Harvard Program for Islamic Architecture lecture series

The Harvard University Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is conducting a series of lectures from September 2009 till April 2010 on Islamic architecture, titled “Picturing the Levant in Renaissance Italy”, “The Foundation of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo and the Dialogue over Fountains between Two Cities”, “Mamluk Art and Europe”, “Staging the City: How Mamluk Architecture Coopted the Streets of Cairo”, “Architectural Masterpieces of the Deccan Sultanates: Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur”, “All That Glitters: Image and Ornament in Early Islam”, “Cultural Modeling and Identity in the Western Mediterranean”. Check them out.

Date: September 5, 2009