The practice, founded in Paris by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal in 1987, becomes the sixth recipient of the award, bestowed annually by Sir John
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Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such buildings form the settings for events both ordinary and extraordinary, shaping not only the ways we engage and remember these events, but also quietly defining how we see […]
Hanif Kara
Structural engineer Hanif Kara is co-founder and design director of AKT II, a design-led structural and civil engineering firm in London.
Hanif is a professor at Harvard UniversityGSD and has lectured at KTH Stockholm and the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
He is a member of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committee, sits on the ETH Zürich NCCR digital fabrication Scientific Review Panel and is a member of the UK Government s National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. He was also on the RIBA Gold Medal Jury in 2020 and the Sterling Prize Jury in 2011.