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Farrokh Derakhshani - Edinburgh International Culture Summit

    Farrokh Derakhshani is Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has been associated with the Award since His main field of specialisation is the contemporary.
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Farrokh Derakhshani - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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    In conversation with Farrokh Derakhshani

    Forty years after Farrokh Derakhshani signed up for a five-month contract with AKDN, he is still here. For the past 16 years, he has served as the Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. With the Award in its 45th year, he reflects how it has changed attitudes towards architecture.


    “Architecture is one of the very few disciplines that touches all levels of society. It has an impact on your daily life,” says Farrokh. “If quality of life is only going to be health, education, the monetary level, that is not enough. If you don't have the culture, it will not bind all these things together.”


    For Farrokh, the most important projects are those, particularly in poor areas, where people of different ethnicities and faiths are brought together. This resonates with the importance His Highness the Aga Khan places on pluralism. “Architecture means doing something for society,” Farrokh says. “That's