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Eng. Rashad Boukhash
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Pr Besim Hakim
Besim S. Hakim, FAICP, AIA, is a consultant in urban design and an independent scholar. He is Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Member of the American Institute of Architects, and a Harvard graduate in Urban Design. He has been researching and writing about traditional urban management and related codes from the Mediterranean region since 1975. He has articulated how those management procedures and codes shaped the traditional built environment. The purpose is to provide lessons and models for contemporary and future architects, urban designers, city administrators and officials, and lawyers, who are involved in formulating or revising codes and related implementation strategies. He has practiced architecture and urban design and also taught those disciplines for over two decades, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Dr Djamel Boussaa
Dr Djamel Boussaa is at present an assistant Professor at the university of Qatar. He worked at both universities of United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as a lecturer. He is originally from Algeria where he worked also as a teacher of architecture and a director of students affair at the department of Architecture, University of Blida.
He is interested in architectural and urban preservation in the Islamic world and has published several papers in this field.
Dr Hassan Radouane
(Moroccco-U.A.Emirates)
Dr Abeer Allaham
(Jordan-Saudi)
Dr Zeynep Aygen
Dr Zeynep Aygen is Turkish architect who graduated from Architect Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Technical University of Istanbul. At prresent she is Principle Lecturer at the School of Environmental Design and Management. Her Present position is Course Leader for MSc in Historic Building Conservation and MSc in Heritage and Museum Studies. University of Portsmouth, Portland Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH
Email: zeynep.aygen@port.ac.uk
Dr Saleh Al-Hathloul
Dr. Saleh Al- Hathloul is a Saudi Arabian educator and a critic in the field of Architecture and Urbanism with interests in the epistemology of knowledge, the general issues of structural changes in society, and futurist studies; has B.Arch from King Saud University 1972, an MAUD from Harvard University, 1975 and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Environmental Studies from MIT, 1981. He was chairman of the Department of Architecture at King Saud University, Riyadh between 1981and 1984; chairman of the board of Al-UMRAN ( Saudi Society for Architects and Planners) since its inception in 1989 till 1993.
Dr Jamel Akbar
(Saudi)
The Evolution of the Identity of Islamic Architecture after Prophet Muhammad
Dr. Spahic Omer
Introduction
In this paper, I shall deal with some of the themes relating to the gradual evolution of the conspicuous identity of Islamic architecture from the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) till approximately the end of the first period of the Abbasid state (861 AC/247 H). It was during this period that Islamic architecture really matured. It reached its pinnacle in both technical and conceptual terms. It finally attained such qualities as artistic comprehensive excellence, universality, internationalism and profundity of styles and meanings that oozed unparalleled genius, innovation and creativity. The end of the first period of the Abbasid state has been pinpointed as the final phase in the evolution of the total identity of Islamic architecture as we know it today for several reasons. The following two reasons perhaps are most significant.