The influence of the award-winning Jordanian architect Rasem Badran is  rapidly spreading throughout the developing world. His work involves the full  spectrum of the built environment, from urban planning to individual  residences. The architecture of Rasem Badran is human-scaled - one that  responds to its environment and meets the social and cultural requirements of  the people who use it. 

For the first time, this book provides an overview of the work of one who could  be seen as the natural successor to the seminal Egyptian architect Hassan  Fathy. Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Badran lived in Ramallah, Damascus and  Tripoli, and graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His  education, which began with the influence of his father, an Islamic craftsman of  exceptional skill and talent, and continued through a fertile and exciting time  of experimental architecture in Europe, has allowed him to combine a  systematically rational, Western methodology with the intuitive traditions  inherent in his own cultural background. 

Badran's award-winning buildings and environments stand in stark contrast to  self-conscious, anonymous architecture devoid of any reference to people,  place, or culture. He offers a humane solution to the deliberately commodified  and environmentally inarticulate architecture that is becoming the norm in the  developed world today. 

This book brings together the architect's own dramatic collection of drawings,  plans and photographs, many seen here for the first time. A comprehensive  chronology of Badran's work completes this fascinating survey of one of the  most influential and revolutionary architects of our time.