Education, practice, recognition.

Thesis: Re-imagining Colonial Heritage: Regenerating Beirut's First Modern Icon, the St. George Hotel and Bay. Advisor: Prof. Angelo Figliola. Grade: 110/110 e lode.

Thesis: The Architecture of Political Power — Architecture as a Tool and an End. Advisors: Dr. Abdulaziz Al Saqobi, Arch. Fareed Abdal. Grade: 3.56/4.00.

Faculty in the Department of Architecture. Co-taught first-year design basics — hand modelling, drafting, and the development of conceptual design thinking.

Europan 18, Polignano a Mare — Special Mention. Responsible for the bioclimatic strategy across the four sites, integrating nature-based solutions into the urban layout, and producing presentation drawings, 3D models and diagrams.

Kuwait Pavilion and book publication at the Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition explored the dissonance between space, time and matter in shaping environments, critiquing an architectural evolution in which modernization erodes vernacular heritage and favours demolition over adaptation.

Energy-efficient residential buildings with solar power infrastructure. Responsible for the design process from concept through to supervising final detailed drawings.

Established an innovation lab applying 3D printing and parametric industrial design to the medical industry.

Pilot research on urban sustainable development in Kuwait, studying the post-oil development boom and architecture's role in fuelling it. The project explored rammed earth and other alternative building methods in a contemporary settlement on the city's outskirts. Green Product Award nominee, 2022.

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Presented an adaptive ecological pavilion design focused on climate adaptation in fragile Mediterranean landscapes.

A prototype exploring a more open, collaborative building process using earth as the primary material, integrating vernacular architecture with permaculture principles.

Among the first recipients for best project and research proposal, in a competition on the use of the senses in architecture.