Dima Srouji
PalestineJuly – September 2019
Palestinian architect working in the expanded context of interdisciplinary research-based projects. Her work explores intersectionalities of art and architecture through historic strata and spatial edges, and questions issues of place. More specifically, her work deals with critical cartography and constructs alternative architectural narratives focused on the MENASA region. She has exhibited her work in multiple cultural platforms in the Middle East including Amman and Dubai Design Weeks, the Qattan Foundation and the Third Line Gallery Library in Dubai and will be exhibited at Art Dubai in 2019. She has lived and practiced in London, New Haven at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Milan at Cino Zucchi Architetti and Ramallah at the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation. Srouji is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture where she was the teaching fellow for Professor Peter Eiseman for two years as well as a teaching assistant for Todd Reisz. She presently serves as a board member on the Yale Arab Alumni Association and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of Sharjah.
Supported by the Sharjah Architecture Triennial.