About


Architect
Haitham Nabil


Work Experience


Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Architecture Design Studio
Tokyo, Japan
Architect-candidate

Oct 2014 - Present
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Architecture and Urban Studies | DAStU
Measure and Scale of the Contemporary City Laboratory
Prof. Antonella Contin | Prof. Pedro Ortiz | Prof. Grahame Shane | Prof. Edwall
Milano, Italia
Freelancer Architect
Teaching Assistant
Project
East London | Greenwich
Course: Laboratory of architecture design II
Workshop: Metropolitan Architecture Design Workshop | London | Nov 2014

Apr 2014 - July 2014
KKAA - Kengo Kuma  and Associates
隈研吾建築都市設計事務所
Design Studio
Tokyo, Japan
architecture Intern
Design | Modelling 
Projects
Van Gogh Exhibition | Palazzo Reale | Milano | Oct 2014

Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU)
Measure and Scale of the Contemporary City Laboratory
Prof. Antonella Contin | Prof. Pedro Ortiz | Prof. Grahame Shane
Milano, Italia
Freelancer Architect
Teaching Assistant | Researcher | Organizer| Thesis Co-supervisor
Projects
New York | Cairo | Tehran
Course: Laboratory of architecture design II
Workshop: Metropolitan Architecture Design Workshop | Milano | 2014

Jan 2008 - Sep 2010
Dar Al-Handasah Consultancy
Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) is one of the world’s leading international 
consultancies with five design centers in Beirut, Cairo, London, Pune and, 
Amman and 45 regional operation offices in 30 countries throughout the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Commonwealth of Independent States 
(CIS) countries.
Cairo, Egypt
Architect
Design | Coordinator | Technical drawings | Construction drawings 
Projects
Princess Nour University. Riyad, KSA
El-Bahrain Airport, El Bahrain
Expansion of Al Haram Al Nabawy. Al Madinah, KSA
Jabal Omar Development Project Mekka, KSA
Expansion of Al Haram Al Makki.

Aug 2007 - Nov 2007
MIMAR Engineering Consultancy
Architecture Design Studio
Cairo, Egypt
Architect
Design | Modelling | Drafting

Nov 2007 - Dec 2007
NOUN Engineering Consultancy | Arch. Prof. Nabeel Elhady
Architecture and urban planning Studio
Cairo, Egypt
Architect
Design | Modelling
Project
Moubarak Library Competition, Cairo


Education

Ottobre 2010 - Ottobre 2013
Politecnico di Milano
School of Architecture and Society
International Master Program
2 years
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 1
ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION STUDIO
ARCHITECTURAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLICIES
HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
TOWN PLANNING DESIGN WORKSHOP
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2

October 2011 - March 2012

Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Faculty of Architecture
Exchange Program ( Erasmus)
Madrid, Spain
1 Semester
MEDIO AMBIENTE Y CAMBIO TECNOLOGICO
AMPLIACION DE PROYECTOS ARQ ||
PROYECTOS URBANOS Y METROPOLITANOS
LA CONSTRUCCION DE LA MIRADA, HISTORIA DE LA FOTOGRAFIA

Master of Science in Architecture

103/110

Graduation Thesis

The Scar City
Desert Organism
English
Prof. Remo Dorigati
Prof. Gian Luca Brunetti
The Project has been selected  by Politecnico di Milano as the best graduation 
project 2012-2014 and to present the School of architecture and Society at 
Archiprix International | ETSAM | Madrid.
World’s best graduation projects 2015
Archiprix International is an international network for young, talented architects, 
urban designers and landscape architects throughout the world. Biennially all 
universities worldwide are invited to select and submit their best graduation project. 
For the 2015 edition Archiprix International received a record number of 351 projects 
from 87 countries. The jury comprised Eduardo Arroyo, architect, urban designer, and 
critic with his own office NO.MAD based in Madrid (Spain); Luis Fernández-Galiano, 
architect and editor of Architectura Viva, Spain's leading architecture magazine’; 
Anupama Kundoo, architect with her own practice in Auroville (India) since 1990; 
Zhenyu Li, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University 
(Shanghai, China); and French landscape architect Catherine Mosbach, co-founder of 
the magazine Pages Paysages and with her own office Mosbach Paysagistes based in 
Paris (France). The jury reviewed all submitted entries at the ETSAM | UPM - Escuela 
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the 
co-organizer of the eighth edition of Archiprix International. The jury nominated 21 
projects for the Hunter Douglas Awards and selected 7 winners out of these nominees.
Where The Scar City  project has been selected with other 20 projects.
Countries such as Egypt must deal with their unique geographical and demographical 
problems to achieve equilibrium between population growth, resources and land use. 
The Egyptian population currently occupies almost five per cent of the land along the 
Nile Valley and the Delta, while the rest is . . .  empty desert. 
Egypt’s lifeblood, the Nile, cannot feed everyone. Moreover, it has recently been under 
attack from upriver countries. The proposal is oriented toward the Egyptian desert 
through three main themes: new cities, water and energy as current and future 
problems and potentials, and a proposal for a future development axis supported 
by new infrastructural settlements, preserving existing oases. Damming the Nile 
may have catastrophic consequences: even a small reduction in the amount of 
water arriving in Egypt could have devastating effects. The river Nile is shared by 
10 countries. The basin represents one of the most complex and sensitive 
hydrological systems in the world. Many countries face two types of growth: 
formally in the shape of new cities, and informally in the shape of sprawl as 
a densification or encroachment on agricultural land. New cities cause many 
problems, but ignorance of the environmental conditions, scarcity of resources, 
and the need to confront current and future problems are the main issues. 
Rethinking the transformation of energy and its revolutionary technologies is 
a constant theme. The integration of such technology as a cultural aspect within 
society might help us imagine the ethics of the future city. Ignoring it might 
squander the potential of renewable energy to deliver social values such as 
independence and efficiency. Sustainable energy farms are becoming our new 
landscape, and must be carefully considered in terms of planning. Accepting the 
idea of integration can lead to future architectural alternatives, which might 
facilitate solving our current problems in a world of scarcity and deformation. 
The project is a stimulating, complete organism based on the incorporation of 
renewable energy plants and new city form: an urbanism that shows the potential 
of an emerging micro-climate. These new cities typologies can be the infrastructure 
of the future development axis – parallel to the Nile Valley – that can preserve 
current communities – the Desert Oases – which are running out of resources.

