Aga Khan honoured
The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims and the head of one of the world's largest private development agencies, has received the prestigious 2005 Vincent Scully Award for his contributions to architecture and historic preservation in the Muslim world.
At a recent ceremony in the National Building Museum in Washington, the chairwoman of the museum's board of trustees, Carolyn Schwenker Brody, said the Aga Khan has been chosen for the 2005 Scully award "in tribute to the immense impact the Aga Khan is making, creating a beautiful window through which we can view the Muslim world." The Aga Khan has been a patron of Muslim architecture and urban planning since 1977 when he founded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. With prizes of 500,000 dollars, it is the world's richest architectural award.
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