Education

2018-2020
Masters in Architecture and Urbanism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

2012-2016
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon

Professional Experience

10/2019- Current
Urban Designer/Researcher, Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), MIT
Researched, analyzed, and proposed design alternatives for the adaptive reuse of an infrastructure site within a watershed.

Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant, Urban Design Studio, MIT
Assisted in teaching the “From Ocean to Table: Thai Coastal Urbanism” studio based in Angsila,Thailand, with Professor Miho Mazereeuw.

Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant, Urban Design Studio, MIT
Assisted in teaching the “30-Minute City Polycentric Urbanism” studio based in Queensland, Australia, with Professors Rafi Segal, Alan Berger and Jonah Susskind.

09/2019-12/2019
Research Assistant, Design Earth
Investigated and produced speculative drawings on the future of the Earth under geo-engineering projects, led by Rania Ghosn.

Summer 2019
Research Assistant, Urban Design Project, MIT
Proposed a preliminary housing development along Canals in China, led by Professor Rafi Segal.

10/2016 - 07/2018
Landscape Designer, Stimson Landscape Architects, Cambridge, MA
Worked on projects from phases ranging from SD to CD; Harvard Allston Science Complex, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hardberger Park Landbridge.

05/2015- 08/2015
Landscape Architect Intern, Grupo Aranea Architects, Alicante, Spain
Created designs from conceptual to schematic phases, conducted regional analysis and led the organization of workshops.

Awards

05/2020- 08/2020
Aga Khan Grant, Architecture Department MIT
Awarded a research grant to continue working on my thesis titled “Contested Valleys, Reclaiming the Common Landscape in Bisri, Lebanon”.

2018-2020
Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship, MIT

05/2016
9th International Biennale of Landscape Architecture, Barcelona
Honorary Mention, ‘International Prize for University Projects’.

Exhibitions

05-08/2019
Collective for Architecture Lebanon (CAL), Beit Beirut Museum, Lebanon
Exhibited my Bachelor in Landscape Architecture Thesis, a design proposal of a park that reconnects the city to the sea in Beirut.

09-11/2018
Earth on Display, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA
Part of the MIT ‘Experiments in Pedagogy’ workshops, the project on how deforestation is violence against indigeneity in Borneo Forest was presented and exhibited.

08-09/2014
Venice Biennale 2014, Swiss Pavilion, Italy
Selected to explore urban typologies in Lebanon’s mountains and exhibit the projects at the Venice Biennale.

Workshops

06-10/2019
Tajikistan Mountain Village Planning and Design Workshop, Tajikistan
Analyzed and proposed relocation strategies for villages at high risk of natural hazards with local community members, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH).

02-05/2019
Crowd Sourced City, MIT Workshop, MIT Campus
Analyzed the underutilized public spaces in MIT and designed architectural interventions based on tactical urbanism principals.

11/2018
LCAU Moreton Bay Workshop, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
Proposed conceptual strategies for the Innovation Districts in Moreton Bay, Australia.

05/2015
The Civil Campaign to Protect the Dalieh of Raouche, Beirut, Lebanon
Worked with a group of designers in a campaign to propose a project that re-envisions Beirut’s coast.

03/2015
Conference on “Refugees and Marginalized Communities in Lebanon and Egypt”, AUB  
Designed and presented a design project that connects refugee camps to surrounding local communities.

08/2013
Design Build Workshop, AUB Civil Engineering Society, South Lebanon
Designed a public garden and led a team of volunteers to implement the project during the nine-day camp in the village of Tebnine, South Lebanon.

Publications

2019
Planning and Design for Voluntary Relocation, MIT Design Workshop Report, 2019
Team member in design and research
Editor:  Dorothy Tang

2018
Earth on Display, Experiments in Pedagogy, MIT
Architecture  150th Anniversary, 2018
Team member in design and research
Copy Editor:  Semine Long-Callesen

Skills

Software
AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bluebeam, Google SketchUp, Google Earth Pro, ArcGIS, Rhino3D, Grasshopper, Vray, Lumion, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

Languages
English (fluent), Arabic (fluent/native), French (basic)