Welcome to ARCHNET, an open access, interdisciplinary, intellectual resource focused on the built environment of Muslim societies.

Focused on the built environment of Islamic civilizations past and present, we seek to:

• Facilitate excellence in scholarship and professional work by providing reliable information and ready access to vetted, high-quality textual and multimedia resources focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, heritage conservation, economic and environmental sustainability, community development and resilience in the face of rapid change, and related topics.
• Enable teaching and learning in these domains by providing educators with reliable, effective pedagogical material and teaching aids. 
• Serve as a platform through which scholars, practitioners, and institutions can bring their work to new global audiences. 
• Promote intercultural understanding and dialogue through reliable, high-quality, peer-reviewed material on the diversity of and pluralism within Muslim societies and the interaction between Islamic and other religious, cultural, and philosophical traditions as it relates to architecture and urbanism.
• Enable easy access to a wide variety of resources via a custom-built, web-based, mobile-friendly platform optimized to minimize financial, infrastructural, linguistic, and other barriers to access.  

Launched in 2002 after several years of development, ARCHNET is a pioneering digital resource that has proven a reliable authority on the built environment of Muslim societies, past and present. 

ARCHNET is a partnership between the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries (AKDC@MIT) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), with support from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT.  ARCHNET is developed and maintained by Performant Software Solutions.