Aouad in Krakow
Invited by the faculty of architecture at the University of Technology in Krakow/Poland, Aouad lectured about the current urban overheating issues in Beirut. His lecture, “Left over spaces for the mitigation of Urban heating in Municipal Beirut”, explained to an audience of students and university faculty, the mitigation tools used today to reduce urban heat island effects in critical areas of Beirut. Within the framework of his visit to Krakow.
Aouad also took part of an evaluation jury for final year graduating architecture students where he exchanged development ideas and future guidelines with presenting students.A publication will soon follow "For a strategy of regeneration and urban heat mitigation-Beirut's riverside forsaken agricultural and industrial heritage"; article to be published within the framework of an international scientific conference organized y the Institute of Design of the Krakow University of Technology.