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Architecture and plurality : AGA Khan award for architecture 2016
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ISBN: 9783037785232 Year: 2016 Publisher: Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers,

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One guiding principle of this cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is the importance of plurality. Since its inception the Award has aimed to be inclusive and to embrace the engagement of a diverse group of users. But equally, it has sought projects that explore a plurality of methods and architectures in achieving that goal. Here, the authors of the essays use that productive tension between architecture and plurality not only to provide a framework for the examination of the projects but also to explore the intellectual and projective means by which architecture and plurality can find other common grounds in the future.


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Right to passage
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ISBN: 9351509605 9351509613 9789351509608 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Delhi

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"In 2011, Zeeshan Khan decided to travel from Dhaka via India and Pakistan to Iran and on to Europe. This book traces his journey till he left the borders of Iran, a distance he completed in about 60 days. For Khan the journey was about travelling along a historical route steeped in cultures, languages, religions and races, woven together as a an indivisible whole, elements of which had gone into making him the cosmopolitan, yet rooted, South Asian individual. While India represented somewhat familiar terrain, travelling through contemporary Pakistan and Iran was a particular eye-opener for the author. Much of the current realities of the region are reflected in the book, along with Khan's own commentary about what he observed and encountered. Equally a pleasure to read for the armchair traveller or the seasoned one, the book is a stunning snapshot of life along a well-worn route known for its spiritual depth and philosophical richness"--Provided by publisher.


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Le Coran de Gwalior : polysémie d'un manuscrit à peintures
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ISBN: 9782701804439 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de Boccard,

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The Jalayirids : dynastic state formation in the Mongol Middle East
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ISBN: 1474418848 1474410936 1474402267 1474402259 9781474402255 9781474410939 9781474402262 1474426379 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book examines the rise and collapse of Mongol rule in Iran and Iraq, and its revival by a family of sultans who claimed to be the rightful heirs to the Mongol khans. The Jalayirids offers a glimpse at a long overlooked but critical period in the history of the Middle East in the late medieval period.


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Imaginative bodies : dialogues in performance practices
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ISBN: 9789492095206 9492095203 Year: 2016 Volume: 22 Publisher: Amsterdam Valiz

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Imaginative Bodies' contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, Hip Hop artists, dramaturgs, a lighting designer and a puppeteer. The overall theme is defined by the body, both in relation to the place it takes in the artist's work, and in relation to wider debates on the body in philosophy, science, medicine, anthropology, and the arts. Depending on the affinities of the artist, a more specific theme has been defined for each dialogue, ranging from poetics to politics, from mythology to ecology, from intercultural studies to conflict management. The associative chains of thoughts of these talks give an intimate insight into the creative process, inspirations, sources, identity, and ways of collaborating. It is through the sentient body that we experience, know and imagine. 'Imaginative Bodies' reaffirms the central position of the body in many artistic practices.

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