EL HADI JAZAIRY El Hadi Jazairy Is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [email protected] www.design-earth.org

EL HADI JAZAIRY El Hadi Jazairy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is a licensed architect and a founding partner of Design Earth, a collaborative practice engaged in the relationships between geography and design. His research investigates spaces of exception as predominant forms of contemporary urbanization. El Hadi holds a Doctorate of Design from Harvard University, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from La Cambre in Brussels. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, El Hadi was a Lecturer in Architecture at MIT and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD. He is a founding editor of the journal New Geographies (NG) and editor-in-chief of NG4: Scales of the Earth. Some of his recent work has been published in the Journal of Cultural Geography, MONU and the Journal of Architectural Education.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Architecture (Tenure-Track) 2011-Present University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Lecturer in Architecture 2010-2011 MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Planning and Design 2010-2011 Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Teaching Fellow 2008-2010 Harvard University Graduate School of Design

EDUCATION Doctor of Design (D.Des.) 2010 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Dissertation: Dubai’s Mega Islands: Satellite Vision-Based Production of Space. Committee: Hashim Sarkis, Antoine Picon and Frédéric Pousin

Master of Architecture (M. Arch II.) 2007 Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning Thesis: Sahara Drive, Rest and Walk: An Interactive Journey into a Polarized Territory Committee: John Zissovici and Marilyn Rivchin

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) 1999 Institut Supérieur d’Architecture La Cambre, Brussels Thesis: Ecolonia: A Manifesto of Architecture and Urbanism? Committee: Pierre Blondel, Jacques Aaron and Lucien Kroll

1 RESEARCH Research on the City, University of Michigan 2011-2012 Geographies of Trash (w/R. Ghosn & S. Lee)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2010-2011 School for Year 2030 (w/H. Sarkis & H. Spence) The Exemplar Community – Oranger in Haiti (w/H. Sarkis)

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2008-2010 Dubai’s Mega Islands: Satellite Vision-Based Production of Space

Olive Tjaden Scholar, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell University 2005-2007 Sahara Drive, Rest and Walk: An Interactive Journey into a Polarized Territory

PUBLICATIONS Books Jazairy, E. (ed.), New Geographies #4: Scales of the Earth (Cambridge: Harvard GSD, 2010).

Reviews of Scales of the Earth Pacheco, Mauricio Quiros, New Geographies 4 Review, Domus, April 2012. Sandoval, Omar Olivares, Reseña de "New Geographies 4. Scales of the Earth" Investigaciones Geograficas #78, 2012.

Articles Jazairy, E. and Ghosn, R., Hassi Messaoud Oil Urbanism, New Geographies #6: Grounding Metabolism (Cambridge, Harvard GSD, 2014).

Jazairy, E. and Ghosn, R., A Geographic Stroll Around the Horizon, Magazine on Urbanism #20: Geographic Urbanism (Rotterdam, 2014): 12-17.

Jazairy, E. and Ghosn, R., Geographies of Trash, Journal of Architectural Education #68-1 (Washington DC, 2014): 68-81.

Jazairy, E. and Ghosn, R. Geographies of Trash, ACSA 102: Globalizing Architecture: Flows and Disruptions (2014).

Jazairy, E. and Ghosn, R. Burn it, Bury it, or Send it on a Caribbean Cruise, ACSA 101: New Constellations, New Ecologies (2013): 16-18.

Jazairy, E. Aerial Vision Based Model of Urbanism, ACSA 100: Digital Aptitudes (2012): 638-647.

Jazairy, E. School for Year 2030, GSD Platform 4 (New York, Harvard GSD, 20011): 354-355.

Jazairy, E. Toward a Plastic Conception of Scale, New Geographies #4: Scales of the Earth (Cambridge: Harvard GSD, 2010).

Jazairy, E. From Cyberspace to The World: The Impact of Google Earth and Second Life on Dubai, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography #7 (2011): 97-107.

