Authorization certificate for Tayara to work as an architect from Texas, America | from Raghad Qablawi and Dania AlAgha, “Muqābala maʿ Prof. Eng. Bourhan Tayara [Interview with Prof. Eng. Bourhan Tayara,” Twenty-Two 22 Architectural Magazine, March 2015. Tayara’s (Arab Planners, Architects, and Engineers) firm card | courtesy of Architect Mamoun Alwareh Bourhan Tayara (1935-2018) Bourhan …
Graduation project jury at the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University in 1971, with (from right to left) Dr. Hola (Dean of Faculty of Engineering then) and architects Abd al-Rauf al-Kasm, Nizar al-Farra, Nawfal Kisrawi, Jean-Noel Conan, Youssef Abu Hadid, and Guy Rottier. | courtesy of Architect Mamoun AlWareh From the Architect’s firm in Damascus …
young Paul Chiniara | from “Akhbār al-Muhandisīn wa-l-Naqābāt (News of Engineers and Syndicates)”, The Arab Engineer, September 1965. Paul Chiniarah (b.1942) Paul Chiniarah was born in 1942. He studied at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University and graduated in 1965 as one of its first batch of graduates.01 …
Young Abd al-Rauf al-Kasm | from “Akhbār Mūjaza (Brief News),” The Arab Engineer, October 1963. Abd al-Rauf al-Kasm (b. 1932) Abd al-Rauf al-Kasm was born in 1932. He acquired his bachelor’s degree from the Philosophy department of the Faculty of Humanities at Damascus University in 1953, and after that, he studied engineering at İstanbul University. …
al-Moudarres interviewing Architect Khalil Al-Farra as editor-in-chief of The Arab Engineer Magazine, 1978 | MHD Samir Al-Moudarres, “Shakhsiyyat al-ʿadad al-Handasiyya al-Muhandis al-Istishariyy Khalil al-Farra [the Issue’s Engineer Persona the Consultant Engineer Khalil al-Farra],” The Arab Engineer, May 1978. MHD Samir al-Moudarres (b. 1931) MHD Samir al-Moudarres was born in Aleppo in 1931. He received a …
AlWareh during his graduation thesis review in 1971 with the jury consisting of (from left to right) Talak Akili, Khaled Hallaj, Mahmoud Warde, Youssef Abu Hadid, Nizar al-Farra, Nawfal Kisrawi, Raymond Ghosn, Abd al-Rauf al-Kasm, and Bourhan Tayara. | courtesy of the architect AlWareh in front of the Faculty of Architecture at Damascus University in …
Abu Hadid (second from the right) with French-Greek Architect Goerges Candilis (third from the right) and Architect Abd al-Raheem Shaqfe | from “Abd Alraheem Shekfeh” on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=449297465200279&set=a.398155476981145 Youssef Abu Hadid (1943-2003) Youssef -Joseph- Abu Hadid was born in Damascus in 1943 and died in 2003. He graduated from Damascus University’s Faculty of Fine Arts …
Inauguration ceremony of the new electrical appliances in Ain al-Fijah, featuring the then Director of the Damascus Electricity Corporation, Munib al-Dardari, on the far left. 1957 | from Ajdad Al Arab website, https://ajdadalarab.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/الرئيس-صبري-العسيلي-1957/ Munib al-Dardari (1912-1995) Munib al-Dardari was born in Damascus in 1912 and died in 1995. He obtained his high school certificate from …
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 …
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 …
