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OPENING REMARKS AT THE SEMINAR TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD OF THE AKAA - 1978-09-26

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
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In 1980, the first Aga Khan Award for Architecture will be presented. Prior to that, five seminars are to be held to discuss various criteria and categories for the Award, as well as some of the other mundane aspects of its organization. Though this is the second seminar chronologically, it is the first one to be held in a country of the Islamic world, and I therefore attach particular regard to its participants and importance to its subject matter.

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