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Professor Samer Akkach is a prominent academic at the University of Adelaide's School of Architecture and Civil Engineering within the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology. He joined the university in 1993 after completing his Master of Architectural Design at UNSW (1985) and PhD at the University of Sydney (1992). As a leading scholar in architectural history, Islamic studies, and Middle Eastern urban history, he founded the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) in 1997 to address Eurocentric biases in architectural discourse.
His research focuses on early modern Islamic intellectual history, urban secularism in Damascus, and pre- and post-Copernican Islamic cosmology. Key contributions include editing seminal works like Self, Place, and Imagination (1999) and De-Placing Difference (2002). CAMEA conferences such as the 2016 Ilm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam reflect his commitment to cross-cultural architectural thinking.
Akkach’s publications bridge architecture, philosophy, and cultural studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to urban form and sacred space. His work critiques conventional architectural education and advocates for inclusive, culturally sensitive design frameworks.
