In Conversation with Yara Sharif

Musmar, A. and Sharif, Y. 2024. In Conversation with Yara Sharif. Journal of Architectural Education. 78 (1), pp. 10-13.

TitleIn Conversation with Yara Sharif
TypeJournal article
AuthorsMusmar, A. and Sharif, Y.
Abstract

Yara Sharif is a Senior Lecturer and a practitioner with an interest in design as a means to facilitate and empower “forgotten” communities, while also interrogating the relationship between politics and architecture. Combining research with design, her work runs parallel between the architecture practice Golzari-NG Architects and the school of architecture at the University of Westminster. Sharif co-founded Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), which is a design-led research group that aims—through speculative and live projects—to search for creative and responsive spatial possibilities to heal the fractured landscape. Sharif’s work has won a number of awards including the RIBA’s President’s Award for Research 2016 on “Cities and communities” category. Sharif has also contributed to several collaborative projects with Palestinian NGO Riwaq which won the Holcim Commendation Award for Sustainable Construction in the MENA Region 2014—Beit Iksa Eco Kitchen, and The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013 for the Regeneration of Birzeit Historic Centre.

Keywordsarchitecture
contested landscape
colonial
hope
infedilities
JournalJournal of Architectural Education
Journal citation78 (1), pp. 10-13
ISSN1046-4883
1531-314X
Year2024
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Web address (URL)https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2024.2316559
Publication dates
Published25 Mar 2024

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