Abdurrahman Mohammed


: Jul 24, 2019


Looking for Extra EU Funds
About Me

My name is Abdurrahman Mohamed, a hardworking and dynamic professional with 33 years of experience in the profession and 23 years in academia. He worked in several universities in Palestine and United Arab Emirates. He also worked as an urban planning consultant for the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and PAPP program of the United Nations in 1996/97. He worked as a project construction specialist in Dubai Municipality. He became the head of department of Architectural Engineering at the Islamic University of Gaza (1999 – 2001) and the Director of its IWAN Center for Architectural Heritage from (2009- 2010). He was selected in 2011 as an external reviewer by the Ministry of   Research and Innovation, Ontario, ; He has also been added to the register of experts of the Euro-Mediterranean University EMUNI, Portoroz, Slovenia.

He joined University of Bahrain in 2010 where in 2012 he was the initiator and the head of the organizing committee for the First Architectural Heritage Photography Competition in celebration of UNESCO World Heritage Day. In 2013, he became member of the advisory committee and the organization executive for the Eskan Bank Award for Creative Engineering. In 2014, he was the coordinator of the Ministry of Transportation Award for Innovative Transport Systems. He became also a member of the advisory committee of the award and the executive of its organizing committee.

Dr. Mohamed teaches several courses including architectural design studios, graduation project, urban planning, sustainable urban planning, urban design, architectural conservation, landscape architecture and urban sociology. He is one of the first Arab scholars to introduce the concept of phenomenology in architectural education.

He participated in several refereed international conferences and workshops in Palestine, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Portugal, UK and the Netherlands.

His research interests cover several topics including theory and practice of urban planning, sustainable urban design and planning, Islamic cities and management of architectural heritage conservation. He recently completed the drafts of two books on sustainable urban planning and architectural design philosophy. In addition, He has jointly developed GAPRO with Cristina Bronzino, University of Naples, Italy. It is an innovative approach for the management and assessment of architectural heritage ;

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 Renewable Energy
 Education and Training
 Architecture

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