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Seminars & Exhibitions
Each year, a subject area for study would be chosen and a programme of field study tours organized around it. This would be followed by a public seminar and exhibition to raise public awareness on the subject, and the publication of the proceedings. Five successive yearly seminars and related exhibitions were held from 1989 to 1993.

1989: Hindu Temples Shahiya period (7th to 10th century AC).
1990: Sultanate Period Architecture in Pakistan
1991: Historic Towns of Pakistan
1992: Urban Domestic Architectural Traditions in Pakistan
1993: Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan

In 1999 the Anjuman initiated an email discussion on Modernity & Tradition. An enthusiastic international debate ensued, which it plans to publish. An outcome of this debate was the tabling of an urban design concept for sustainable green urban communities as an answer to the urabanisation problems of Pakistan. This concept was the theme of a one-day seminar on Urban Communities in March 2000, hosted by the Lahore School of Economics.

The Anjuman Mimaran and Maktaba-e-Anaveem Pakistan (MAP), People's Forum for Contextual Theologies have jointly launched an annual seminar series on 'Art & Spirituality' with the aim of deepening awareness and unity amongst the various religious traditions of our region through presenting a view of the world and of man based on a sacred manner of looking at things, and the expressions of this worldview in the various traditional arts, most directly the sacred arts. The first seminar of the series was a two-day seminar on the theme of 'Art and Spirituality' in May 2003. The second seminar of this series titled 'The Role of the Artist' was held in April 2004.

Recording Traditional building vocabularies, methods and techniques
As part of the Anjuman's program to document, learn and publish traditional building methods and techniques used by hereditary master craftsmen, a series of sixteen colloquiums were conducted by 83-year old master mason Ustad Haji Abdul Aziz from February to June 2000. Topics covered included, polygons, arches, domes, minaret, and geometric patterns.

Workshops
June 2000: A 5-week Summer Workshop in Naqqashi (Fresco Painting) conducted by Ustad Saif-ur-Rahman, with the support of the National College of Arts. The workshop was in the context of an on-going restoration of the 17th century tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Bihari, for which Anjuman is the consultant.

March-April 2004: A 10-Day Workshop on architectural calligraphy conducted by Ustad Khursheed Alam Gohar Qalm, focussing on the calligraphy of Wazir Khan Mosque and Taj Mahal.

September 2004: Two-day Workshop on: Calligraphy & Illumination: by Ustad Rasheed Butt (Recipient Presidential Pride of Performance Award) in collaboration with Council of Calligraphers Pakistan.

 

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