History of Architectural Education in the Middle East and North Africa

Farhan Karim is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He is the author of Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India and editors of Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement, Flows, Boundaries and the Construction of Muslim Selves since 1900, and Memorial Reproduction of 1971 in Contemporary Bangladesh. He served as President and Vice President of the Society of Urban and Architectural Historians of Asia. He is co-editor of the book series Across Asia at the University of Singapore Press. He received Grants and fellowships from the Canadian Center for Architecture, Aga Khan Foundation at MIT, Dumbarton Oaks at Harvard, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. An ACSA Distinguished Professor, Mohammad Gharipour serves as a Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. He has published 15 books and has received awards and grants from many organizations, including AIA, NEH, NIH, Fullbright, SAH, ARCC, and ACSA. He is the director and founder of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA), the director and co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the president of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Challenging traditional conceptions of historical knowledge, Karim and Gharipour develop a compelling compendium of writings that collectively provide a fresh look on the development of architecture as profession, as education, and as knowledge system. This is an essential inquiry into the history of architectural education in a continuously transforming region.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors IntroductionFarhan Karim and Mohammad GharipourPart I. New Historical Consciousness1. ‘La Formation de l’architecte’: American Interventionism, Interdisciplinarity, and Development in Postcolonial Tunisian Architectural CurriculaNancy Demerdash2. Jordan is Palestine? Rewriting History through Pedagogy and SpaceEliana Abu-Hamdi3. Homemade Architects: Architectural Education in Mandatory Palestine, 1924–1948Sigal DavidiPart II. Resolving Modernity 4. In Search of Modern Egypt: Two Centuries of Architectural Education Predicament with Foreign Influences at Cairo UniversityMohamed Gamal Abdelmonem5. The Dynamics of Architectural Education in 1960s IranAli Mozaffari and Ali Javid6. The First Iraq Architecture School between Nationalism, Modernity and Identity: Makiya’s Approach and LegacyUla A. A. MeriePart III. Knowledge Exchanges7. Inventing a ‘Lebanese’ Architectural Tradition: Friedrich Ragette and the American University of BeirutYasmina El Chami8. Student in Hungary, Professor in Turkey: Correspondence between Architectural Education and the Instructorship of Semih RüstemMüjde Dila Gümüş and Gergő Máté Kovács9. Death of the Architect and the Rise of Community Planning In and Out of the Middle East, 1950-1978Burak ErdimIndex