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

Omar Khalidi            
Collections Librarian            
Rotch Architecture Library            
MIT Room 7-238            
77 Mass. Ave.            
Cambridge, MA
02139-4307            
Tel: 617-258-5597            
e-mail: okhalidi@mit.edu
MIT map & directions

Islamic Architecture Image Collections
MIT Room 7-304           
77 Mass. Ave.            
Cambridge, MA
02139-4307         
Tel: 617-253-6209
MIT map & directions            

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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            

Jeffrey Spurr
Visual Materials
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138-3802
Tel: 617-495-3372
Fax: 617-496-4889
e-mail: spurr@fas.harvard.edu