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Under the title 'Who is the Aga Khan?', Marisa Bartolucci wrote in the September issue of the magazine Metropolis, 'Since the days of the Fatimids, Ismaili Imams have encouraged intellectual freedom and tolerance. For them, like the Aga Khan today, the Koran and its teachings were open to each individual's interpretation and could never be dictated.' The Cover page title is 'Muslim Modernity: Can the Aga Khan build a new Islamic World?'. Generous and complex, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture singles out projects that give back to their communities as much as they push the boundries of formal expression. Marisa Bartolucci asks why the Western world hears little about this extraordinary program and the work of its winners.