Mr. Faysal Tabbarah | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

College of Architecture, Art and Design
Department of Architecture

Teaching areas

Research areas

Environmental Orientalism; MENA Material Practices; Computational Design and Craft; Architecture, Agriculture and National Imaginaries.

Education

MArc, Architecture And Urbansim, Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL), United Kingdom, 2011
BArc, Architecture, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2008

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2880

Mr. Faysal Tabbarah

Associate Professor

Faysal Tabbarah is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah. Tabbarah’s teaching and research interrogate the potential of activating Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) material and environmental practices to drive innovative contemporary design and building solutions by exploring context-driven modes of production, alternative material systems, and the relationship between environmental and architectural imaginaries. At AUS, Tabbarah teaches core and option design studios, seminars integrate issues of Orientalism and the built and natural e...

Publications

Faysal Tabbarah. A Goodly and Clean River Runneth: The Barada River as Imagined by Ecochard, 2021
Faysal Tabbarah. Curiously Floating: An Unenvironmental History of a Clay Brick Panel, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021

Conference Presentations

Environmentalism's Suspicious Roots: Data and the Erasure of Culture, Deep City: Climate Crisis, Democracy And The Digital, March 2021
Architecture + Other Things, Dezeen + Irthi Livestream, December 2020
Other Environmentalisms, September 2020

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