1 January 2026
About the Lecture
In his lecture, Prof. Rami Daher grants a voice to modern heritage in Amman and in the Arab World. Focusing on Amman, he will demonstrate how different levels of the understanding of place (physical, discursive, typological, and phenomenological) can inform interventions within historic settings. The lecture will present key projects of adaptive reuse and other forms of interventions within historic settings mostly from Amman, demonstrating indulgence in the understanding of place and exploring the potentials of adaptive reuse of modern heritage in Amman and the Arab World. The lecture will end with a focus on the current world preoccupation with modern heritage and its transformations servicing society and its collective memory.
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Date: January 12, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m. Amman Time (10:00 a.m. EST)
Place: American Center of Research, Amman (click for directions)
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81598249052?pwd=S1Nyad30uMmFvttmjxMnbtwKUMCEkt.1
Webinar ID: 815 9824 9052
Passcode: 180585
YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@ACORJordan1968/streams
About the Speaker
Dr. Rami Daher is a professor at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the German Jordanian University (GJU) and a practicing architect and general director at Turath for Studies and Design. He taught at the American University of Beirut’s Department of Architecture and Design, at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, and at Jordan University of Science and Technology (where he held the position of department head between 2003 and 2006). Daher earned a bachelor of architecture from the University of Jordan (1988), a master of architecture from the University of Minnesota (1991), and a PhD in architecture from Texas A&M (1995), and he was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship through which he did his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2001). At Turath, Daher led several key projects on urban regeneration and public space design, heritage conservation and management, adaptive reuse of heritage sites, development of intervention guidelines for heritage sites and areas, preparation of conservation management plans, nomination of sites to the World Heritage List, urban planning, and others in Amman and in the region.
Prof. Daher is also the recipient of the prestigious Abdelhamid Shouman Arab Researchers Award for its 35th cycle in the category of Engineering Sciences/Conservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings. He is also the recipient of the Arab Architects Award (2018) in the “Rehabilitation” category for the adaptive reuse of Amman’s historic Electricity Company Hangar project. Furthermore, Prof. Daher is the recipient of the Arab Architects Award (2022) in the “Tourism and Entertainment” category for the design of the Shomari Wildlife Reserve Visitor Center.