Nasser Rabbat

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture
Director, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

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  • Out of Antiquity

    The “Dead Cities” in Syria and their Islamic Architectural Legacy October 15, 2024 – December 19, 2024 The “Dead Cities,” a romantic Orientalist name given to a group of over 820 settlements in northwestern Syria, present the most complete classical rural setting in the world. Masterfully carved out of gray limestone and built without cement, many…

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