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Multiple layers: The Aga Khan Museum and Complex Tammy Gaber To appreciate North York’s newly opened Aga Khan Museum (AKM), one must first understand its patron, as this undertaking is only the most recent in a long line of proactive institutions and projects initiated by the Aga Khan all over the world.
In fact, this striking building located within a complex of the Ismaili Center and gardens, is the first North American museum dedicated exclusively to Islamic arts and culture.
In an unusual but highly insightful move, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture organized a series of temporary exhibits that would travel throughout Europe prior to their permanent display in Toronto.
The inaugural exhibitions included the “In Search of the Artist-Signed Drawings and Paintings from the AKM Collection” in the permanent gallery, “The Garden of Ideas Contem porary Art from Pakistan” in the travelling exhibits’ gallery, and site-specific installations in the buildings and the garden area.
The Aga Khan Museum, North York, ON, Canada Maki and the architect of record, Toronto-based Moriyama and Teshima, expressed this vision flawlessly in the subtle and considered spaces created within the overall structure.
The building, given its apparent simplicity of form yet complete dedica tion to the quality of materials and finishes, is both the receptacle for high lighting the collections and activities and simultaneously the representation of what the Aga Khan projects envision: highly contemporary and highly rel evant architecture that expresses the ideals of Islam.