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--- Jack Kennedy <jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jack Kennedy <jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx>
> To: "'mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx'"
> <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "Romi Khosla (E-mail)" <romi_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Aga Khan Award for Architecture
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:19:42 +0200
>
> Geneva, 23rd April 2004
>
> Dear Ms. Dewan Verma,
>
> Many thanks for your e-mail and your interest in the
> activities of the Aga
> Khan Award for Architecture. My colleagues and I
> will be travelling to India
> soon for a short visit and would be interested to
> meet you and to discuss
> your concerns about the previous Aga Khan
> Award-winning projects in India
> and other countries. We will be staying in Delhi on
> 5th and 6th May. May I
> ask you kindly to contact Mr. Romi Khosla, who is a
> long-time associate of
> the Award and is helping us to arrange meetings with
> various professionals
> during our visit. If the dates of 5th & 6th May are
> not convenient for you,
> we can surely arrange another time during the course
> of our forthcoming
> visits to India, which will be frequent this year.
>
> Mr. Romi Khosla
> C-9 Maharani Bagh
> New Delhi 110 065
> India
> Office: (91.11) 2683.7015
> E-Mail: romi_k@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Jack Kennedy
> The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gita Dewan Verma
> [mailto:mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 17:08
> To: jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx
> Subject: AKAA Award Ceremony in India, previous
> Awards in India
>
>
> Dear Mr Kennedy,
>
> As per media reports in India the Award ceremony for
> AKAA 2004 will be held in Agra Fort in India.
>
> There remain some outstanding clarifications about
> Indian projects honoured in the last three cycles,
> viz, Aranya low-income housing in Indore (largely
> not
> built to date), Slum Networking in Indore
> (established
> by the official impact study prior to the Award as
> being a civic disaster), and Barefoot College at
> Tilonia (where AKAA left out the architect of the
> project from its honour and, to date, from the prize
> money).
>
> The award for Slum Networking - an approach of
> riverfront slum development for slum-free cities -
> calls for further clarification in view also of
> ongoing massive evictions (at instance of the same
> Ministry that has announced the AKAA Award Ceremony
> in
> India), of riverfront slums for making the city slum
> free. Other joint initiatives of said Ministry and
> the
> Foundation have also involved evictions in a manner
> inconsistent with AKAA for low-income housing / slum
> projects in India. That the illusion of antipathy
> between heritage and slum interventions should
> persist
> despite close involvement in both of the Foundation
> as
> well as aid agencies working closely with it is
> unfortunate, especially since sovereign law in India
> adequately provides for conflict resolution.
>
> Reiterating the suggestion made previously to the
> Foundation to incorporate in its selection
> procedures
> opportunity for local public comment to offset any
> possibility of nomination, jury, etc, errors, it is
> requested that prior to holding an award ceremony in
> India the Foundation clarify its views on
> reservations
> expressed about its prior awards for Indian
> projects.
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely
>
> Gita Dewan Verma / Planner
>
> cc: For information
> ò Council of Architecture
>
__________________________________
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--- Jack Kennedy <jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jack Kennedy <jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx>
> To: "'mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx'"
> <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "Romi Khosla (E-mail)" <romi_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Aga Khan Award for Architecture
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:19:42 +0200
>
> Geneva, 23rd April 2004
>
> Dear Ms. Dewan Verma,
>
> Many thanks for your e-mail and your interest in the
> activities of the Aga
> Khan Award for Architecture. My colleagues and I
> will be travelling to India
> soon for a short visit and would be interested to
> meet you and to discuss
> your concerns about the previous Aga Khan
> Award-winning projects in India
> and other countries. We will be staying in Delhi on
> 5th and 6th May. May I
> ask you kindly to contact Mr. Romi Khosla, who is a
> long-time associate of
> the Award and is helping us to arrange meetings with
> various professionals
> during our visit. If the dates of 5th & 6th May are
> not convenient for you,
> we can surely arrange another time during the course
> of our forthcoming
> visits to India, which will be frequent this year.
>
> Mr. Romi Khosla
> C-9 Maharani Bagh
> New Delhi 110 065
> India
> Office: (91.11) 2683.7015
> E-Mail: romi_k@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Jack Kennedy
> The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gita Dewan Verma
> [mailto:mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 17:08
> To: jack.kennedy@xxxxxxx
> Subject: AKAA Award Ceremony in India, previous
> Awards in India
>
>
> Dear Mr Kennedy,
>
> As per media reports in India the Award ceremony for
> AKAA 2004 will be held in Agra Fort in India.
>
> There remain some outstanding clarifications about
> Indian projects honoured in the last three cycles,
> viz, Aranya low-income housing in Indore (largely
> not
> built to date), Slum Networking in Indore
> (established
> by the official impact study prior to the Award as
> being a civic disaster), and Barefoot College at
> Tilonia (where AKAA left out the architect of the
> project from its honour and, to date, from the prize
> money).
>
> The award for Slum Networking - an approach of
> riverfront slum development for slum-free cities -
> calls for further clarification in view also of
> ongoing massive evictions (at instance of the same
> Ministry that has announced the AKAA Award Ceremony
> in
> India), of riverfront slums for making the city slum
> free. Other joint initiatives of said Ministry and
> the
> Foundation have also involved evictions in a manner
> inconsistent with AKAA for low-income housing / slum
> projects in India. That the illusion of antipathy
> between heritage and slum interventions should
> persist
> despite close involvement in both of the Foundation
> as
> well as aid agencies working closely with it is
> unfortunate, especially since sovereign law in India
> adequately provides for conflict resolution.
>
> Reiterating the suggestion made previously to the
> Foundation to incorporate in its selection
> procedures
> opportunity for local public comment to offset any
> possibility of nomination, jury, etc, errors, it is
> requested that prior to holding an award ceremony in
> India the Foundation clarify its views on
> reservations
> expressed about its prior awards for Indian
> projects.
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely
>
> Gita Dewan Verma / Planner
>
> cc: For information
> ò Council of Architecture
>
__________________________________
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