Dr. Abd Alhalem wins Architectural Excellence Award
Architect Dr. Abd Alhalem Ibrahim, professor of Architecture at Cairo University and chairman of Halem-CDCFoundation, was declared the life-long winner of Architecture Excellence Award.
The outstanding intellectual contributions, for which Eng. Abd Alhalem was picked, took shape when he established Halem-CDC Foundation, which is en entity whose prime purpose is to help build urban and human communities on the basis of thought-out understanding and research intoroots and rituals relevant to cultures, indigenous and inherited traditions, along with deep awareness of modernity prerequisites and needs.
Abd Alhalem's philosophy relies on formulating, developing and creating architectural and structural solutions by means of observing the structural constructs which have indigenous reference to the structural outputs of these communities.
Abd Alhalem Ibrahim, a professor of architecture at Cairo University, got the Master Degree in Architecture from Oregon University and the Philosophy Degree from California's Berkely Unversity, at which he, later on, became a lecturer along withHarford University.
Dr. Abd Alhalim worked also as a visiting professor at Aga Kkan Islamic Architectural Program at Harford University and the U.S. MIT Cambridge.
Additionally, he worked as a lecturer and professor of Architecture at Environmental Design Faculty at California University and as a lecturer at the U.S. Virginia University.
Dr. Abd Alhalem worked also as an associate professor at Applied Architecture and Arts at the U.S. Oregon University and as a visiting professor at Vienna's International Fine Arts Academy togetherwith Cities & Urbanity Management Program.
