Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Indian projects in three consecutive cycles of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1995, 1998, 2001) "innovate" outside boundaries of planning law and/or professional practice. Claims of intent to promote innovations to improve systems they transcend ring hollow in all these classic cases of emperor’s new clothes. More significant questions arise out of the complicity of silence about the nudity. | + Update, AKAA-2004: ...The party to humble all parties was hosted by no less than the Aga Khan at Humayun's Tomb, a celebration that history has no choice but to flag for rare humiliation... |

Protest about Indore projects (AKAA 1995, 1998) — by admin — last modified 2004-11-08 00:52

Letter of January 2000 to Council of Architecture President about the protest about AKAA projects outside the 16th National Convention of the Indian Institute of Architects on 25-26 December 1999 at Indore.

Indore Habitat Improvement Project (AKAA, 1998) — by admin — last modified 2004-11-08 00:52

Critique based on work as senior consultant on the commissioned impact assessment study and subsequent independent research

Tilonia Barefoot College (AKAA, 2001) — by admin — last modified 2004-11-08 00:52

Award (controversy) Barefoot Architects - "controversy" arising from exclusion from the award of the project architect (qualified, shod) on basis of NGO claims, etc, about "barefoot architecture"

eml communication with AKAA, April 2004 — by admin — last modified 2004-11-08 00:52

To raise outstanding questions about previous awards in context of news reports of proposed award ceremony in India in 2004 (there was a meeting in May and in July several publications were received)

Invitation to PM to AKAA celebration at residence of Mr Raina — by Gita Dewan Verma — last modified 2004-12-19 01:13

This is to invite you on occasion of Aga Khan Award for Architecture – AKAA – Ninth Cycle Award ceremony to a celebration at the residence of Mr Neehar Raina (D-132, Andheria Morh, Vasant Kunj). I am aware this invitation must seem extremely odd, but it is not so at all for several reasons, of which three directly related to it are as follows.

Aga Khan Award ceremony at Humayun's Tomb, 27.11.2004 — by admin — last modified 2005-09-09 02:01

In Delhi on 27 November 2004, flagged by astrologers for rare confluence of favourable signs for weddings and alliances, ostentation unembarrassed by riches raged in Saturday night fever. The party to humble all parties was hosted by no less than the Aga Khan at Humayun's Tomb, a celebration that history has no choice but to flag for rare humiliation.