Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 - Inclusive Architecture The release of the Aga Khan Award
for Architecture every three years is an enormously important moment for the architecture
world. The projects recognized by this Award represent the vanguard of thinking and practice in
architecture that goes beyond the regular scope of building planning and preservation through
its strong impact on the needs and aspirations of societies. This publication presents the
twenty shortlisted projects including the six recipients of the 2020-22 cycle of the Award.
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture's mandate is different from that of many other architecture
prizes: it not only rewards architects but also identifies municipalities builders clients
artisans and engineers who have played essential roles in the realization of a project. This
publication thus presents the projects from various viewpoints alongside detailed and
up-to-date images and descriptions. The acclaimed interdisciplinary master jury and steering
committee of this cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture that determines the projects
presented include David Chipperfield Francis Kéré Anna Lacaton Marina Tabassum and Sarah M.
Whiting to name but a few. Scholarly essays across various disciplines from members of the
master jury and steering committee round out the publication. Contributions include a text on
the optimism of humanity by Souleymane Bachir Diagne director of the Institute of African
Studies Columbia University and a contextualization of Modern Architecture in the Muslim
World by Sibel Bozdogan of Boston University. Kazi Khaleed Ashraf director-general of the
Bengal Institute for Architecture Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka Bangladesh writes on
the perspective of the dialogical while Nasser Rabbat the Aga Khan Professor at MIT shares
notes on architecture as a humanist empire. The texts also include a Salon des Refusés by Nader
Teherani founding principal of Boston-based architecture firm NADAAA. The texts which come
from a wide range of geographies are informative and descriptive often striking an emotional
note. Together with the project presentations the publication thereby guides the reader
through a contemplation of an architectural question of increasing urgency in our current times
of crisis: how to build ethically for our shared global future. With contributions by Kazi
Khaleed Ashraf Sibel Bozdogan Souleymane Bachir Diagne Farrokh Derakhshani Nasser Rabbat
Nader Teherani and Sarah M. Whiting.
