Inspiring Architecture - Madrasa al-Ghiyathiyya

The Madrasa al-Ghiyathiyya is located in Khargird, a village 147 kilometers southwest of Mashad in Khorasan province. The madrasa takes its name from its founder Pir Ahmad, who was Shah Rukh's (1405-1447) vazir, under the title of Ghiyath al-Din, from 1417 until his death in 1447. Inscriptions reveal that the madrasa was designed and built mainly by the engineer Qavam al-Din Shirazi between 1438-1444. However, he died before its completion, at which time another architect took up the remaining work. The calligrapher, Jalal al-Din, was the same man who worked on Gauhar Shad's madrasa at Herat.... 

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Saturday May 18th, 2013: Symposium in London

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May 2013 Symposium: A Search for the Timeless

in Sacred Art and Architecture

A Search for the Time-less in Sacred Art and Architecture:
The Case of an Architectural Practice in Lahore & an Arts and Crafts
Institution in London 

This symposium is to discuss the place of traditional art and architecture in the 
contemporary world together with its underlying language of geometry, and to 
examine the different challenges faced by the East (Pakistan) and 
the West (United Kingdom).

LECTURES:

• Kamil Khan Mumtaz (Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Architects)
‘Continuing Tradition: Four Decades of Architectural Practice in Lahore,
Pakistan’

• Taimoor Khan Mumtaz (Hast-o-Neest Institute)
‘In Search of the ‘Timeless’: Geometric Proportioning in Mughal Architecture’

• Paul Marchant (The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts)
‘Polishing the Mirror’—The Eternal Archetype reflected in Natural and
Cosmic Order. The Discipline of Geometry and the Continuous Renewal 
of the Traditional Arts and Crafts

Saturday May 18th, 2013
9.15am–4.30pm

Royal Asiatic Society
14 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
(nearest underground Euston / Euston Square)

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Workshop IV at NED Karachi 2013

At NED Karachi

10^th – 18^th February, 2013

Workshop:

Taj Mahal - In Search of the Essence of its Beauty.

(Geometrical Proportioning in Mughal Architecture)

Conducted by Taimoor Khan Mumtaz

 Highlights

Theoretical Frame-work for the understanding of Islamic Art & Architecture.

Practical exposure to the use of Geometry in design.

Methods & Vocabulary of design used in Mughal Architecture.

Geometric Analysis of Mughal Architecture.

Concluding Exhibition

Article in Express Tribune

"The light sky blue signifies the mercy of God and it is used heavily in early Islamic scripture... Dark blue, the colour of the tiles used for the lower half of the verandah walls, signifies mysticism in Islam. The golden and black arch (mehrab) signalling the direction of the Kaaba is inspired by the tomb of Bayazid Bastami in Iran," Iqbal Salahuddin PHOTO. ABID NAWAZ/EXPRESS

LAHORE:Iqbal Salahuddin has a passion for Islamic architecture in Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Iran and the Subcontinent. So when building a mosque in memory of his father, he decided to borrow from them.

“I wanted to incorporate similar colour themes here,” he says, pointing to the hues of blue in the under-construction mosque at a one-kanal site in Salli Town, which is named after his father Mian Salahuddin, the son-in-law of Allama Iqbal.

“The light sky blue signifies the mercy of God and it is used heavily in early Islamic scripture,” says Salahuddin. Dark blue, the colour of the tiles used for the lower half of the verandah walls, signifies mysticism in Islam, he says. A golden and black arch (mehrab) signalling the direction of the Kaaba is inspired by the tomb of Bayazid Bastami in Iran.

There are inspirations from closer to home too. The floral frescoes are modelled on Masjid Wazir Khan and Masjid Bibi Khanum. Architect Kamil Khan Mumtaz, an authority on Mughal architecture, designed the building.

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