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The contest was the brainchild of Toshiko Mori, the first female chair of the GSD architecture department. “Toshiko is a true believer in promoting projects for students, getting our hands into architecture and involving us in the campus,” says Elizabeth Ghiseline, student coordinator of...
The Aga Khan ’59, spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muslims, joined the presidents of Harvard and MIT Friday to launch the world’s largest online resource for scholars of Islamic architecture.
The resource, called ArchNet, contains over 600,000 images of Islamic architecture, tools for discussion and collaboration online among scholars and access to key journals of Islamic architecture.
In a video presentation that followed the three leaders’ opening remarks, William J. Mitchell, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, said the goal was to make ArchNet not only a database of images, but also a “center of academic activity.?...
ArchNet grew out of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT, which he endowed in 1979.