Future Airports

Ali Rahim is an architect and founding Director of Contemporary Architecture Practice and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania where he directs the Advanced Architectural Design program. Ali Rahim holds a Master's Degree in Architecture from Columbia University, where he won the Honor Award Excellence in Architectural Design and the Kinney Traveling Fellowship. Ali has previously served as the Zaha Hadid Studio Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a Louis Kahn Visiting Architecture Design Professor at Harvard University. Ali Rahim has authored and co-edited books on contemporary design including Catalytic Formations (2011) in Chinese with additional projects and texts, Elegance (2007) with Hina Jamelle, Catalytic Formations: Architecture and Digital Design (2006) in its second edition, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture (2002).