May 2001
Margaret Livingston, assistant professor in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona in Tucson, delivered a public lecture at Darat al-Funun in Amman entitled Creating Landscapes in Water - Scarce Environments:  A Case Study of Tucson, Arizona.  The lecture was cosponsored by the American Center in Amman, the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE), Darat al-Funun / The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, and WEPIA (Water Efficiency and Public Information for Action), a project funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in collaboration with the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

 

The Applied Sciences University in Amman organized two lectures by Jordanian architects Akram Abu Hamdan (On the Edge of Architecture) and Bilal Hammad (Selected Works).