Abu Zaid Rajeh

Abu Zaid Hassan Rajeh (born January 1, 1926, in Zagazig - died October 22, 2020, in Cairo) was an Egyptian architect and urban planner. Rajeh held various official positions, including chairman of the Board of Directors of the Public Housing and Development Commission, the first government agency on social housing, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Housing and Construction Research affiliated with the Ministry of Housing of Egypt.

He was also a member of the specialized councils affiliated with the Presidency of the Republic, a member of the Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development, and a member of the Architecture Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture. Apart from his official work, Rajeh founded his own architectural and engineering consulting office in 1958 with the architect Hassan Anwar and wrote numerous researches and books on housing and urban issues, the most famous of which is Egyptian Urbanism, which was published in two parts.

Biography
Rajeh was born in Zagazig in the Sharkia governorate in 1926. From 1936 to 1939, he studied at the Emiri Primary School there and graduated from the high school in 1944. He then joined the Faculty of Engineering in the Cairo University, from which he graduated in 1949. He then obtained a master's degree from Harvard University in 1951, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1956.