Education 2012 On-going PhD thesis: "Imprints of the Landscape Capital in the Arab World". EHESS (School of Higher studies in Social Sciences), Paris. 2001-2002 Masters (DEA): Gardens, Landscapes, Territories, school of architecture of Paris-La-Villette, School of higher studies in social sciences and La Sorbonne (Institute of Geography), Paris. Grade: Très bien 18/20. Subject of the thesis: Traversée dans la créativité de Bernard Lassus, Supervised by Mr. Augustin Berque. Nov. 1994 Architecture Diploma: Museum and Gardens of Aromatic Plants under the direction of the architect Alain Sarfati, UPA4. 1987 1989 Diploma of Fundamental Studies in Architecture: DEFA, at the fine arts schools of Paris (UPA4). 1984-1985 High school diploma in experimental sciences, Beirut. Nationality Lebanese Syndicate of Lebanese Engineers. Registration No: 19072 Competence - Computer softwares: 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office - 10 years Architectural experience in several small studios and the department of Architecture and Urban Design of over 250 people firms; - Design, design development and coordination with all construction departments and clients, with supervision on sites. - 3D images and presentation for modern and classical architectural projects of surfaces oscillated between 1000m 2 and 135,000 m 2. - Team works on huge urban and landscape design project competitions. - Studies and personal research. Academic Experience American University of Beirut; Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences; Department of Landscape Design 2012-2013 History of Landscape II (Renaissance till Modernism) Page 1
2011-2012 Teaching courses: History and Theory of Landscape Current Issues in Landscape Architecture Professional Practices Since 2009 Teaching Studios: Landscape II, Landscape III. Lecturer: History and Theory of Landscape Development with Landscape studio III students of three projects in coordination with the AUB, an NGO and Kfaryachit municipality. 2009-2010 In charge of the Final Year Project (4 th year). Spring 2009 Teaching Studio: Landscape Design I Lebanese American University (LAU), School of Architecture and Design. Beirut and Byblos Campuses Since October 2006 - present Lecturer Teaching courses: History of Landscape Design, History of Design, 19 th and 20 th C. Design Culture Alba (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts), Sin El-Fil. Since Spring 2006 - present Masters program of Landscape Lecturer: "History of Landscape" and "Theory of Landscape" Lebanese University, Institute of Fine Arts, Hadath campus Since October 2005 - Present Lecturer Teaching Courses: "Theory of Architecture" (1 st year Architecture) "Principles of the Environment" (4 th year of Interior Design) Teaching Studios of Architecture (3 rd, 4 th and 5 th years) Masters program of Landscape: Landscape Concepts And follow up students final projects Page 2
University of Balamand. Alba (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts), Koura. 2003 - present Lecturer Teaching courses: - Residential spaces (Maters degree) - Sociology of the Habitat - Conceptual design I - Theory of Architecture. - Building Construction I - Initiation to Landscape Professional Experience 2011-2012 - Running Landscape design and design development on private lands in Koura, Nabatyeh, Joaya, Baalbeck - Ibsar, AUB. Finding the landscape solutions by re-contextualizing three villages of Lebanon: Batloun, Koueikh and Ersal. A landscape approach where sustainability, landscape, social health and food quality are main constituents. - Rehabilitation of an existing structure on the sea shore of Adloun (south of Lebanon). Transformation of the building to accommodate 8 chalets of 45 m 2 each and their services. Design development and execution drawings of the architectural, landscape and interior components. (Area: 800 m 2, ongoing project) - Interior Design development of a sweet and cake shop and transformation of a parking space to a playground for children in Aramoun. (Area: 920 m 2, ongoing project) - Complete interior design of an apartment in Sodeco (Beirut). Area: 120 m 2. - Design and design development and supervision of several houses in Nabatyeh, Ezza and Anssar 2010 - Design and construction documents for a private garden in Bint Jbeil, South of Lebanon. Area 3700 m 2 divided in two lands. It contains a swimming pool, barbecue, playground for children, an orchard, aviary, a kennel, a henhouse and a nest for partridge and quail hatching. On-going project. Page 3
- Design development of a private villa in Batroumine, Koura (North of Lebanon). Design and construction documents of its 2200 m 2 garden. On-going project. - Design of a Natural Water Source for the village of Bayno, Akkar. Design phase and coordination with the mayor. - Design development of a private villa in Chakra (South of Lebanon): Wrought iron, windows, cladding etc. - Design of a 3000 m2 private garden in Sawené, (South of Lebanon) for a previously designed villa. It includes big parking spaces with roundabout, orchard of fruit trees, two swimming pools, barbecue and sitting areas. - Design of a complete bedroom for a psychoanalyst doctor which includes single bed, wardrobe, working desk, mirror and cabinets with wood carving etc. 2006 - Present Construction of private residences in the south of Lebanon Reconstruction work for several houses after the July 2006's war. May 2007 CODD bureau. Concept design and Design development for residential complex in Achrafieh composed of 60 apartments with average area of 180 m 2, distributed on a mid rise building and a high rise one, Beirut. October 2006 Concept design for the private garden of His Beatitude Patriarch Hazim at Balamand Campus. April 2006 Interior design for an Iranian restaurant in Mouawad Street. Beirut December 2005 Execution drawings for a Diwanyah building in Kuwait. Concept design and presentation for an Office building in Kuwait. November 2005 Concept design of a Garden Landscape for His Highness Prince Faisal Bin Khaled Bin Sultan Palace. KSA, Riyadh. April-June 2003 Page 4
