Tamayouz announces Egyptian architect Dr Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim as 2020 laureate of Lifetime Achievement Award [Sponsored]

Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates the achievements of individuals who have made significant contributions towards humanity and the advancement of architecture and the built environment in the Near East and North Africa. The award also recognises those whose commitments to architecture were and continue to be unparalleled. The award was established in 2014 as part of the Tamayouz Excellence Award programme, which champions and celebrates the best architecture worldwide. For 2020, it has been given to prominent Egyptian architect Dr Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim.   Born in September of 1941, Dr Abdelhalim is a professor of architectural design and theory at Cairo University in Egypt and the principal of Community Design Collaborative Abdelhalim (CDC Abdelhalim), a private architectural planning and development consultancy firm he established in 1978. Dr Abdelhalim received his PhD in architecture from the University of California, Berkley in 1978; a Master’s in architecture from the University of Oregon in 1968; a Graduate Diploma in housing and building technology from Cairo University in 1967, and a Bachelor’s in architecture also from Cairo University in 1963.   Read the full post on Bustler