Siblings Urieb Touqan | ||
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Parents Ibrahim Tuqan, Samia Abd al-Hadi Similar Rasem Badran, Ibrahim Tuqan, Ahmad Toukan, Fadwa Tuqan | ||
Ja'afar Tuqan (Arabic: جعفر طوقان) (also spelled Jafar Tukan; born in 1938 in Jerusalem, Palestine) is a Palestinian-Jordanian architect. He designed the Municipality of Amman in Ras al Ayn, and he belongs to several committees including that of the National Gallery. Ja'afar Tuqan also designed the Royal Automobile Museum, The Jordan Museum, the Central Bank of Jordan building and the Jordan Gate Towers.
He is the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his 1991 design of a Children's Village - Aqaba, Jordan.
Tuqan is also on the Board of Trustees of the Palestinian Art Court – Al Hoash.
Tuqan graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1960. He is the son of the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, writer of the poem Mawtini, the current national anthem of Iraq. He is also the nephew of both the Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Toukan and the Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan and thus a member of the Tuqan family.
He died on November 25th, 2014 in Amman, Jordan