LIBRARY RESOURCES

 

Library services and collections of printed and visual materials on Islamic art, architecture and urbanism have been developed at both Harvard and MIT with assistance from AKPIA funds. The Harvard collections, housed in the Fine Arts Library at the Fogg Museum, document the art, architecture, and visual culture of the Islamic world, with an emphasis on the period before 1900. The MIT collections, in the Rotch Architecture Library, concentrate on architecture and urban development in contemporary Islamic cultures. Visual archives at both Harvard and MIT constitute an image repository for materials that have been produced or funded by AKPIA, or that have been donated to it. These collections provide images of a cross-section of Islamic art and architecture of historical importance [Harvard Fine Arts Library] and contemporary architecture, buildings, cities, and monuments designed for Islamic societies [MIT Rotch Visual collection].

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MIT Rotch Library, Collections and Visual Archives:
Contemporary Practice and Urbanism in the Islamic World

Sharon C. Smith
Program Head, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Documentation Center Building 7-238
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-324-5022
e-mail: scsmith@mit.edu
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Andrea Schuler
Aga Khan Visual Archivist
Aga Khan Documentation Center Building 7-238
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-253-6129
e-mail: aschuler@mit.edu          
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History of Islamic Art and Architecture:
Harvard Fine Arts Library AKP Documentation Center

András Riedlmayer
AKPIA Bibliographer
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138-3802
Tel: 617-495-3372
Fax: 617-496-4889
e-mail: riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu