Jamal Hisham Abed
Office: Architecture, Room 201
Phone: 961-1-374374 xt:3660
Fax: 961-1-744462
E-mail: jamal@aub.edu.lb
[photo of Jamal Hisham Abed]
Position/Title
Associate Professor, Chairman of the Department of Architecture & Design, since Feb.2000
Masters of Urban Planning and Masters of Urban Design Program Coordinator, since Feb. 1998
Chairman of the University Academic Development Committee, since Dec.1999
Course Director/Instructor
Course Director:
Professional & Design Courses
  • Design Studio A202, A203, A304, A305, A406
  • Building Construction I A241
  • Principles of Architecture A131
  • Final Project Program and research A535
  • Final Project Design A509
  • Technical Courses
  • Technical Drawing I A112
  • Technical Drawing II A214
  • Surveying A261
Cultural Courses
  • History of Art, Architecture and Cities in the Modern Period AGD224
  • History of Art, Architecture and Cities in the Post-Medieval Period AGD223
  • History of Architecture III A223
  • History of Architecture IV A224
Elective Courses
  • Introduction to Theories and Practice in Modern Architecture
  • An Attempt at Object Design
  • The Architect and the Building Sector
  • Architecture and The Project of Modernity in Third World Countries
  • Urban and City Management (Graduate Course)
Course offered - Spring 2000
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A first year design studio that aims at engaging students in the making of architecture objects and their representations, and to practice design as a research activity
Office Hours (Spring 2000):
T., Th.: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Biography
Born in Beirut, 1958. Married to Salma Abed since 1988
Teaching since 1983 and full-time faculty at AUB since 1988.
Nominations and Awards
  • Nominated one of the best four papers of the year by the Lebanese Scholars Association for the critical paper entitled: "Notes on the Art of Selling Cities: Urban Design Strategies in the new downtown of Beirut." Paper is published in the ACSA conference proceedings on the New City, held in Rome, Italy; May 1999. Fall 99
  • Winner of a Fulbright Research Award. Taking place at Clark University, Worcester Mass., the research work concentrated on GIS Analysis, Remote Sensing and Satellite Image Classification land Use Planning and Growth Management and Control. Fall 96-97
  • Recipient of an MIT research travels' grant from the School of Architecture. The research was conducted in Syria analyzing the operation and traditional trades and crafts. Summer 1987
Research Interests
  • Urban and City Management
  • Methods of reading the urban landscape
  • Quantitative Planning and more specifically the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in the Urban Modeling
 
Selected Papers
"Applying the Fuzzy Logic in Modeling Urbanization, Using Satellite Images and GIS." Paper is published in the conference proceedings on City Planning, Urban Design and Legislation. November 1999

"Modeling Change in Urban Boundaries: A Case Study of Beirut." Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Annual Conference Proceedings. August 1999

"Mapping the Post-War Agriculture-Urbanization Interface in Greater Beirut Using Change Detection of HRV Spot Images and GIS." 1999 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Annual Conference Proceedings. May 1999

"Notes on the Art of Selling Cities: urban design strategy of Downtown Beirut." ACSA Annual Conference Proceedings. May 1999
 
Selected Design Studio Themes
"Recovering Shweifaat" Spring 1999
An urban design studio that studies an intervention in coordination with the municipality of Shweifaat. The objectives of the studio are to 1) expose students to methods of research and analysis at an urban and neighborhood scales, 2) to understand the components of and differences between a Master Plan, a Strategic Development Plan, and Site Planning; 3) to investigate differences and overlaps between architecture and urban design; 4) to learn to work in set morphological and socio-economic environments.
Selected Design Studio Themes
"Blending Spaces" Fall 1997/98
Offered to second year architecture students, the studio bases itself on Cognitive Studies in conceptual integration and formal expression that offer a counter model to the "modern" architectural design approach and that shed light on the way we "think" design (Turner & Fauconnier, 1995; http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mturn/WWW/blending.html. Called the "many-space", the borrowing of this model into the architectural design domain enables the students to be conscious (and hence being able to map) borrowed structures that get to be transformed and integrated within a "mental space."
Current Research Topics
  • Modeling Change of Urbanized Agriculture in Greater Beirut through the Application of Multi-Criteria Evaluation
  • Using GIS to Establish Physical, Locational, and Institutional Indices that Explain Urban Development
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Consultancy Works
  • UNDP - Strategic Options for Urban Management support of UNDP in Lebanon. November 1995 - April 1996
  • USAID / High Relief Funds - Local Government Improvement in Lebanon. November 1994 - January 1995
  • SOLIDERE - Criteria for Affordable Housing  in the Historical Center of Beirut. January 1995 - May 1995
  • Millennium - Urban Design Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria for an International Design Competition in the City of Makkah - SA. August 1999-February 2000

 
 
Last Updated: Mar 1 2000