30.0 x 24.0cms 256pp mostly b/w illusts very good paperback & cover This book documents the 15 prize-winners of the second-cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The essays are: architetrue & developmet in the Islamic world: the mosque in the medieval Islamic world; the mosque today; a survey of modern Turkish architecture.

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Title: Architecture & Community: Building In The Islamic World Today. The Aga Khan Award For Architecture
Publisher: Aperture New York 1985
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0893811874
ISBN 13: 9780893811877
Binding: Soft cover

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The 11 winning projects featured in this book represent contemporary architecture and urban redevelopment in Muslim countries since the 1960s. They illustrate hotels, mosques and housing as well as restored historic buildings from nine countries including Yugoslavia, Mali, Pakistan and Malaysia.

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Sherban Cantacuzino, editor, is an architect, a former executive editor of The Architectural Review and now secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission, London. He was a member of the master jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1980 and a member of the Award steering committee from 1981 to 1983. He is the author of several books, including Great Modern Architecture, New Uses for Old Buildings and (with Susan Brandt) Saving Old Buildings.

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