Carla AramounyAmerican University of Beirut | AUB · School of Architecture and Design
Carla Aramouny
M.Arch University of Pennsylvania
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Introduction
I am an architect and assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, Department of Architecture and Design. Prior to joining AUB as full time faculty, I practiced architecture in several renowned offices in Beirut and New York. My research and work as both an academic and an architect focus on the relationship of architecture and the extended environment, through themes of hybridity, infrastructure, ecology, and materiality.
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This paper presents the applied research and design work on innovative and sustainable building products developed by an undergraduate architecture seminar course. It presents the case for innovative uses of cement-based products, while framing the proposals within a global shift toward environmentally responsive and bio-integrated material...
https://issuu.com/carlaaramouny/docs/ard_postulates
When teaching design and architecture in oscillation between practice and academia, we are inescapably bound by questions of context; our environment reflects greatly on us and our perception and forms the basis of our design approach and rhetoric. In teaching, we attempt to engage students in reflecting on, observing and rethinking their contexts....
Digital fabrication, between advancements in software, simulation, and machinery, is pushing practice today towards more complexity in design, allowing for unparalleled explorations. Yet at no time have questions of material knowledge become more relevant and crucial, as technological advancements approach a radical re-invention of the design proce...
In 2016, a controversial competition was launched by the Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects, on a land purchased in the coastal town of Damour south of Beirut. The lot, historically an agricultural field of banana plantations fertile with the nearby Damour River, is a contested agricultural plain, involving a planned but unutilized transit...
article on Pierre El Khoury's architecture project Basilica of Harissa in Lebanon, designed in the late 60s.
This paper presents the work done during a Vertical Design studio, held at the Department of Architecture and Design in Beirut, and discusses the studio design methods that evoke experimental model making and narrative programming. The work presented develops on themes of locality, landscapes as systems of reference for design, physical constructs...
Engineering and architecture is aimed at improving the life of humans by designing and building products and services to the needs of civilizations. In real life settings, designing and building a product/service is a multidisciplinary event that involves the collaboration of a variety of specialists from different backgrounds. Accordingly, student...
