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Introduction
Writing a new edition of the book titled: Crises in the built Environment
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June 2017 - present
Position
- Professor (Full)
Description
- Jamel Akbar is proud of a statement from his mentor in a letter of recommendation where J. Habraken (the Department of Architecture chairman for 14 years) said: “I do not believe in all my years of teaching to have met another student who matched the combination of research skills and ability for theoretical constructs that he brought with him to MIT.” His latest Arabic book (Qas ul-Haq) concentrated on economic principles by comparing rights in different cultures.
June 1984 - June 2015
Position
- Professor
Description
- Taught several courses in design, urban design, housing, Islamic Architecture, Law and the environment, ... mostly for Graduate students at the Master level.
Education
September 1978 - June 1984
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Publications (30)
This is the first edition. The second is already available. In the traditional Muslim settlement, owners and users enjoyed maximum responsibility over the built environment which led to maximising the best use of available space and resources. The environment was shaped through mutual agreement and time-tested conventions, with minimal intervention...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1984. Supervised by N. John Habraken. Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-466).
The objective of this report is to explore the application of the support concept in the Saudi Arabian context, as a result of the author's interest in the concept of user participation. To do so, the following steps were followed. First; an analysis and observations were made for both traditional and contemporary houses. Second, twenty-four patter...
This paper explores how epistemological frameworks—particularly those of Popper, Kuhn, and Lakatos—can inform the creation of sustainable, user-responsive built environments, without asserting the superiority of Shari‘a-based rights. It proposes a methodological approach grounded in Ḥuqūq (rights) as a Lakatosian “hard core,” arguing that urban res...
Various factors can affect an individual’s satisfaction level. While studying residential satisfaction and assessing it, subjective perceptions have the most significant influence. An essential element in ensuring satisfaction in housing is to consider the design of spaces that cater to individuals’ specific desires and needs that change over time....
Is it not time to search for paradigms beyond capitalism and socialism?
The book argues that interactions between the claims of “ownership”, “control” and “use”
can elucidate crisis in our environments through measuring responsibilities. Levels of
responsibility created by properties’ and individuals’ rights developed by societal systems,
shape our...
Four arguments will be explored: 1) The current capitalist economic and political models will never result in sustainable environments. The Western mode of property rights leads to rules and regulations, which results in intervention, bureaucracy, monopoly, and stratification, while the Islamic legal system achieves the opposite through rights or Ḥ...
This is an expanded Arabic version of the book titled: Crisis in The Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City.
هذه طبعة جديدة منقحة وملونة من كتاب "عمارة الأرض في الإسلام". ونظرا لأن مواقع التواصل العلمي تحدد المؤلف برفع ملفات أقل حجما، فإن المنشور في هذا الموقع هو 230 ميجا. وللحصول على جودة أعلى في حالة الرغبة في نشر الكتاب طباعة يرجى الاتصا...
Are there Islamic built environments? Through the attempt to answer the question, the paper by concentrating on the law argues that it would be impossible for Western paradigms of civilization to lead to a sustainable environment. The reason is monopolizations. On the other hand, the legal system of rights in Islam has the potential for prosperity...
Links of two presentations that were gevin in Milano Italy. the first one is about patterns of responsibility and quality of the built environments.
The socond is about access to resources and sustainabilty.
