AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Degrees Offered
Harvard
PhD in History of Art and Architecture
MIT
SM Arch S in Design for Islamic Societies
PhD in Architecture, Art and Environmental Studies, primarily in the area of History, Theory and Criticism

Courses
No courses are offered through the program directly, but through:

Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture Department
Critical Issues in Islamic Art and Architecture: Seminar
The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
Architecture and Dynastic Legitimacy : The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires (15th-17th Centuries)
Architectural Practice in the Islamic World
Court Workshops in the Post-Mongol Islamic World
Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of  Sinan
Introduction to Later Islamic Art and Architecture
Issues in Ottoman Architectural Culture
Visual Encounters: Artistic Relations between Europe and the Islamic World
Early Islamic Art and Architecture
Art of the House of Tamerlane
Islamic Pilgrimage
Arts of the Islamic Book
Collecting Culture: Albums of the Timurid, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties
Persian Painting of the 14^th – 17^th Centuries
Islamic and Asian Calligraphy
Genghis Khan and His Legacy

MIT, Department of Architecture
The Architecture of Cairo
Issues in Islamic Urbanism
Special Problems in Non-Western Architecture
Special Interest Group, SIGUS Workshop
Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures
The Making of the Discourse on Islamic Architecture
Introduction to Design Inquiry
Architecture and Urban Contexts
Building Technology Laboratory
Design Research Seminar
Special Studies in Islamic Architecture

Faculty
Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts
Gülrü Necipoglu (art history)
David Roxburgh (art history)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nasser Rabbat (history of Islamic architecture) 
Students
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is a graduate program only.
Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture
PhD, 12 (8 female, 4 male)
MIT, Department of Architecture, Program in History, Theory and Criticism
PhD, 5 (5 female)
MIT, Department of Architecture SM Arch S Program
SM Arch S, 8 (3 male, 5 female)

Degrees Granted in 1999-2000
MIT, Department of Architecture, Program in History, Theory and Criticism
SM Arch S, 6  (3 male, 3 female)- projected
PhD 2 (female)

Degrees Granted in 1999-2000
Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture
PhD, 1 awarded (female), 3 tentative (2 female, 1 male)

Director for Islamic Architecture at MIT
Nasser Rabbat, Ph.D.

Scholarships/Graduate Support
Program funds are available for those students in Islamic art, architecture, and urban history, who have been admitted to, or are already enrolled in the PhD program in fine arts at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, and in the PhD Program in History, Theory and Criticism, or the S M Arch S Design for Islamic Societies Program, in the Department of Architecture at MIT.

Inquiries
For general information
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10-390, 77 Mas­sachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
617-253-1400
fax 617-258-8172
akpiarch@mit.edu
web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/a/akpia/www/

Inquiries regarding admission to, and financial aid for, the programs of the two institutions should be addressed to the appropriate department and not to the Aga Khan Program. 

Inquiries regarding admission to MIT:
Admissions Coordinator
Department of Architecture
MIT
7-303, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307

Applications to Harvard:
Admissions Office
Graduate School of Arts and Science
Byerly Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2003