ABEER HUSSAM EDDIN AL-LAHHAM Associate Professor (BA, MSC. ARCH., PHD ARCH.) CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Nationality Jordanian Birth Amman, Jordan Language Arabic, English Address: P.O.Box 30894 Al-Khobar 31952 Saudi Arabia E-mail: dr.allahham@hotmail.com EDUCATION DEGREE INSTITUTION SUBJECT Ph.D. Oxford Brookes University, UK Architecture MSc. Arch. University of Jordan Urban Design (ranked first) B. Arch. University of Jordan Architecture (ranked first) HONORS AND AWARDS King Hussien Award for Distinguished Students Ranked third best in Final Exam of Secondary Schools (tawjihi) among 9953 students, Amman, Jordan. Platinum Award. Creativity International Award 41.Print Division. Book: The Project of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abudlaziz for the Expansion of the Holy Mosque. 1
Gold Award. Creativity International Award 43. Print Division. Book: The project of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abudlaziz for Traffic, Transportation, Crowd Movement, and Routes Leading to the Central Area of Mecca. EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008-present Member of the "Scientific Team" of the Third Expansion project of the Holy Mosque in Mekka, and of the Makka and Mashi r Transportation Project, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia. 2008- present Associate Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. 2000-2008 Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. 1994 Practicing architect in Shubeilat-Badran ass., Amman-Jordan. Working as a Project Manager for several projects, locally and internationally ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 2002-2006 Head of the Academic Committee (Registrar) of the Department of Interior Design (Girls), King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate: Teaching several courses in the undergraduate program of Interior Design, such as: Interior Design I, II, III, IV, VII, VIII Senior Project Research Theory of Design II History of Architecture and Art II, III Research Methods Graduate Program: 2
Teaching several courses in the field of "Theory, History, and Criticism", some of which are: Special issues in Housing Methods in Architectural Criticism Research Methods Special topics in history, theory and criticism Contemporary issues Conservation Socio-cultural aspects of the built environment Housing and intervention Supervision of Master s thesis: Shared supervision of seven Masters dissertations in the area of "History, theory and criticism" from the Department of Architecture, King Faisal University. PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2012 Housing Communities: between Islamic freedom and capitalist kaleidoscope. Journal of King Saud University for Architecture and Planning. Vol.24:2. pp. 99-117. 2011 Housing Communities: between Islamic freedom and capitalist kaleidoscope. Journal of King Saud University for Architecture and Planning. Vol.23:1. pp. 1-31 (in Arabic). 2010 Sina at al-umran al-islami Al-Mu aser (Industralization of contemporary Islamic Architecture). Proceedings of the First International Conference for Architectural Heritage in the Islamic world, organized by the Higher Commission for Tourism, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 23-28 May, 2010. (in Arabic). 2008 Residential Communities: between the freedom of Islam and the tunnel of capitalism. Proceedings of the First Conference of housing organized by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Program for housing, in collaboration with UN Habitat. Abu Dhabi, 13-15 October (in Arabic). 3
2008 Contemporary Urban Planning: Democratic Planning or Planned Democracy. Journal of King Saud University for Architecture and Planning. Vol.20:2. pp. 275-292 (in Arabic) 2007 The neighbourhood: a place for community or a community of a place. A paper published by the third housing conference, Riyadh, May, 2007. (in Arabic) 2006 Freedom and Rights in The Contemporary Built Environment: A Comparative Study Between Two Modes. Journal of King Saud University for Architecture and Planning. Vol.18, pp.295-331. (in Arabic) 2004 Orientalism in the readings of Arab Muslim cities Journal of King Saud University. Vol.16, pp.95-174. (in Arabic) CONFERENCES PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES 2008 Rights of Pwer vs. Power of Rights: synthesis of Muslim built environments A paper presented in the International Forum on Islamic Architecture and Design (IFAID 2008), Sharja University. 8-10 April, 2008. 2007 Language and the synthesis of the built environmnet A paper presented in the second international assembly of The Authenticity of the Arabic and Islamic Cities organized by Faculty of Architecture at Damscus University in cooperation with University of Badji Mukhtar of Annaba, Algeria, between 22-24 October, 2007 in Damascus (in Arabic). 2003 Democracy in the built environment: between decentralization & centralization. A paper presented in a conference held in Irbid, Jordan titled (Al-Ijtihad in issues of health, environment, and the built environment), organized by the Yarmouk University, 3-5 May 2003. (in Arabic) PRESENTATIONS 2012 Discursive Roots of the Readings of Muslim Cities. A paper presented in the Second International Congress of Urban History Writers, organized by the Municipality of Koya, Turkey. 5-7 October, 2012 (keynote speaker). 4
2010 Sina at al-umran (Industrialization of the built environment). A seminar delivered in the colloquium of Hiwar fi ta sil al-umran (Dialogue in the authentization of built environment) organized by the Jordanian Engineering Association, Amman, in 21 September 2010. (main speaker, in Arabic) 2009 Language of Culture vs. Culture of Language A paper presented in the International Symposium of The City and Civilization organized by the Municipulity of Corum, Turkey, 12-14 October, 2009. 2006 Univeriety as an Organization: Power and the Organization structure. A peper presented in a conference tiltled Management of female sections in Saudi Universities: Challenges and hopes. King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 6-8 March, 2006. (in Arabic) 2001 Orientalism in the Readings of Islamic Arabic Cities. A paper presented in a colloquium held in Kuwait titled (Dialogue between architecture and civilizations) organized by the School of Architecture, Kuwait University, 3-7 November 2001. (in Arabic) ACADEMIC OR PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION 2010- present Coordinator of the Scientific Team of the Makka and Mashi r Transportation Project, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia. (edinting of 7 books and following up the books' page design and printing). 2008-present Coordinator of the Scientific Team of the Project of the Castudian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, for the Expansion of the Holy Mosque, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia (edinting of 19 books as well as 7 books of the transportation project in Mekka, and following up the books' page design and printing). 2008 Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Forum of Islamic Architecture and Design. Organized by University of Sharja, 8-10 April, 2008. (reviewer of 6 papers) 2008 Member of the Scientific Committee of a conference titled Instant cities organized by CSAAR and the American University of Sharja, 103 April, 2008. (reviewer of 5 papers) 2007 Member of the Scientific Committee of the third Housing Symposium titled "Neighborhoods are more than houses", 5
organized by the Higher Commission for the Development of Arriyadh. 20-23 May, 2007. 2006 External Juror for fifth year Houing Project, Department of Architecture, Bahrain University. 1997 External juror for the final project in the diploma course, Joint Center of Urban design, Oxford Brookes University. 6