| Ja'afar Tuqan | |
|---|---|
| جعفر طوقان | |
| Born | (1938-01-19)January 19, 1938 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | November 25, 2014(2014-11-25) (aged 76) Amman, Jordan |
| Occupation | Architect |
Ja'afar Tuqan (Arabic: جعفر طوقان, romanized: Jaʿfar Ṭūqān; 19 January 1938 – 25 November 2014) was a Palestinian-Jordanian architect.
Life and career
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.
Career
Tuquan designed the Municipality of Amman in Ras al Ayn in association with Rasem Badran, 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, the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, 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 in Aqaba, Jordan.
Tuqan served on the Board of Trustees of the Palestinian Art Court – Al Hoash.
Death
Tuquan died on 25 November 2014 in Amman, Jordan.
Notes
- Also romanized as Jafar Tukan.
References
- ^ "Jafar Tukan". Archnet. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "Greater Amman Municipality". Archnet. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- "About the Museum". Yasser Arafat Museum. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- "Mahmoud Darwish Memorial Museum". Herskhazeen. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- "SOS Children's Village Aqaba, Jordan". Aga Khan Development Network. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008.
- "Board of Trustees". Palestinian ART Court - Alhoash. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011.
- Exhibition of Touqan's works at French Cultural Centre
- Spotlight on talent, THE STAR, September 29, 2003
- Designed the Royal Automobile Museum Archived 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
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