Graduate Student, Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design & Planning
Researcher, Doctorate Candidate
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Thesis Title: ... Design Process, Creativity & Human Cognition ...
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Prof. Alan Penn
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About
Tamer is a doctoral candidate at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London. He has a MSc in Architecture Theory from Ain Shams University-Egypt (2005), and a BSc in Architecture Engineering, Ain Shams University-Egypt (2000).
He joined the PhD Programme at the BSGS 2007. His current research focuses on the architectural design process, creativity and human cognition, investigating the role of reflective practice on the formation of novel concepts in design with the aim to reveal the relation between the mental process and drawings as multiple cognitive structures, and to find if creativity is governed by rules or not, and if these rules are fixed or change by time.
This research adopts quantitative analysis (such as entropy, complexity as key measures applied to linkography), in addition to syntactical analysis and qualitative approaches to assess design creativity.
Tamer is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture Engineering, Ain Shams University, started at (2000) until present. He is a senior architect in UK works collaboratively and free-lance at some projects. He is a fully registered architect in the Board of Egyptian Architects and the Syndicate of Engineers (Egypt). He supervised the construction work of "Her Majesty Westminster High Courts" with Clifford Tee and Gale, London (2008-09). He also worked with different practices in several projects in UK, France, and the Middle East.
He received honorary awards; from the Minister of Cultural Affairs for winning the second prize in the International Visionary Young Architects competition based on the theme of IT-architecture [refereed by Marcos Novak (USA), Andrew Gollifer (UK) and Tarek Naga (USA), (2001-2002)]. He received the first and second prizes in the National Housing Prototypes competition for the middle and low classes in Egypt by the Minister of Housing (2006). He applied remote collaborative design set between the Bartlett Graduate School (UK) and Georgia Tech (USA) in the 'Building for Bouwkunde' Ideas Competition, Design of Faculty of Architecture Campus, University of Delft, TU Delft, Netherlands, (2008).
His MSc research is: ‘The Image's Significances in Contemporary Mosque Architecture’. The study adopts semiological analysis (Semiotics) to investigate the questions:
How do users perceive certain physical elements in architectural prototypes? And to what extent does the spatial organisation affect users' perception and interpretation?
Ever since his research interest tends to focus on bridging novel trends and techniques with design research.
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