The exhibition gives an overview of the 20 projects that were shortlisted for the 2019 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, including the 6 awarded projects of which the Revitalization of Muharraq. The overview of projects include projects from across the Islamic World, from Bangladesh to Senegal, Palestine and China.
In this house specifically, you see: how it became a city? How it grew? What were its first features? And the context for an entire life Muharraq lived in the nineteen eighties. The Architectural Heritage House is home to the artistic works, drawings, architectural photographs gathered or drawn by the architect John Yarwood in homage to his stay in the city of Muharraq between 1983 and 1985.
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