Ahmed Ouf Email & Phone Number

My name is Ahmed Ouf; I am an Architect and Urban Planner with more than 25 years of experience across USA, Europe, Gulf Area, and MENA Region. I was “Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering” at Cairo University, after twenty years as a tenure-track professor of Urban Design and Architecture at Cairo University since November 1999.I have been teaching architecture, urban design, and urban planning since then at Cairo University for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I also taught full time at the UAE University for three years. I was the Dean of Engineering and head of the department of architecture for three years at the IAET in Egypt.I received my Ph.D. in urban planning from Graduate School of Fine Arts at University of Pennsylvania (now PENN Design) in May 1989. For four years, I received courses at the departments of Urban Design, Urban Planning, Heritage and Architectural Conservation and Architecture at PENN. My first university degree was from the department of architectural engineering at Cairo University; a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering with honors then a Master of Urban Design before I traveled to the US for my Ph.D. study.As my enclosed resume indicates, the first time I practiced architecture was in London in the summer of 1980 at Pascal and Watson Architects as a trainee architect, while I had my first job as an architect in June of 1981 in Cairo. I always had a private business as a consultant architect beside my position as a professor of Urban Design through which I designed educational buildings, hospitals, residential buildings, public places, and other building typologies in addition to landscape design. I also worked as a city planner for large projects and as a master plan manager for mega projects in the MENA region. I have gained international work experience in all types of development projects and supervised work for major architecture practices such as HOK, WATG, and others.

Listed skills include Urban Design, Sustainable Design, Architectural Design, Comprehensive Planning, and 13 others.