Local and Vernacular Architecture of Iran, Bushehr — Documentary "In Longing for the Wind"
Hamid Akbari
Finalists of the 25th Memar Award — 1404
Winners of the 25th Memar Award — 1404
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Semifinalists — Public Buildings
The Editor
Jeddah · 1981
Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John Hancock Center.
Visoko · 1980
Zlatko Ugljen is a Bosnian architect. He was born in Mostar in 1929. His work includes economic buildings, private housing, memorials, religious buildings, and cultural institutions. A significant part of his oeuvre consists of Islamic and Catholic sacred buildings. Among his most famous sacred buildings is the White Mosque in Visoko, for which he received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1983.
Akyaka · 1970
Nail Çakırhan (1910–2008) was a Turkish poet and journalist in his career in the beginning, and later a self-taught and award-winning architect and restorer who left his print particularly in the architecture of the coastal township of Akyaka in southwestern Turkey through old houses he had repaired and restored or new houses built in accordance with the traditional styles and approaches of Turkish/Ottoman/Aegean houses, supplemented with innovative conceptions and designs.
Harraniyya
Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptian architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo and founder of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Malian master builder from Niono who designed and constructed the Great Mosque of Niono, a masterpiece of Sudano-Sahelian architecture. His work, which used sun-dried mud bricks and traditional techniques, won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1983.
Damascus
Sousse · 1979
Prominent French architect and urban planner known for his contextual work in the Maghreb and his commitment to Islamic architecture. His Dar Lamia hotel complex in Tunisia earned him the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1983.
Kuala Terengganu · 1979
