Nazih Kawakibi
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Nazih Kawakibi (1 April 1946 – 7 March 2009) was a Syrian architect and a historian of architecture. Kawakibi was a professor at Damascus University, faculty of architecture.[1] He taught a variety of subjects including; descriptive geometry, shadows in perspective, the history of early Christianity and Islamic architecture, lighting and acoustics.
Positions and rules
He was a member of the friends of the old city of Damascus; a watchdog group on the conservation work in the old city.[2] He was known to be an activist,[3] whose love of his city guided his actions in communities and historic conservation in Damascus and in general.[4][5]
He had collected a significant archive on the material culture of the old city of Damascus and other towns and cities in Syria.