Architect Consultant for Saudi Diyar (Jeddah), in collaboration with Pickard Chilton-USA. Concept design for a complex on the red Sea composed by: a 350m high Tower (7 stars hotel and royal apartments); a Marina; 5 Stars Hotel; apartments towers; Cultural center; an Amphitheater; restaurants complex, Health club and Central park; in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Total area: 750,000 m 2. Land area: 130,000 m 2. Feb-April 2003 Rehabilitation and interior design for a restaurant in Paris. Area 400m 2. Paris, France. 1998 2001 Architect, Diyar Consultants Beirut, Cairo, Jeddah, Marrakech. Projects Undertaken: Concept design for King Abdul Aziz Medical Center, Riyadh. Total built up area 2,711 m 2. Concept design and design development for a private library for Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Riyadh. Total area 1,000m 2. Under construction. Preliminary design for 2 palaces (royal complex) in Marrakesh and Riyadh, area 15,000m 2 each. Concept design for a private library for Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, Riyadh. Total area, 4,000 m2. Under construction. Concept design for Al Shahri Villa in Jeddah. Total area 2000 m 2. Concept design for Al Bilad Villa in Jeddah. Total area 1,000 m 2. Design Development for the Moheisen Center office building in Jeddah. Total area 15,000 m 2. 3D presentation for SEDCO, Economic and Development Company, Jeddah. Total area 12,400 m 2. Design development for 2 office buildings in Riyadh. Area 7,500 m 2 each. Under construction. Concept design and 3D studies for Al Barakah housing complex competition. Total built up area 135,000 m 2. Awarded project. Preliminary design for Asir Shopping Mall, Asir. Total area 14,500 m 2. Concept design and design development for ALJ Toyota, Lexus Showroom and Workshop, Riyadh. Total area 14,500 m 2. Preliminary design and 3D modeling for Al Shaya commercial and residential complex, Beirut. Total area 60,000 m 2. Concept design for Jabal Omar complex competition in Makkah. Built up area 1.250000 m 2. Proposal elevations model for a Hotel and Hospital Ajiad in Makkah, for the Corniche Residential Building in Jeddah and for The Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain. Page 5
1995 1998 Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners), Beirut, Dubai, Doha, Cairo, London. Architecture Department 1. External works for 100 villas at the West Bay Lagoon in Qatar. 2. Reconstruction project of the Phoenicia hotel in Beirut: a) Survey of the two existing blocks, five floors and 3 parking basements. b) Proposal for internal design and a new elevation structure. c) Concept design and window-wall sections and plans for a third residential block as a second phase of construction. d) Window-walls sections and plans for new facades and restoration details for characteristics elements of the hotel (canopy, claustra ). 3. Execution documents of a service building extension for Le Casino du Liban Jounieh, Lebanon. 4. Tender document for a village of 10 villas and commercial center for the Sheikh Faisal Ibn Kassem Althani in Aley, Lebanon: a) External works for private gardens. b) Elevation drawings and section details for different parking entrances. 5. Proposal project for the international congress, conference center and hotel in Manara, Beirut. 6. A trip to Qatar for the design proposal of six state projects in Doha: The court of Justice, Ministry of Justice, a Mosque, a Muslim Museum, The Awkaf Ministry and Charia Court and design proposal for Doha Hotel Development Competition. 7. Design proposals for Luanda Grand Hotel in Angola, Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus (Syria), and Break Water Hotel in Abu Dhabi. 8. Tender document for a villa for Mr. A. Bin Khalifa Al-Attiya. Abadieh; Lebanon. 9. Tender document for a several villas in West Bay Lagoon, Qatar. 10. Working drawings for the Dubai Airport Free zone. Town Planning Department Elyssar project: planning and development of Beirut South Western suburbs low cost housing and workshops. G.BARBATO Agency, Paris 1992 1993 Surveying and executing design for a 16 th C. Caravanserai restoration in Sanaa (Yemen) and for a 13 th C. souk in Jerusalem. 1991 1992 Page 6
Association des Foyers de Jeunes Travailleurs, Paris Working out of a Generative Method memento under the direction of Michel Conan and Eric Daniel Lacombe based on the young workers residences of Paris, Lille, Cannes, Valenciennes, and Arras Visiting and analyzing vital spaces through the search for architectural and transactional problems. Discussing the problems with the residents, personnel and administrative staff with the support of questionnaires. Decoding the survey and representing global and specific organizational diagrams corresponding to different transactional spaces. 1990 1991 B. GOFFARD Agency, Paris Surveying and executing plans for Salvador Dali Museum at Montmartre, Paris. E. LEMARIE AND T. NABERES Agency, Paris Executing details for the Quimper swimming pool with the collaboration of A. Sarfati agency. Participation in the competition for Levallois swimming pool; Award project. Tender document for retirement housing at Cergy Pontoise and final supervision of 30 apartments building in Aubervilliers, Paris. 1989 1990 Air France; Central Enterprise Committee; Orly, Paris. Realization of three scales models for a holiday village and a sports center. Conferences & Seminars 1999 Delegate from Saudi Diyar to participate to the international Middle- East Architectural Review Conference held in Dubai: Modernity and Tradition in Architecture. 1993 1994 Participation in following seminars at the EHESS: Page 7
The territory: geographical representations and political practices by Marie O. Marignier and Daniel Nordman. Anthropology and History of Sciences in the Indian world, The Garden and The Forest by Francis Zimmermann. Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of higher studies in social sciences, Paris) 1992 1993 G. Barbato Agency, Paris. Training period in Architecturological studies of the Mamluk architecture in Jerusalem. Publication Annahar Newspaper: في غرفة مقفلة" "صراخ or screams in a closed room. Kadaya page. 16 th of August 2006, Beirut. "Beirut, Unknown land", Chapter in a book; released summer 2008; Paris. Kill him, Crush him, no trespassing in the woods, in At the Edge of the City. Released spring 2010 Languages French, English & Arabic : Spoken and Written Fluently Page 8