Ja'afar Tuqan
Sheikha Salama Mosque in Emirate of Abu Dhabi by Ja'afar Tuqan

Ja'afar Tuqan (Arabic: جعفر طوقان) (also spelled Jafar Tukan; (19 January 1938 – 25 November 2014) was a Palestinian-Jordanian architect.

Early life

Ja'afar Tuqan was born in 1938 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. He was the son of the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, writer of the poem Mawtini, the current national anthem of Iraq. He was also the nephew of both the Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Toukan and the Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan and thus a member of the Tuqan family.

Tuqan graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1960.

He worked upon graduating from AUB at the Jordanian Ministry of Public Works as a design architect, and then joined the firm Dar al-Handasah Consulting Engineers at their head offices in Beirut. In 1968, he established a private practice in Beirut, and in 1973, formed the partnership Rais and Tukan Architects, which later became Jafar Tukan and Partners Architects and Engineers, and was relocated to Amman, Jordan following the Lebanese Civil war during the mid-1970s. In 2003, Jafar Tukan and Partners Architects and Engineers merged with the Jordanian firm Consolidated Consultants for Engineering and the Environment.[1]

Career

Tuquan designed the Municipality of Amman in Ras al Ayn in association with Rasem Badran,[2] and he belonged to several committees including that of the National Gallery. Ja'afar Tuqan also designed the Royal Automobile Museum, The Jordan Museum, the Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah,[3] the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, [4] the Central Bank of Jordan building and the Jordan Gate Towers. He was the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his 1991 design of a Children's Village - Aqaba, Jordan.[5]

Tuqan served on the Board of Trustees of the Palestinian Art Court – Al Hoash.[6]

Death

Tuquan died on November 25, 2014, in Amman, Jordan.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Archnet".
  2. ↑ "Archnet".
  3. ↑ "Yasser Arafat Museum: Design of the Museum". Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  4. ↑ "Mahmoud Darwish Memorial Museum". Herskhazeen. Archived from the original on 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  5. ↑ SOS Children's Village Aqaba, Jordan Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Board of Trustees Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "Jafar Tukan". Archnet. Retrieved April 3, 2017.


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