Meet the Author
Faysal Tabbarah
Faysal Tabbarah is the Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah. He is also Co-founder of Architecture + Other Things, an architecture and design studio based in 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 environments, computational design seminars, and required structures courses.
Works by the Author
On Foraging - Food knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE's landscape
Co-published with 421
Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World
Co-published with Collective for Architecture