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The Department of Architecture and Design at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut Cordially invites you to its Symposium & Exhibition on the occasion of the AUB Architecture 50th Anniversary, on Friday October 5, 2018. The exhibition will be open until Friday November 30, 2018.

Symposium curated by Robert Saliba (2-6pm); Exhibition curated by Ghaith&Jad, Abir Eltayeb & Mustapha Jundi + Architecture 50th Yearbook co-edited by Abir Eltayeb & Aram Yeretzian (6-8pm).

All are welcome! We look forward to seeing many of you!

http://www.aub.edu.lb/Events/Pages/Details.aspx?ItemId=456

Nathalie Harb's 'Silent Room' is featured as one of the best ten installations at the London Design Biennale 2018 according to Dezeen
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/04/best-installations-london-design-biennale-2018/

Lebanese architect Raëd Abillama weaves Beirut’s history into contemporary designs - The Architects Newspaper

Lebanese architect Raëd Abillama weaves Beirut’s history into contemporary designs Raëd Abillama tours several of his projects that combine historical structures and contemporary additions, offering a look inside his design process and the history of Beirut's architecture.

Very interesting session on 'Modern Architecture and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century' chaired by Dr. Abdallah Kahil at The College Art Association (CAA) in Los Angeles, February 21–24, 2018.
The deadline for submissions is August 14, 2017.http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/call-for-participation.pdf

Student Ideas Competition

Urban SOS: hOUR City hOUR City is this year’s Urban SOS™ student ideas competition. We’re asking students to propose new solutions to tackle housing, transportation, or economic development challenges and to re-imagine what a future “hour city” boundary can be.

EARTH IS ARCHITECTURE: Architecture, Public Space, Infrastructure
Lecture by Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger-Kohler at LAU, Beirut.
http://www.archileb.com/article.php?id=831

EARTH IS ARCHITECTURE: Architecture, Public Space, Infrastructure The Department of Architecture & Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design at the Lebanese American University, has the pleasure to invite you to a lecture presented by Pierre Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger-Kohler entitled “EARTH IS ARCHITECTURE: Architecture, Public Space, Infrastructure” T...

Changing Cities, Mutating Societies: A Dialogue about Arab Cities through Literature, Architecture, and Urbanism

A discussion between Elias Khoury and Jad Tabet

If you are interested in radical Arab architectural production, then visit and like our new page 'Arab Brutalism'
https://www.facebook.com/arab.brutalism/?fref=nf

High Institute of Marine Research-Latakia-Syria-Burhan Tayara-1971-1980 © Aga Khan

Arab Center for Architecture (ACA) Fundraising Event: Screening of 'Talking To My Father', a documentary that features two voices from two eras each concerned with how the Irish as a nation understand the architecture that surrounds their lives

Screening of Talking to My Father: ACA Fundraising Event

Anthony Saroufim's architecture graduation project at the ESA, Paris.

The Egg as a War Memorial Anthony Saroufim, a committed photographer, has just completed his architectural degree at the ESA in Paris. For his final project, merging photography and architecture, he produced interesting images in relation to the Egg, a derelict building in downtown Beirut, designed by Joseph Philippe Karam b…

Does your artistic project deal with the refugee crisis?

Call for contributions: Artistic projects dealing with the refugee crisis Call for contributions: Artistic projects dealing with the refugee crisis While an increasing number of people flee their devastated countries and seek shelter in the "dreamland" Europe - Europe itself does not seem to be ready for this unprecedented change. How do artists react to this new reality…