Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Logo for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Awarded forArchitectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.
Sponsored byAga Khan IV
Reward(s)US$1-million
First awarded1978; 46 years ago (1978)
Last awarded2022
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.[1]

The award is associated with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

  1. ^ "Aga Khan Award for Architecture Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine." ArchitectureWeek 9 January 2002.