An architect and architectural historian, and the founding director of Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE; established in 1999). He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his master’s and PhD degrees in the history of architecture at Harvard University. He held post-doctoral research positions at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He also has taught at the University of Jordan, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Distinguished Visiting Professor. He served as a reviewer for a number of cycles of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture since 1989, and is currently a member of the Award’s Steering Committee.
He has published a number of books and articles in both Arabic and English on architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world. His most recent publication is Workplaces: The Transformation of Places of Production (Istanbul and Geneva: 2010), which deals with the evolution of industrial architecture in the Islamic world. His Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East, which is being published by the University Press of Florida, is scheduled to come out next year.
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