mohsen mostafavi

This book brings together a diverse range of exemplary architectural projects from across the globe. Carefully selected and examined by a team of experts, these projects demonstrate innovative approaches that respond to the challenges and potentials of contemporary conditions and contexts. One guiding principle...

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...

Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces--the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments--bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and geopolitical volatility, deepening environmental crises, and a dramatic new wave...

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 by His Highness the Aga Khan to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture. Its method is to seek out and recognize examples of architectural excellence, encompassing concerns as...

This volume addresses the complex relations between urban artifacts and urban life. The contributions show how architects, planners, and urban designers describe and give shape to the city, while novelists, humanists, and other scholars examine its operations and performances. The essential question is: How...

Anniversaries offer the opportunity to consider the past as an active interlocutor with the present and the future. For the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, this means highlighting people, events, objects, and ideas in a rich institutional history to bring the collective memory...

A journey through the world of one of the most daring US architectsWith photographs by Iwan BaanCo-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design.Combining the talents of an architect, artist, and developer, John Portman was able to embark on a series of large-scale building...

This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan's social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused...

Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo. The book questions how "artifice" and the "social world" can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by...