Abstract
This article presents an example of the academic life of a faculty member in the Department of Architecture and Building Science, at the College of Architecture and Planning, King Saud University. It displays his interaction with housing, as one of the subjects of architecture and urbanization, over the span of more than forty years. The article records the writer's journey with studying, researching, and teaching housing, as well as providing consultations to a number of government and private agencies. It follows, in chronological stages, the writer's experience in the subject of housing. At each stage the article highlights the factors that shaped that stage and influenced it, whether consequences of people's influence, events related directly to the writer's life, or even unexpected external circumstances. The article is divided into stages that formed the writer academic focus on housing and influenced his career; it starts by presenting factors that prepared him to join the Department of Architecture, until the time he became a professor of housing at King Saud University, and the subsequent years. The article aims to document a period of the architectural education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It presents an experience loaded with lessons and guidance to help upcoming generations of students, researchers and faculty members, to achieve greater accomplishments or, at least, enjoy the reading.