1995 Cycle Master Jury statement
Critical Discourse for Creative Transformations
From the 442 nominations, we selected twelve projects and grouped them in relation to three themes:
Projects that address a critical social discourse
- Restoration of Bukhara Old City, Uzbekistan
- Conservation of Old Sana'a, Yemen
- Reconstruction of Hafsia Quarter II, Tunis, Tunisia
- Khuda-ki-Basti Incremental Development Scheme, Hyderabad, Pakistan
- Aranya Community Housing, Indore, India
Projects that address a critical architectural and urbanistic discourse
- Great Mosque of Riyadh and Redevelopment of the Old City Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Menara Mesiniaga, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Kaedi Regional Hospital, Kaedi, Mauritania
Projects that introduce innovative concepts worthy of attention
- Mosque of the Grand National Assembly, Ankara, Turkey
- Alliance Franco-Sénégalaise, Kaolack, Senegal
- Re-Forestation Programme of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Landscaping Integration of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang, Indonesia
It is our belief that these projects illustrate an important message for the Muslim societies of today. More importantly, we feel that these messages are of universal relevance and constitute an important contribution that the architecture of the Muslim societies of today can make to the architectural and social discourse of the world. The jury wants to highlight not only the specificity of the solutions, but also their generic contributions and replicability.
We see the role of a new critical discourse as being projective rather than retrospective and so have introduced the category 'innovative concepts', explicitly geared to encourage risk taking by future aspirants to the Award. Only thus will imaginations be unleashed to generate new ideas; and through ideas, even now, we are inventing the future.