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Farid Trad
1901 - 1969
Nationality
Lebanon

Education
Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris

Degree
Engineer
Year
1926

Farid Trad at a jury at ALBA in 1949
Source: Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
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Work
StartEndBuildingLocationCountry
19301932Hotel Omayad Palace in DamascusDamascusSyria
1933Building Toufic Sbat in AleppoAleppoSyria
19361940Hotel RegentBeirutLebanon
19391940Villa and clinic Dr. HittiBeirutLebanon
19471948UNESCO PalaceBeirutLebanon
1956Al-Zahra cinema (Damascus)DamascusSyria
19591963Beirut CourthouseBeirutLebanon
19661967Hotel BristolBeirutLebanon
Number of published projects in the database: 8
Notes
Farid Trad epitomizes the multifaceted mouhandess who straddled engineering and architecture as well as the major changes in building.
Trad was born in 1901 in Turkey. In 1926, he graduated in engineering from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, and, until his death in 1969, had a fully accomplished career in Lebanon. He was a founding member of the Lebanese Association of Engineers and Architects in 1934; member of the board of ALBA since the founding of the School of Architecture in 1943 where he taught “Constructions Civiles”; founding member of the Order of Engineers and Architects in 1951, and was President in 1959-1960; President of the first board of the CEGP, with Fayez Ahdab and Henri Naccache as members; and member of the Higher Council of Planning.
Farid Trad was a builder. Epitomizing his generation, he was at the heart of the whole process, from sketching to detailed designing to actual building, without segregation between the various stages and specialties.
(George Arbid)

 
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