October 2007 - July 2008

Cairo University
Faculty of Engineering 
Department of Architecture 
1 year
COMPUTER AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
TECHNICAL LANGUAGE AND ENGINEERING REPORT WRITING
STUDIES IN URBAN CULTURE
RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM
STUDIES IN FORM AND SHAPE IN ARCHITECTURE
STUDIES IN REGIONAL AND LOCAL ARCHITECTURE
RESEARCH IN HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT 
RESEARCH IN CONSERVATION, REHABILITATION AND LAND USE DEVELOPMENT
Diploma in Architectural Engineering
Master of Science in Architectural Engineering
71.5%

October 2002 - July 2007

Cairo University 
Faculty of Engineering 
Department of architecture
5 years
Preparatory Year:
MATHEMATICS (1)
PHYSICS (1)
DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY
ENGINEERING DRAWING
CHEMISTRY (1)
MECHANICS (1)
INTRO. TO COMPUTERS AND PROGRAMMING
TECHNICAL LANGUAGE
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY (1)
HISTORY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE
First Year:
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (1.2)
GRAPHIC & VISUAL SKILLS (1.2)

MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS & COMPUTERS

SURVEYING
HISTORY & THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE  (1.2)
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION & MATERIAL (1.2)
THEORY OF STRUCTURES
PROPERTIES AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Second Year:
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (3.4)
URBAN PLANNING (1)
GRAPHIC & VISUAL SKILLS (3)
URBAN DESIGN & HOUSING (1)
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS (3.4)
HISTORY & THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE (3.4)
ENVIRONMENT CONTROL & TECH. INSTALL. (1.2)
REINFORCED CONCRETE AND STEEL STRUCTURE
HUMAN STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE
Third Year: HISTORY & THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE (5)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (5.6)
URBAN DESIGN & HOUSING (2)
URBAN PLANNING (2)
EXECUTION DESIGNS (1.2)
FOUNDATIONS
Fourth Year:
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (7)
EXECUTION DESIGNS (3)
URBAN DESIGN & HOUSING (3)
HISTORY & THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE (6)
URBAN PLANNING (3)
Bachelor of  Architectural Engineering
75.79 %

Graduation Thesis

Rebirth of Cairo
English
Prof. Nabeel El-Hady
Prof. Hisham Bahgat
A Development Project for the Edge of the ancient islamic city.A Point where History, 
Natural border and Slums meet.
Rebirth of Cairo, It was the theme of our research time which is composed of professors 
and 7 student with 7 sites. The sites were selected around Cairo where an urban and 
architectural actions are needed and they have presented variety of urban conflicts, 
ignorant architectural values and critical social issues. the hypothesis is taking these 7 
location into consideration might emerge a evident city scale development. the 
graduation project site was on the edge of the ancient islamic city which was a natural 
barrier by the hill. during the 60's the edge transformed to a highway where it became 
more over an infrastructural barrier. on the other hand such land properties helped in 
creating informal settlers and activities. during the last 5 years from that time it was 
announced as a site for an international competition for a office building. According to 
these urban, architectural and social issues being involved and the contradiction shown 
by the architecture in respect to the context and program proposed by the stakeholder I 
proposed my attempt in defining a master plan and a program that would incorporate 
the various activities taking a place around the site in between squatters, informal 
activities and tourism. A plan where the city ground needs to be relinked and 
infrastructural element to be crossed. A crack could be recovered. An architectural 
proposal was another critical aspect where the element constructed must stay in a 
permanent dialog with the City Citadel presenting a contemporary language of the 
city today. 


