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Name: Hasan-Uddin Khan Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation Full Time Courses Taught: Arch 515 Graduate Architecture Design Studio Arch 541 & Arch 613 Graduate Research Seminar & Thesis Studio Arch 530 Special Topics: Contemporary Architecture in Asia and Africa HP 351 History and Philosophy of Historic Preservation HP 631 & HP 651 Graduate Thesis Research Seminar & Graduate Thesis Educational Credentials: Diploma, Architectural Association, London 1972 Teaching Experience: Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation RWU 1999- Visiting Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley Spring 1999, 2007 Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture, MIT 1994–99 Professional Experience: Advisory Committee and Board of Directors, University of the Middle East 2003 – Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Director of Special Projects and Outreach 1991–94 Getty Grant Program Advisory Committee, Rome Prize, Int’l Competition Juries 1988 – Head of Architectural Activities at the Secretariat of His Highness the Aga Khan, France 1984–91 Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Mimar: Architecture in Development 1981–92 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Convener, 1977-80, Steering Committee, Paris 1981–89 Unit 4, Principal in private practice in Karachi, Pakistan, and occasional practice 1974-76, 2007– Payette Associates and Gerald Shenstone and Partners, London, UK 1972–74 Licenses/Registration: Pakistan, UK Selected Publications and Recent Research: Books: Author (and/or editor) of nine books, including – Habib Fida Ali: Architect of Pakistan, Karachi, 2011 The Middle East, Architecture 1900-2000. Vienna and New York 2001 International Style: Modern Architecture 1925-1965, Cologne 1998 The Mosque and the Modern World, co-author, London and New York 1997 Articles: over 60 published 1972 Current Research: Globalization and Urbanism in Asia, 20th C. Architecture and Historic Preservation in Asia and Africa, Architecture of the Mosque Academic Editor, Journal if Islamic Architecture, UK 2011- Co-Editor (Islam section), Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture 2009- Fulbright-Hays Grant in Egypt (Principal Investigator) 2010–12 Association of Collegiate Schools of Arch (ACSA): citation service recognition 2001 Graham Foundation Grant – “The Architecture-Landscape Pact” 1997 Professional Memberships: Architects Institute of Pakistan (AIP) Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) Institutional and Public Service: SAAHP HP & Architecture Co-coordinator 2008–10 Roger Williams University Faculty Senate, Senator, Curriculum Committee 2004- Participant in a Unitarian- Interfaith dialogue group 2001-06 Member, Thesis Committee, Boston Architectural College 2000- .

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