School of Architecture and Design at AUB

Congratulations to our second-year graphic design students in the Identity Design studio!

For their final project, each student developed a concept and name for a cultural entity, then created a complete communication language and visual identity system, ranging from house style and stationery to posters, social media posts, signage, promotional items, and more.

Each project reflects thoughtful design problem-solving and pushes the boundaries of visual identity for cultural institutions such as museums, record labels, cultural and art centers, music festivals, and beyond.

Selected projects by: Aya El Zein, Adam Zorkot, Alma Zgheib, Doha Al Lami, Karen Khatib, Cyma Shehab, Joudi Mourad, Zeinab Zeineddine, Mia Matar, Lynn Al Ghoche, Tamara Younes, Lya Chidiac, Selena Tabet, Lea Baydoun.

Our second-year Graphic Design students have officially completed Type 2 and shared their innovative work in the department lobby. Each poster showcases a blend of 3D analog and digital lettering, capturing a personal, historical, and current event that resonated with them. We are very proud of their achievement!

Our second-year Graphic Design students have officially completed Type 2 and shared their innovative work in the department lobby. Each poster showcases a blend of 3D analog and digital lettering, capturing a personal, historical, and current event that resonated with them. We are very proud of their achievement!

The School of Architecture and Design at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA) cordially invites you to a public lecture:

"Architecture as Frame for Life" by Vasa Perovic from Bevk Perović Arhitekti.

The lecture is scheduled on Wednesday, November 20, 2025, from 6:00 PM, at the Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH).

Abstract: Architecture goes beyond simple function, serving as a frame for life itself. This lecture explores how architecture responds to social, political, environmental, and material conditions, creating designs that transcend mere functionality. Through the work of Bevk Perović Arhitekti, we will examine their approach to reinterpreting architectural programs, emphasizing context, materiality, and environmental responsibility, with core principles visible throughout their architectural approach.

Vasa Perovic was founded Bevk Perović Arhitekti in 1997 in Ljubljana with Matija Bevk. The studio, with a team of around 18 architects, works across Europe and focuses on reinterpreting architectural programs by responding to social, political, environmental, and material conditions. They have received major international recognitions, including the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Award, the Kunstpreis Berlin, several Piranesi Awards, and the Plečnik Prize. They have also designed products, earning a Red Dot Design Award. Their work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, and they are active in teaching, emphasizing context, materiality, and environmental responsibility.

As part of Type 2 class, students selected regional sayings and developed explanatory postcard compositions based on them. They worked to balance experimentation and visual energy with clarity and legibility.
Work by: Aya El Zein, .khatib .mrd_

Congratulations to our talented third year graphic design students in Publication Design for pushing boundaries and sharing their unique perspectives in self-produced bilingual magazines. Each project reflects deep curiosity and design problem-solving, exploring themes such as language, urban narratives, alternative consumerism, Lebanese visual culture, and food heritage.

Photo credit: Mariam Sidani, Sky Maalouf

Congratulations to our talented third year graphic design students in Publication Design for pushing boundaries and sharing their unique perspectives in self-produced bilingual magazines. Each project reflects deep curiosity and design problem-solving, exploring themes such as language, urban narratives, alternative consumerism, Lebanese visual culture, and food heritage.

Photo credit: Mariam Sidani, Sky Maalouf

Join us for a book talk with Sonia Faleiro (Author), in collaboration with
Palestine Land Studies Center and the Center for Arts and Humanities at aub

The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia
Wednesday November 5 at 2:00 PM
Location: Issam Fares Institute, Conference Room, 4th floor, AUB

In conversation with: Jamil Mouawad, and Rania Abouzeid
This event is open to the public

More info: https://beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2071/

Join Us for a book talk with Sonia Faleiro (co-editor), in collaboration with
Palestine Land Studies Center and the Center for Arts and Humanities at


Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
Date and Time: Tuesday November 4 at 6:00 PM
Location: Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall, Issam Fares Institute
main auditorium, AUB

In conversation with:
Maryam Iqbal, Seteney Shami, Ghassan Abu-Sittah
This event is open to the public
The proceedings of the book will go to UNRWA

More Info: https://beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2070/

The School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut invites you to a lecture by Mira Kaddoura

Date & Time: Friday October 24th 2025, 6 PM
Location: *Engineering Lecture Hall, the Munib and Angela Masri Building* AUB Campus

Building the World You Want to See

Through her life and work, Mira Kaddoura builds the world she wants to see by weaving radical imagination into tangible creation. As Founder & Chief Creative of Red & Co., she creates work that shakes the status quo, like Google’s 'Made With Code,' Netflix’s 'Make Room' or Babyganics 'Here’s to Perfectly Imperfect Parenting,' creating systems of possibility.

Grounded in her Palestinian Lebanese heritage, immigrant experience, & feminist conviction, Mira shows us how futures rooted in justice, belonging, and visibility can co-create new worlds. Through every conceptual art project, brand brief, mentorship, public talk & 'Into Healing' podcast episode she is showing us the power of not only being architects of culture but how creativity, in the hands of those who dare, has the potential to change everything.

Mira is the Founder & Chief Creative of Red & Co., a company building Brands as Agents of Change. She started at Wieden+Kennedy with mentors like Dan Wieden shaping award-winning campaigns for Nike & The Girl Effect. A fierce believer in the power of creativity, she's earned many honors including ADCOLOR Change Agent, TED ads Worth Spreading & ADWEEK’s “Creative 100” & all the shiny advertising trophies like Cannes Gold Lions. Her TEDx Talk “How Women Can Change the World by Asking ‘Why Not Me?'”, received a standing ovation from 4,000 people.
As an Arab American, she’s proud to be challenging the status quo in everything she does & especially proud to be raising three multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, earth & justice-loving daughters.

The School of Architecture and Design at AUB invites you to a lecture by Liza Rose Cirolia

Wednesday October 29th, 2025, 6:00 PM
Location: Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB Campus

African New Cities: Speculation and World-Making from Urban Peripheries:
The contemporary wave of master planned “new cities” across the world has attracted the celebration and critique of urban studies scholars, activists, and decision-makers. In Africa, the drivers and aesthetics of new towns have transformed; while earlier waves tended to act in service of the political or business interests of these nations, current projects are inspired by experiments in the Middle East. These projects have often seemed garish and “out of touch with reality” against the backdrop of under-resourced planning departments, rampant informality, and high levels of inequality. In this lecture, the theme of African new cities will be explored, taking an intentionally "ambivalent" view of new cities in Africa, with the hopes that such a perspective has wider applicability. The lecture will begin by considering the value that African experiences – seemingly distinct and peripheral to global debates – have for other urban geographies. The talk will then turn to the case of a particular new city in the capital city of Somalia, built by a trans-local telecommunication company with the aims of attracting the diaspora returnee and investor. This case, it will be argued, presents a more ambivalent view of African new cities, showing them not only to be sites of finance speculation, but also of experimental world-making.

Liza Rose Cirolia is an Associate Professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. Her research and teaching focuses on technological transitions, specifically in the context of Africa's urbanization. Her most recent scholarship engages with themes of urban statecraft, speculation, world-making, with a keen focus on finance, planning, and infrastructure. In addition to publishing widely, Liza is a corresponding editor for Urban Studies Journal, Platforms & Society and Finance and Space. She currently teaches two of the core modules for ACC’s Master in Sustainable Urban Practice, an executive program aimed at mid-career urban professionals (Sustainable Urban Infrastructure and City Finance). She is also the co-founder of the UTA-Do African Cities workshop, an annual “summer school” which brings together scholars, artist and activities to advance southern thinking and practice.