Hassan M. K. ABDEL-SALAM is Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design – Currently Dean of Faculty of Architecture, Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University- Lebanon. He is Former Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. A graduate of Alexandria University, he has been awarded a PhD Degree from Oxford Brookes University - UK. He teaches several courses of Architectural Design, Theory of Architecture, Criticism, Urban Planning, Housing, Design Economics and Sustainability, and participates in several Academic Development and Quality Assurance programs. He also holds positions as academic consultant, advisor, and external-examiner at other universities / institutions in Egypt and Lebanon, developing a broad experience in the field of education of Architecture, Urbanism, and Environmental Sustainability. Recently, he has been involved in the review of academic curricula and standards of educational programs, in several departments of Architecture locally and regionally, and has taken part in Report Group Visits for International Validation by UNESCO-UIA. He is engaged in focused research with particular interest in Contemporary Architectural and Planning Trends, Environmentalism and Contextualism. In addition, he is actively involved in scientific publishing, including editing and reviewing of research articles, through his role as Member of the Editorial Board of Urban Design International (Palgrave MacMillan, UK), Architecture and Planning Journal (Beirut Arab University, Leb.), Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Journal (Arab Academy for Science and Technology), and Alexandria Engineering Journal (Alexandria University), and as Reviewer / Referee for several boards, scientific journals and conferences, namely: the Supreme Council of Universities (Egy.), Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, and Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Cairo University).