Invented Landscapes

The Invented landscapes workshop, organized by the American University of Beirut’s Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management department (LDEM) and its Architecture and Design department (ArD), took place in September 2014 at the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, as part of the pavilion’s School of Tomorrow program. Inspired by works of Cedric Price and Lucius Burckhardt, the workshop looked at creating new invented visions for the Lebanese steep terrain, involving formal and conceptual explorations between land and space. Critiquing the mass urban sprawl defacing the natural mountainscape, it considered several prototypical crops of land, taken vertically in section from several regions across the Lebanese mountain chain in the vicinity of Greater Beirut, and modulated in each scenario a new approach to forming, both land and space. The projects were each developed as archival documents, becoming part of the Swiss pavilion’s archive on display.

co-taught with professors Yaser Abunnasr and Nayla Al Akl
Workshop blog: https://inventedlandscapes.wordpress.com/