Rasem Badran

Education

Positions and roles

• Badran is a permanent member in the Academic Council for the international Academy of Architecture in Sophia
• Member of the Greater Amman Municipality
• Co-Founder of Dar Al Omran planning Architecture engineering company
• Design advisory board member in Moutamarat – International Design Initiative
• Member of the Dubai Municipality "Dubai International Awards for Best Practices"
• Member of the International Jury of the ARCASIA Award for Architecture which was held in Dhaka – Bangladesh
• Member of the International Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
• Member of the International Jury of the Governor-General's award for architecture, Kingston, Jamaica
• Member of the Master Jury committee for the Arab Towns Organization prizes
• Member of International Jury for planning and urban development in the old area of "Bab-Al Sheikh" in Baghdad - Iraq

  Awards and honours

• Honorary PHD in Architectural Design from the Jordan University of Science and Technology for his advancement of Architectural Theory and Practice
• Palestine Award for Architecture
• First Arab Architect Award which was announced by the Arab Housing Ministers of the Arab League in Cairo - Egypt
• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, received for the design of the Grand Mosque of Riyadh and redevelopment of Riyadh Old City Center
• Arab Architecture Award received in Morocco at the general conference of the Arab Towns Organization
• Winner of the Museum of Islamic Art international competition in Doha-Qatar which was sponsored by Aga Khan - Geneva Office in cooperation with the government of Qatar
• Winner of Sidon Seafront development Competition in Lebanon
• Won the first prize in the international competition for the design of limited income housing sponsored by the Ministry of Housing in Bonn, West Germany
• "Al Hussein Medal for Distinguished Performance of the First Order" For his great distinguished efforts in enrichment of modern Islamic architecture

  Publications

• "The Architecture of Rasem Badran: Narratives on People and Place", James Steele, Thames & Hudson,, 2005