Since August 4th blast, many online events, talks, panels, webinars, conferences, workshops and symposiums have been organized to take us through the many changes and roadmaps this country is going through. We have compiled a comprehensive list of what have been published so far, however, it is very possible this list dismissed some events, so feel free to share this and add whatever you feel could have been forgotten.
Read MoreBeirut-Rotterdam: Complex Urban Recoveries
IESR was pleased to host this webinar as part of the collaboration between both TU Delft and LAU’s Institute for Environmental Studies and Research [IESR]. This webinar adressed the topics of reconstruction, urban planning, and heritage, connecting the Rotterdam experience with the current situation in Beirut. Within the framework of Complex Projects at TU Delft, and in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies and Research at LAU, the master’s level studio will address Beirut’s multiple acute challenges, notably its protracted socio-economic crisis, the reconstruction of Beirut and the restoration of its heritage.
On Rotterdam: The Empty Center. Kees Kaan, Founding partner KAAN Architecten, Chair of the Department of Architecture at TU Delft
Beirut, Post-disaster City. Maroun Daccache, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at LAU
On Beirut: The Forgotten Port. Vincent Panhuysen, Partner KAAN Architecten
On Beirut Studio: The Change. Hrvoje Smidihen, Architect at KAAN Architecten, Lecturer at TU Delft
This webinar was moderated by David Aouad
Book Chapter Publication: Urban Overheating
Pleased to be part of this recent book by Mattheos Santamouris and Michele Zinzi (Eds.) Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications, pp. 325-340. This book is out recently following the publication in the peer reviewed Climate Journal by Aouad D., Kaloustian N. “Leftover Spaces for the Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands in Municipal Beirut”.
Book Chapter Publication: Architecture 2050
Pleased to be part of this recent book ”Architecture 2050, Chilean, Lebanese and Polish perspective”, published by the Cracow University of Technology Press. Aouad’s contribution , “For a strategy of regeneration and urban heat mitigation - Beirut’s riverside forsaken agricultural and industrial heritage: The case study of Mkalles industrial area”, was presented during his lecture at the Cracow University of Technology back in January 2020.