Adil Mustafa Ahmad was born in 1946 in Sudan. He gained a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University Khartoum in Sudan in 1969, where he also worked as a teaching assistant from 1969 to 1970. From September 1970 he is recorded as a student on the postgraduate programme run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London, where he was tutored by Michael Safier. Following graduation from the AA in 1971, Ahmad remained in the UK, studying for a PhD at University College London, which he duly received in 1975. During this period Ahmad also produced a paper for the Building Research Station in Garston, Watford, examining the thermal performance of concrete roofs and reed shading panels in hot, arid climates. In 1975, Ahmad returned to Sudan and served as a lecturer (1975-81), Associate Professor (1981-1985) and then Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Khartoum. The latter position he held until 1987 when he
became the co-founder and director of the Sudanese Group for the Assessment of Human Settlements (1987-1989). A move to the US followed and Ahmad was a visiting scholar on the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and from 1996 was the regional coordinator for the Arab African Countries for Affordable Housing working group at the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies in the University of Florida. In more recent years he has been a professor at the College of Architecture and Art at the University of Petra in Amman, Jordan (1998-2000), becoming Dean there from c2000. Alongside his teaching, Ahmad has made a major contribution to building science and the study of human settlement, publishing extensively upon these subjects.
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