Islamic Architecture 

Architecture and art databases

Charters and Legislation on Architectural Preservation - Islamic Architecture

The Aga Khan Visual Archive

Mosques in the United States

A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India

Rotch Visual Collections holdings in Islamic architecture include the RVC Teaching Collection, Aga Khan Award for Architecture images, and the Kidder Smith India Collection.

Refer also to the Rotch Visual Collections page for general information about finding images, and to The Aga Khan Visual Archive page of this Guide for information about its visual holdings.

Teaching Collection

The Teaching Collection in Rotch Visual Collections contains images, maps, plans, and drawings of Islamic art, architecture, and cities in support of the activities and curriculum of the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture.  The slide collection is open for research to all members of the MIT community.  Images are subject to copyright protection and may only be used within fair use guidelines.

We invite faculty members to make requests for new acquisitions needed for courses and seminars; please contact Andrea Schuler.

Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Rotch Visual Collections has a large collection of slides of projects submitted to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.  These images depict original designs, restoration, conservation, and urbanization projects around the world, and are available for reproduction for educational use and for publication.

Kidder Smith India Collection

The Architecture of India slide collection contains over 2,000 images of Indian architecture taken by the architect and architectural photographer G.E. Kidder Smith.  The images document sites in India ranging from early Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sites to 20th century works by Le Corbusier and are available for reproduction for educational uses and publication.

A sampling of some of the strengths found in the Islamic image collections:

        Hyderabad, India                      Cairo, Egypt                    Mughal Architecture in India

All images found in DOME.  MIT certificates required to see full-sized images.

Omar Khalidi
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Andrea Schuler
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