development Planning Unit at the Bartlett
School of the Built Environment, London. Originally
from Pakistan, Mr. Mumtaz is a specialist in urban
planning, housing, and development, and is committed
to the improvement of living conditions in underprivileged
societies. He has undertaken projects and led research
throughout the world, including the Indian subcontinent,
Central Asia, the Arab States, West Africa, and
the Pacific rim. He has also served as a consultant
to a large number of national governments, international
agencies, and non-governmental organisations. Equally
influential as a teacher, he has pioneered and contributed
to the development of curricula for studies in urban
design in developing societies, development planning,
urban housing, and disaster management and preparedness,
all with a focus on actual field experience for
students to complement their academic studies. His
writings on these topics are widely published, including
the monographs Meeting Housing Demand: A Model for
Establishing Affordability Parameters for Housing
(1995) and The Housing Question, and Other Answers
(1989, with R. Ali). and he is a frequent speaker
at international meetings and scholarly conferences.
PETER
G. ROWE is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture
and Urban Design at Harvard University, where he
also serves as Dean of the Graduate School of Design,
a position he has held since 1992. Prior to joining
the Harvard faculty in 1985, Rowe was Director of
the School of Architecture at Rice University and
a senior member of several research organisations,
including the Rice Center and the Southwest Center
for Urban Research. The author of numerous articles
principally concerned with matters of cultural interpretation
and design in both architecture and urban design,
as well as the relationship of urban form to issues
of economic development, housing provision, and
resource conservation, Dean Rowe is also the author
of the books: Principles for Local Environmental
Management (Ballinger, 1978); Design Thinking (MIT,
1987); Making a Middle Landscape (MIT, 1991); Modernity
and Housing (MIT, 1993); Civic Realism (MIT, 1997);
Projecting Beirut (Prestel, 1998); L’Asia
e il Moderno (Transeuropa, 1999); Modern Urban Housing
in China: 1840-2000 (Prestel, 2001); and Architectural
Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China
(MIT, 2002).
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