Mosaic Foundation's Architectural Competition
The Board of the Mosaic Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of
an architectural competition for design visions of a future Arab
Cultural Center to be built in Washington, D.C. This center is intended
to provide a major venue for public use in the nation's capital
providing exhibition halls, event spaces, a theater, learning and
research space as well as office space for the organization. The Center
is intended to foster knowledge of the Arab world by providing a place
where information in the arts, sciences and culture can be exchanged.
The Mosaic Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1998
by the spouses of the Arab Ambassadors to the United States. Its goal
is to aid women and children in their local U.S. communities and
internationally while building bridges of understanding between the
peoples of the United States and the Arab World. To date the Mosaic
Foundation has raised and donated approximately $7.3 million for
organizations and institutions such as St. Jude's Childrens Research
Hospital, Save the Children, the Grameen Foundation and Susan G. Komen
Foundation - National Race for the Cure.
This architectural competition will launch the Foundation's efforts for
this center. The winning architectural designs will be used by the
Mosaic Foundation to begin a fully developed endowment campaign to raise
the funds necessary for the project.
Envisioning Architecture
An Open Competition for Visions of an Arab Cultural Center, Washington
DC, USA.
Type: Ideas, visions
Project: Arab Cultural Center
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Sponsor: The Mosaic Foundation, www.mosaicfound.org
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Jury: Gulzar Haider, Emeritus Professor of Architecture
Principal, GHDesign Group, Toronto, Canada
Nasser Rabbat, Agha Khan Professor of the History of
Islamic Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
HRH Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, Chair of the Board of
Trustees The Mosaic Foundation
Fourth Juror: to be confirmed
mario cipresso death by architecture los angeles, california, usa,
www.deathbyarchitecture.com mario.cipresso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx international
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