Nezar AlSayyad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nezar AlSayyad
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Nov 10, 1955(1955-11-10)
Age	69
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Cairo Governorate
Horoscope	Scorpio

Nezar AlSayyad Biography

Nezar AlSayyad is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on November 10, 1955 in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.

Nezar AlSayyad was born in Cairo, Egypt, to a family of educators. His father was a well-known geographer, poet and an intellectual in Egypt. As a child AlSayyad enjoyed reading and learning. His other interest was in building with his hands, creating designs and analyzing architectural and city forms. Having spent a year in Norman, Oklahoma as a child, AlSayyad decided to return and make his life in the US. Following his graduation from high school, AlSayyad joined Cairo University where he excelled as both an undergraduate and graduate student obtaining his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering in 1977 and his Higher Diploma – Town Planning in 1979.

In 1981, AlSayyad finished his M.S. in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He then went on to work for Yamasaki & Associates, architects of the World Trade Center, before accepting his first professorial position at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (UPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. After publishing his first book, AlSayyad was invited by the architectural historian Spiro Kostof to join Berkeley to pursue a PhD in architectural and urban history. AlSayyad worked as a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the same college. By the time of his PhD completion in 1988, AlSayyad had established the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) where he served and still serves as the president and chief editor of the Association’s peer- reviewed journal Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

Nezar AlSayyad Net Worth

Nezar AlSayyad is one of the richest Architect from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nezar AlSayyad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Nezar Al Sayyad (born October 10, 1956) is an architect, city planner, urban designer, urban historian, and professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley in the College of Environmental Design, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Educated as an architect, planner, and urban historian, AlSayyad is principally an urbanist whose specialty is the study of cities, their urban forms and spaces, and their impact on their social and cultural realities. As a scholar, AlSayyad has written and edited several books on colonialism, identity, Islamic architecture, tourism, tradition, urbanism, urban design, urban history, urban informality, and virtuality.

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Nicola Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Nezar AlSayyad celebrates birthday on November 10 of every year.