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Event - 1998-11-11

Date: 
Wednesday, 1998, November 11
Location: 

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture acknowledges both the sacred and the secular in the Islamic world'

person_place_reference: 
H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


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Aga Khan-1998-11-11

199810pv34
Source: 
Point de Vue

Rewarding buildings-1998-11-07

Source: 
The Globe and Mail

Norwegian architecture students Per Christian Brynildsen and Jan Olav Jensen were on a student group tour of India and Nepal in 1983 when they took an unexpected detour. They left their classmates to help missionaries plan and design a lepers hospital near Chopda Taluka in the Indian state of Maharastra. Caught up with their first chance to build, the two stayed out of school for a year to complete the project. They helped the patients quarry the nearby sandstone, collect teak wood for windows and use a concrete aerator, the only power tool used in the entire hospital's construction.

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