The archives of the Middle East Technical University Journal of the Faculty of Architecture are available online, with articles on topics ranging from dovecotes in Isfahan to an ontological approach to the conservation of urban space.

Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki‘s design for the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Vladimir Djurovic’s Chahar Bagh-inspired gardens complement the ultra-modern building, which is part of a larger complex that also includes a new Ismaili Center. The Agha Khan Museum online gallery contains some of the objects to be housed in the new museum.

Via No Mean City.

The results of Adam Smith’s landscape survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain (the Armenian transcaucases) contain some intriguing medieval sites, in particular the 30 hectare medieval settlement Sahakaberd Settlement 01.

For the eastern side of Soghdia, check out the Silk Road Project (Turfan Survey) hosted by Yale. If only the conference papers were up as pdfs, but theoretically they’re available as photocopies.