Ali Rahim is an architect living in the United States. He is a full professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign), and the founding director of the firm Contemporary Architecture Practice in New York City.
Education
Rahim graduated from the Rugby School in Great Britain, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York, where he was awarded the Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the Kinney Travelling Fellowship for his work.“Design Award Winners: Emergent Cities, Master of Architecture Thesis Project.” Newsline. Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York, New York. Summer 1996.“Emergent Cities, Master of Architecture Thesis Project.” Abstract. Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York, New York 1996.
Academic career At the University of Pennsylvania, he coordinates the final year curriculum of the design studios for the Master of Architecture program at PennDesign.http://www.design.upenn.edu/people/rahim_ali?destination=people%3Fpage%3D2%26filter1%3D19 accessed 13 November 2012. He has also taught as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, as Zaha Hadid visiting studio professor at the University of Applied Arts (Die Angewandte Kunst) in Vienna, Austria, as visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and as visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Works
His work has used design research as a method to develop new techniques for architectural creation that leverage digital resources in design and production.Chris Bosse. “The Tall Building in Dubai.” A+U. Japan. June 2007.Antoine Picon “Digital Culture in Architecture.” Birkhauser, Basil, April 2010.Anton Picon. "What has Happened to Territory." Architectural Design: Territory. London: Wiley, May/ June 2005.David Celento. “Innovate or Perish”. Harvard Design Magazine. Cambridge. MA. Spring/Summer 2007.
His work at Contemporary Architecture Practice has spanned from product design,“A flock of lights: To create sculptural statements, Ivalo Lighting turns to the masters of form-giving: Architects.” Metropolis. New York, June 2005 to master planning.John Kaliski. "The Main Idea: A Competition for Remaking Main Street," Cite No.45, The Main Idea. Rice Design Alliance/ Rice University Press, Houston, TX, September 1999.
His work has been exhibited at the MOMA in New YorkNicolai Oroussof. “Instant Houses, Then and Now.” New York Times, July 18, 2008. and the Serpentine Gallery in London. It has been published in Architectural Design,“Interiorities". Exuberance, Marjan Colletti Ed. Architectural Design, Academy Editions/John Wiley and Sons Inc., April 2010. Architectural Record,Naomi Pollock. “Record Interiors 2010. IWI Orthodontics, Tokyo.” Architectural Record. September 2010.Rita Catinella.“Translucent solid surfacing material comes to light”. Product of the Month. Architectural Record, McGraw-Hill. New York. June 2007.Mark C. Taylor. “Design Vanguard 2004”. Architectural Record, McGraw-Hill. New York. December 2004. The New York Times,Stephen Treffinger. “What the New Kids on the Block are up to.” New York Times, March 31st 2005. Harvard Design Magazine,Preston Scott Cohen.“Changing Architecture at the Core”, Harvard Design Magazine. Cambridge, MA. Summer 2012.“Contemporary Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed,” Robert Levitt, Harvard Design magazine. Spring 2008.“Contemporary Architecture Practice”. Harvard Design Magazine. Cambridge. MA. April 2007 and the Nikkei newspaper.“Focus: Ali Rahim.” Nikkei Newspaper. Tokyo, Japan. March 16, 2010
References
External links
CAP website: https://www.c-a-p.net PennDesign Biography: https://web.archive.org/web/20100726002047/http://www.design.upenn.edu/people/rahim_ali?destination=people%3Fpage%3D2%2526filter1%3D19 Interview with Ali Rahim: https://web.archive.org/web/20140527213620/http://www.whatisarchitecture.cc/2014/05/ali-rahim.html