建筑师，当代建筑实践的董事。拉希姆先生是宾夕法尼亚大学永久性建筑设计组（permanent architecture design faculty）的成员，主持设计研究工作室工作，同时协助指导建筑学硕士研究生毕业设计课程。拉希姆先生最近被奥地利维也纳应用艺术大学（di Angewandte Kunst）任命为扎哈•哈迪德客座教授（Zaha Hadid Visiting Professor），并作为路易•康客座建筑学教授（Louis I Kahn Visiting Architecture Professor）服务于耶鲁大学建筑学教授，同时也是哈佛大学客座建筑学教授。

Ali Rahim is an architect, Director of Contemporary Architecture Practice in New York City and a (Full) Professor of Architectural Design at theUniversity of Pennsylvania where he is the Director of Design Research Studios - the final year of the Master of Architecture Design Program.

Mr. Rahim has recently served as the Zaha Hadid Guest Architectural Design Professor at the University of Applied Arts[di Angewandte] in Vienna, Austria and has served as the Louis I Kahn Visiting Architecture Design Professor at Yale University and Visiting Architecture Design Professor at Harvard University. Mr. Rahim’s books include Catalytic Formations: Architecture and Digital Design in Chinese by the China Building Press with additional writing and projects in February 2012 and is in its second English Edition originally published by Routledge, March 2006. He has also Guest Edited three Architecture Design volumes published by Academy Editions. John Wiley and Sons: Contemporary Processes in Architecture, 2000, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, 2002 and Elegance, Co-edited with Hina Jamelle in 2007.