University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student, Architecture
College of Environmental Design
Yehuda Kalay
Andrew Shanken
Whitney Davis
About
I received my Bachelor degree in Urban Design from Ain-Shams University and my Masters degree in Architecture from Cairo University, Egypt.
I am a licensed architect in my home country Egypt where I practiced as a freelancer for five years. I was involved in the design of the American University in Cairo (AUC) new campus, High Technology Institute (HTI) in Menya new campus, and many other smaller projects. Concurrently, I was teaching at the Department of Architecture at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST).
I enrolled in the PhD program at UC Berkeley in Fall 2005. My major is in Design Theories and Methods (Advisor: Yehuda Kalay) and my minors are in Anthropological Archeology (Advisor: Ruth Tringham) and in the History of Art (Advisor: Whitney Davis). My research interest is in virtual reconstruction of places. I am especially interested in the perception of place, place and memory, heritage, virtuality, representation and meaning.
I became a PhD candidate in Spring 2008. Members of my dissertation committee are: Yehuda Kalay (Architecture), Andrew Shanken (Architecture) and Whitney Davis (History of Art).
I am a Designated Emphasis student at the Berkeley Center for New Media and a member of the Digital Design Research Group (DDRG). I am a fellow of UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty and the former chair of the International Students Affair Committee (ISAC) of UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly.
Contact Information
370 Wurster Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1800
