Aga Khan Award for Architecture

The Award is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. An independent master jury is appointed to select the award recipients from projects nominated for each cycle (View Press Release). The new master jury will be announced in 2009. The members of the 11th cycle Steering Committee are:

His Highness the Aga Khan, Chairman

Mohammad al-Asad (Founder and chairman, Center for the Study of the Built Environment, Amman)

Homi K. Bhabha (Director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University, USA)

Norman Foster (Founder and chairman, Foster + Partners, London)

Glenn Lowry (Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Rahul Mehrotra (Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai, India)

Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA)

Farshid Moussavi (Partner, Foreign Office Architects, London)

Han Tümertekin (Principal, Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik Ltd, Istanbul).

Farrokh Derakhshani is the director of the Award.

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Aga Khan Award for Architecture logo "Allah" rendered in square Kufic script forms the basis of the logo, designed by Karl Schlamminger.

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