Aga Khan Award for Architecture 1980 | Solving Problems of Individual Survival

“To many Westerners, the Taj Mahal in all its splendour typifies #Islamicarchitecture. Yet the overwhelming majority of #Muslims live on the very margin of human existence, far from such grandeur,” says Architecture and Community, a book that was published on the occasion of first ceremony of ‪@TheAgaKhanAward‬ #Architecture, in Lahore, Pakistan, on the 23 of October 1980.

This is a film on the first ever #AKAA ceremony, celebrating again the 15 Award Recipients who merged “Islam's rich cultural heritage with modern technology to help solve the problems of individual survival in the contemporary world”.

The recipients included:

Agricultural Training Centre, Nianing, Senegal
Ali Qapu, Chehl Sotoun & Hasht Behesht, Isfahan, Iran
Conservation of Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunis, Tunisia
Courtyard Houses, Agadir, Morocco
Ertegün House, Bodrum, Turkey
Halawa House, Agamy, Egypt
Intercontinental Hotel & Conference Centre, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Kampung Improvement Programme, Jakarta, Indonesia
Medical Centre, Mopti, Mali
Mughal Sheraton Hotel, Agra, India
National Museum, Doha, Qatar
Pondok Pesantren Pabelan, Muntilan, Indonesia
Rüstem Pasa Caravanserai, Edirne, Turkey
Turkish Historical Society, Ankara, Turkey
Water Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait

For more about the Aga Khan Award for Architecture: https://www.akdn.org/architecture