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Lonaard Magazine is a specialised peer-reviewed art and architecture periodical founded
in London by Dr Waleed Al Sayed and Dr Mashary Al Naim since 2008
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Mohammad Al-Asad is an architect and architectural historian. He is the founder of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) in Amman (www.csbe.org), and served as its director from 1999 until 2006. He currently is CSBE’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and senior advisor. Al-Asad studied architecture (B.Sc. and M. Arch.) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and history of architecture (M.A. and Ph.D.) at Harvard University. He held post-doctoral research positions at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He taught at the University of Jordan (assistant professor), Princeton University (visiting lecturer), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (visiting lecturer; visiting associate professor), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Distinguished Visiting Professor), and also was an adjunct professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has published extensively in both Arabic and English on subjects including the architecture of the Islamic world during both the modern and pre-modern periods, teaching architectural design, and using computer-aided design technologies for reconstructing historical monuments. He also has contributed since 2004 a regular article on architecture and urbanism to Jordan’s English daily, The Jordan Times. Al-Asad has been a member of a number of boards and committees for organizations including the Royal Society of Fine Arts – The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, the Jordan National Museum, the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, the Urban Workshop (Amman), and the Amman Commission. In addition, he was the academic advisor for the Museum With No Frontiers Discover Islamic Arts project, a European Union-funded initiative that developed a virtual web-based museum of Islamic art in the Mediterranean through the participation of over 30 museums in 14 countries from Europe and the southern Mediterranean. He also served as a reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture between 1989 and 2007, and has been a member of the Award’s 2010 Steering Committee. |
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