Halah Abi Haydar

Full-time Senior Lecturer
e-mail: habihaydar@azmuniversity.edu.lb

Holder of a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut Mrs. Abi Haydar is Lecturer in the field of architecture and design and a syndicated freelance architect with more than 20 years’ experience of which 9 years are spent in the academic domain. She is currently teaching in a number of universities being in charge of both theoretical and practical design studio courses in the discipline of Architecture. Her concentration is history of architecture, covering the Prehistoric all through to the Modern periods. Her seminar courses also explore architecture production in the post-modern condition. Her design research track that informs her design studios is to infuse a sense of experimentation, discovery, and inquisition about architectural spatial design in general, and to incite the students to develop a sensitive, critical and analytical eye towards their environment and the architectural manifestations as directly related to their very own culture.