Competitions

Archiprix International 2015 | World's Best Graduation Projects

 ETSAM | Madrid
NOMINATION for the Hunter Douglas Awards
In November the jury of the Archiprix International 2015 met at the ETSAM in Madrid. After two intense days of reviewing  Eduardo Arroyo, Luis Fernández Galiano, Anupama Kundoo, Zhenyu Li and Catherine Mosbach nominated 21 projects for an award. 
The winners of the Hunter Douglas Awards will be announced at the Award ceremony in Madrid on May 8th 2015. 
http://www.archiprix.org/2015/index.php?id=153

Sep 2014
Activate14 | Live/Work Micro - Dwelling Competition
Chapel Hill | North Carolina
Group Work
Award*
Honorable Mention

Feb 2014
D3 Housing Competition 2014 | International Competition
“Infrastructural Housing”
New York, USA
Award*
Individual work | 4th Position | Special Mention


Workshops


April 2015 - May 2015

The Multiplayer City | Middle-Out Urbanism
Archiprix International | ETSAM | HunterDouglas 
Prof. Luis Basabe Montalvo
Madrid, Spain
Participant | representative of Politecnico di Milano
Under the title "THE MULTI PLAYER CITY", we have developed a really serious urban
game to describe the urban transformation of the former Fuencarral-B Settlement in
northern Madrid. Fuencarropoly has proofed to be a great alternative to the
conventional urban planning and urban design tools, as it focuses the city as a
negotiation rather than as a mere design.

September 2014 - October 2014

Reforming Milano | Miaw 2014 | Architecture international workshop
Politecnico di Milano 
Guests
Prof.  jon michael schwarting AIA
Prof. giovanni santamaria
Host
Prof. Antonella Contin
Milano, Italy
Tutor | organizer
The project Re- forming Milan is the involvement of a large number of teachers and
students of the School in the study and design explorations relating to areas and
buildings abandoned or in a state of decay located in central and eastern sector of the
city. The workshop Area of formers Rubattino Barracks, a large quadrangle enclosed, of
future disposal in a context of residential and mixed-use part of the city.

January 2014

Metropolitan Architecture Design Workshop
Politecnico di Milano
Department of architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU)
MSLab - Laboratorio Misura e Scala della Città Contemporanea
Prof. Antonella Contin
Prof. Grahame Shane
Prof. Pedro Ortiz
Milano, Italy
Tutor | Organizer
The general question is about the project of the void inside metropolitan city, aiming at
defining a project proposal for the Metropolitan Architecture: new resilient metropolitan
typologies for the metropolitan city. Each of them could be defined through a name/keywords :
1) The edge in between formal and informal (Cairo)
2) The dismissed infrastructure (airport) in the middle of the city (Teheran)
3) The metropolitan landscape through a dismissed industrial area (NY)
Themes : Mobility. Metropolitan spatial strategy | Urban agriculture: feeding growth | Energy and
sustainable infrastructure | New building typologies: between informal and formal |
Climate change. Natural hazard.

March 2013

Technology for Society | International Workshop
Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italia
Participant
On the occasion of 150th anniversary of Politecnico di Milano, a selection of students
coming from diverse backgrounds  -architecture, design, and engineering- will gather to
reflect collectively on the role of technology as a vital contributor to people’s
opportunities to enhance their quality of life, with a focus of attention on world’s
underprivileged. Presentations and debates will be aimed at simultaneously exploring
and articulating the social, political, economic and environmental aspects of
technological innovation and inventiveness in the transition from poverty to prosperity.

April 2012

Edgelands and Urban Agriculture | International Workshop
AEDES network campus | Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Corinna Morandi
Prof. Fabrizio Leoni
Berlin, Germany
Participant
The theme of the Workshop combines two topics that are emerging as important issues
of the contemporary urban condition and urban economy: edgelands, spaces between
the urban and the rural which don’t have a fixed destination and shape, and urban
agriculture, an activity integrated into - and interacting with - the urban economic and
ecological system. The emerging of themes, focused on a new consideration of the role
of the spaces in-between the urban and the rural, and on the relationship of city and
agriculture or of production and consumption and leisure, have drawn the attention of
planning and urban and landscape design to a specific typology of “urban agriculture”,
which plays economic, spatial, ecological and social roles. Berlin as a case study.

October 2011

Energy and speed in rehabilitation of future cities
Pilas Alcalaínas Workshop
Universidad de Alcala (UAH)
Madrid, Spain
Participant
Five days of activity inside and outside the ETSAG, combining work in workshops,
intervening in the town of Alcala de Henares, with the participation of national and
international guests. The aim: to reflect on urban rehabilitation.
Themes: Origami City and Urban planning | Project Brico | Bionic Energy | Urban
Landscape | Urban Documentation.

Settembre 2011

MIAW 2/forest | Contemprary City and Forests | International Workshop
Politecnico di Milano
Arch. Duilio Forte
Milan, Italy
Participant
The inspirational subject of the second edition of the Milan International Architectural
Workshop is ‘forests’. The green forests are the allegory that drives the outlines of this
programme, devoted to analyze and to find sustainable solutions for living in a
metropolis. Let’s take forests as a metaphor: we want to explore the unknown and to
experiment new ways to live the contemporary city learning from forests. We want to
take this world ‘outside’ and make it, finally, part of our life. 

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