Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage excellence in architecture and other forms of intervention in the built environment of societies with a Muslim presence. The award is given every three years and recognizes all types of building projects that affect today’s built environment. Smaller projects are given equal consideration as large-scale buildings. Richly illustrated and with explanatory texts, the book presents this year’s shortlist and the award recipients. This year’s topic is centered around the relationship between life and architecture. Numerous essays examine how architecture interacts with the life of people who inhabit it.

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 352 pages, approx. 200 illustrations, hardcover (2013)

ISBN 978-3-03778-378-8, English

6 Preface
Farrokh Derakhshani

9 The Architecture of Life
Mohsen Mostafavi

26 Steering Committee Brief

29 Report of the Master Jury

34 The Particular and the Universal
Mahmood Mamdani

42 Geography and Architecture
David Adjaye

46 Innovation and Judgement
Toshiko Mori

50 The Awarnd and China
Wang Shu

51 Endless Inventiveness
Shahzia Sikander

CRAFT
54 Preservation of the Mbaru Niang
Wae Rebo Village, Flores Island, Indonesia

64 Kantana Film and Animation Institute
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

74 Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre
Limpopo Province, South Africa

83 Building Crafts in the Modern World
Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj

CONSERVATION
90 Preservation of Scared and Collective Oasis Sites
Guelmim Region, Morocco

100 Restoration of Thula Fort
Yemen

110 Revitalisation of Birzeit Historic Centre 2013 Award Recipient
Palestine

126 Rehabilitation of Nagaur Fort
Rajasthan, India

DWELLING
138 Apartment No. 1
Mahallat, Iran

148 The Met Tower
Bangkok, Thailand

INFRASTRUCTURE
162 Rehabilitation of Tabriz Bazaar 
2013 Award Recipient
Iran

180 Rabat-Salé Urban Infrastructure Project
2013 Award Recipient
Morocco

198 Islamic Cemetery
2013 Award Recipient
Altach, Austria

2016 Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery
2013 Award Recipient
Khartoum, Sudan

233 Placeness and Well-Being, Through the Lens of Infrastructure
Hanif Kara

INSTITUTION
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
Damascus, Syria

250 Mohammed VI Football Academy
Salé, Morocco

260 Museum of Handcraft Paper
Gaoligong, Yunnan China

RESILIENCE
272 Umubano Primary School
Kigali, Rwanda

282 Post-Tsunami Housing
Kirinda, Sri Lanka

292 Maria Grazia Cutuli Primary School
Khushrud Village, Herat, Afghanistan

302 Reconstruction of Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp
Akkar, Lebanon

316 On Landscape
Michel Desvigne

320 Turkish Architecture Today!
Hashim Sarkis in conversation with Han Tümertekin and Murat Tabanlıoglu

331 Redefining the Built Project
Mohammad al-Asad

339 From Public Space to Public Sphere
Homi K. Bhabha

346 2013 Award Steering Committee
2013 Award Master Jury
347 2013 Award On-Site Reviewers
348 Award Recipients 1980–2013
350 Acknowledgements

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