Indigenous high-tech. Aga Khan University, Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Can a university hospital be indigenous, rooted in a traditional vernacular, and high-tech all at once? Challenged by the Aga Khan to design such a phenomenon, architects Thomas Payette and Mozhan Khadem have produced a unique medical complex that could become a prototype for other such facilities in the Third World.
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