Winner Announced of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture and its Award Jury are pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award!
Award Winner
Roberto Fabbri, ‘The Contextual Linkage: Visual Metaphors and Analogies in Recent Gulf Museums’ Architecture’, The Journal of Architecture 27: 2–3, 2022, pp. 372–97.
Honourable Mention
Sami Zerari, Vincenzo Pace, and Leila Sriti, ‘Towards an Understanding of the Local Interpretations of the Arab Mosque Model in the Saharan Regions. Re-exploration of the Ziban in South-Eastern Algeria’, ArcHistoR 10, 2023, pp. 97–129.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is pleased to offer this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The Award winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a 2-year subscription to IJIA, and the honourable mention winner will receive a 2-year subscription to IJIA. We are extremely grateful to the members of the 2024 jury, Professors Kishwar Rizvi, Leïla el-Wakil, and James L. Wescoat Jr., for their time and expertise in judging submissions for this year’s award, and to the chair of the Award Committee, Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
The Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award will be offered every two years. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2024 or 2025 will be eligible for the 2026 award. For the criteria by which papers will be judged and the submission process, see our website.
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Academic Editor of IJIA from 2012 to 2021, Hasan-Uddin Khan is an architect trained at the AA in London and a writer who has worked and lived all over the globe. He considers himself a modern nomad who believes in crossing boundaries – both geographic and disciplinary. Professor Khan was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Mimar: Architecture in Development. He helped form the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1977 and was its second Convenor and a Steering Committee member. He coordinated His Highness the Aga Khan’s worldwide architectural activities between 1984 and 1994. After being a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT, he joined Roger Williams University in 1999 as Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation and twice was a Visiting Professor at Berkeley during his sabbaticals. He is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Roger Williams University. Professor Khan has served on several international architecture juries, lectures widely and is the editor/author of nine books and over sixty published articles.
