The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
Fall 2022 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
(All lectures are in person, in Cambridge MA)
October 13, 2022, 6:00pm
“The Textility of the Alhambra”
Olga Bush
Visiting Scholar, Vassar College
November 10, 2022, 6:00pm
“Islamic Architecture for Wisdom: Looking Back on the Classical Legacy”
Susana Calvo Capilla
AKPIA Fellow; Titular Professor, History of Art Department, Complutense University of Madrid
November 17, 2022, 6:00pm
“The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a 13th Century Sultan-Queen: Shajar al-Durr of Egypt”
D. Fairchild Ruggles
Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture; Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Co-Sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway (Basement Auditorium), Cambridge, MA.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
We anticipate that the Calvo Capilla and Ruggles lectures will be recorded and made available at the AKPIA website, after the event date.
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