Dr. Gulzar Haider is the Former Director and Professor Emeritus, University of Carleton, Canada. In 2005, he established the School of Architecture at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan and is the current Dean of the School of Arc
...MoreDr. Gulzar Haider is the Former Director and Professor Emeritus, University of Carleton, Canada. In 2005, he established the School of Architecture at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan and is the current Dean of the School of Architecture at the University. He is a scholar of Islamic Art. He completed his BS in Engineering from Punjab University, Lahore, in 1958, his MS in Engineering (1962), BA in Architecture (1968) and PhD (1969) from the University of Illinois, USA. Since the early 1980s he has been deeply involved with issues of architecture and culture with special focus on architecture as a mirror for Muslim self-image in the West. He designed and built four major mosques in North America and has widely written about the need for Abrahamic values shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam toward shaping the environment and achieving peace.
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