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A group of second-year students at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University on the faculty’s roof (with Kassab standing fourth from the right), 1964 | from “Charles Kassab” on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2388760801367882&set=a.1455020924741879 Atelier De Damas logo | from “Huda Alassil” on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7622555364449861&set=a.573227276049407 Architect Charles Kassab | from “Charles Kassab” on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1783569481887020&set=a.1457646847812620 Charles …

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The architect in Villa Shoura | Hala AlTarazi, “Namudhaj li-Villa Sakaniyya fi Bidaiyyat al-Niṣf al-Thāniyy min al-Qarn al-ʿIshrīn (Villa Shoura)   (A Residential Villa Model at the Beginning of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Villa Shoura))” (MArch thesis, Damascus University and Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2009).] Nazir Shoura (1906-1986) Nazir Shoura …

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“Kodmani with “”Unité d’Habitation”” building in Marseille, France, 1950 | courtesy of the architect’s family” Kodmanis’s architecture certificate from École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, 1949 | courtesy of the architect’s family Abdul Mohsen Kodmani (1919-2011) Abdul Mohsen Kodmani was born in Damascus in 1919 and died in 2011. Kodmani first attended the Lebanese Academy of …

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Architect Bashir Muhandis | Silsilit Aʿmāl al-Miʿmāriyyīn bi Ḥalab: Aʿmāl al-Muhandis al-Miʿmār Bashir Muhandis (Architect’s Work in Aleppo Series: The Work of Architectural Engineer Bashir Muhandis). Vol. 2 (Syrian Engineers Syndicate – Aleppo branch, 1998). al-Ghurfa al-Thāniyya (The Second Room) painting by Bashir Muhandis, oil on wood (45×55 cm), 1962 (at the Museum of Aleppo-modern …

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Wahbi AlHariri-Rifai in the 1940s | The Georgetown Design Group, Inc. (www.gdgcorp.com) Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai at Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo, Egypt in 1990 | from “Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai” Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/share/7yQijDerDdsAsqC6/. Wahbi Al-Hariri in front of Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, 1991 | from “Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai” Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/share/He4C3Hsx559c3FEK/ Wahbi AlHariri-Rifai (1914-1994) Wahbi AlHariri-AlRifai was born …

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Memorial photo from the graduation ceremony in the courtyard of the French School in Beirut in 1936 |  Khalil Al-Farra, Sabʿūna ʿĀman fiyy al-ʿAmal al-Handasiyy [Seventy years of Engineering work], 2007. Luncheon at Al Qanatir Al Khayriyyah by the invitation of the Minister of Public Works, Eng. Shamsi Pasha, on the occasion of the second …

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Architect Ahmed Adnan Ikhlasi | Silsilit Aʿmāl al-Miʿmāriyyīn bi Ḥalab: Aʿmāl al-Muhandis al-Miʿmār Ahmed Adnan Ikhlasi (Architect’s Work in Aleppo Series: The Work of Architectural Engineer Ahmed Adnan Ikhlasi). Vol. 4 (Syrian Engineers Syndicate – Aleppo branch, n.d.) An oil painting by Architect Ahmed Adnan Ikhlasi | Silsilit Aʿmāl al-Miʿmāriyyīn bi Ḥalab: Aʿmāl al-Muhandis al-Miʿmār …

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