Personnel

Dr. Raed Kamal Musa Qaqish

Position Associate Professor
Faculty School of Architecture and Interior Design
Email raed.qaqish@cud.ac.ae
Telephone/Ext +971(4)7096873
Location C2-10
Name Dr. Raed Kamal Musa Qaqish
Position Associate Professor
Email raed.qaqish@cud.ac.ae
Telephone/Ext +971(4)7096873
Location C2-10
Faculty School of Architecture and Interior Design

Biography

Ra’Ed QaQish is a licensed architect (JEA), designer, and educator who has practiced and taught architecture, interior design, and graphic design at various universities in several countries. He is also a plastic/digital artist who has won numerous awards and participated in a great number of art exhibitions/Biennales internationally.

Dr. QaQish has lectured and acted as a guest critic at many academic institutions in Jordan, the UK, and the US. He has taught architecture design studios/visual communication/CAAD - BIM and extensive, wide-ranging related topics for more than 14 years at distinguished faculties both as Assistant and Associate Professor of Architecture and Design.

Educated in the US and the UK, Dr. QaQish was a Chevening Scholar and a HANSARD Scholar, and Noor Al-Hussein Foundation grant holder.

Dr. QaQish earned a B.Sc. in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (UWM), US in 1984, a MARCH from UWM in 1987 (Scholarship), and a PhD in Architecture /CAAD from Glasgow University (Mackintosh School of Architecture), UK in 1997 (Chevening Scholarship). He completed Post-Doctorate in Media - Communications Management from London School of Economics, UK in 2002 (HANSARD Scholarship) and a Post-Doctorate internship at the Design Council in London, where he researched the impact of Architectural design on the practice of Politics (Portcullis House post occupancy design analysis case study) in 2002. He further undertook a course in Conflict Resolution- Education at Temple University in 2004.

In academia, he was the founding Dean of Architecture and Design faculties at a number of notable universities, namely AAU, AUM, and MEU. Before CUD, he was the founding Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at KUTC. Earlier in his academic career, QaQish was the founding head of the graphic design department at the UOP.

Dr. QaQish is a researcher in the subject of Architecture, BIM and CAAD; he has published a great number of papers on topics related to CAAD, CAL, digital design and architectural education.

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