Professor Zainab Faruqui Ali, Chairperson of the Department of Architecture under the School of Architecture and Design of BRAC University, delivered a lecture at The Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently. The lecture titled “The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Projects and Impacts” on 20 October, 2022 was organized by the Aga Khan Graduate Program in Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT.
Professor Ali presented a number of selected projects of the prestigious award in terms of their impacts or influences in the areas of sustainability, public realm, conservation, spirituality and community. The audience was composed of students of a multidisciplinary course of the AKPIA. The event concluded with a discussion.