1. RASEM BADRAN

2. INTRODUCTION
The renowned Jordanian architect, Rasem Badran is one of the few Arab architects whose passion for architectural national identity led him to successfully develop personal architectural views and concepts that spread throughout the Arab and developing world.

3. Rasem Badran His Name : Born : Country of Origin : Rasem Jamal Badran
1945
Country of Origin :
Jordan

4. His Education
Badran received his early education in Ramallah. In Badran graduated with a degree in Architecture from Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology) in former West Germany.

5. Positions and roles
Member of International Jury for Planning and Urban Development in the Old area of "Bab Al Sheikh" In Baghdad-Iraq (1981).
Member of the Master Jury Committee for the Arab Towns Organization prizes (1985).
Member of the International Jury of the Governor-General's Award for Architecture, Kingston, Jamaica (1992).
Member of the International Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1998).
Member of the International Jury of the ARCASIA Award for Architecture which was held in Dhaka – Bangladesh (2003)
Member of the Dubai Municipality "Dubai International Awards for Best Practices" (2006)
Design advisory board member in Moutamarat – International Design Initiative (2007)
Member of the Greater Amman Municipality (2007)

6. Awards and honors
Al Hussein Medal for Distinguished Performance of the First Order" For his great distinguished efforts in enrichment of modern Islamic architecture
Won the first prize (Elementa 72) in the international competition for the design of limited income housing sponsored by the Ministry of Housing in Bonn, West Germany
Winner of Sidon Seafront development Competition in Lebanon
Winner of the Museum of Islamic Art international competition in Doha-Qatar which was sponsored by Aga Khan - Geneva Office in cooperation with the government of Qatar
Arab Architecture Award received in Morocco at the general conference of the Arab Towns Organization (1990)
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, received for the design of the Grand Mosque of Riyadh and redevelopment of Riyadh Old City Center (1995)
First Arab Architect Award which was announced by the Arab Housing Ministers of the Arab League in Cairo - Egypt (1997)
Honorary PHD in Architectural Design from the Jordan University of Science and Technology for his advancement of Architectural Theory and Practice

7. The Great Mosque of Riyadh

8. Great Mosque in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) - Mosque Imam Turki bin Abdullah - is of business deals in the Renaissance architectural Arabia current, and has architect Rasem Badran study work for this project featured in 1985 was to begin implementation to 1987 and continued until February1992

9. Architect Rasem Badran has recreated and transformed the spatial character of the local “Najdi” architectural idiom without directly copying it .

10. Externally, the complex is a group of buildings behind walls, punctuated by such traditional elements as gates and towers. Within, columns, courtyards and narrow passageways .

11. Husseinieh library in Jordan

12. Analytical study of the stages of urban design for the library

13. Qatar Museum

14. Amman Municipality Building

15. Yarmouk University Library

16. Resurgences http://www.archiciv.com/vb/archiciv507/

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