Jazairy, E. Cinematic Landscapes in Antonioni’s L’Avventura, Journal of Cultural Geography #26-3 (2009): 351-369.

Jazairy, E. The Sahara of Oil, Gas, and Sun, New Geographies #2: Landscapes of Energy (Cambridge: Harvard GSD, 2009): 51-58.

Jazairy, E. Advancing the Strategostructure, GSD Platform 2 (New York, Harvard GSD, 2009): 222-227.

2 Jazairy, E. Terraforming Artificial Territories in the Gulf, SHOT2009 (Pittsburg, 2009): 15-18.

Jazairy, E. Dubai Archipelago from Above: The Aerial Vision-Based Model of Urbanism, Urbanism and Urbanization (Leuven, 2009): 467-474.

Jazairy, E. Imaging Dubai’s Palm Islands: The Construction of Land and Representation through the Satellite View, Topos, International Review of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design #66 (2009): 46-51.

Jazairy, E. Ghosn, R., Ramos S. The Space of Controversies: An Interview with Bruno Latour, New Geographies 0 (Cambridge: Harvard GSD, 2008): 122-135.

Jazairy, E. Sahara Drive, Rest and Walk: An Interactive Journey into a Polarized Territory (Cornell University, 2007): 1-80.

Jazairy, E. and de Geyter X. Building in Negative Space, El Croquis #126 (Madrid, 2005): 1-165. Jazairy, E. Project Leader for the Following Projects: St. Lucas Fine Arts School, Hotel and Catering School, Brussels and EPFL Learning Centre, Lausanne.

Jazairy, E. and de Geyter X. St Lucas Fine Arts School, A+U February 2005 Issue #413: New University Environments (2005): 122-126.

Jazairy, E. Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art is ‘Gorges’ too, The Ithaca Journal, Aug. 17, 2005.

Jazairy, E. Johnson Museum is Gorges, The Ithaca Times, Aug. 8, 2005.

Jazairy, E., de Geyter, X., Beerten, J. Change: Brussels Capital of Europe (Brussels: Prism Edition, 2004): 170-185.

Jazairy, E., Detry, A., Schmitz, D. Keutgen, L. A Human Scale Entity, EUROPAN 6 In Between Cities, Second Best Award (Brussels, 2001): 42-44.

Jazairy, E. Ecolonia: A Manifesto of Architecture and Urbanism? Architecture Thesis (Brussels, La Cambre, 1999): 1-80.

CONFERENCES ACSA 102th Annual Meeting: Globalizing Architecture: Flows and Disruptions, Miami April 2014 Faculty Design Awards Special Focus Session: Geographies of Trash

ACSA 100th Annual Meeting: Digital Aptitudes, Boston March 2012 Registration and Projection: Satellite Vision-Based Production of Space

Death and Life of Social Factors Conference, UC-Berkeley April 2011 The Geographical Imagination: Cinematic Landscapes

Society for History of Technology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh October 2009 Terraforming Artificial Territories in the Gulf

K.U. Leuven Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, Leuven October 2009 5th International PhD Seminar on Urbanism and Urbanization The Aerial Vision-Based Model of Urbanism

INVITED LECTURES Harvard University Graduate School of Design March 2014 The Spaces Between Development and Conservation – Geographies (Old and New) Design Earth (w/R. Ghosn)

Harvard University Graduate School of Design February 2014 Urban Design Symposium : The Form of the Territory

Direction de la Ville Nouvelle de Hassi Messaoud, Algiers, Algeria January 2014 Will Hassi Messaoud Survive the End of Oil ?

Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Tetouan, Tetouan, Morocco June 2013 Mediterranean Projects

Qatar Museum Authority, Doha, Qatar February 2012 New National Museum of Doha - Beyond Iconic Landform

Archiprix 2011, MIT May 2011 Infrastructure and Geography (w/R. Ghosn)

ETH Zurich December Symposium, Switzerland December 2010 Dubai Mega Islands: Satellite Vision-Based Production of Space

College of Architecture, Art & Planning Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca May 2007 Sahara Drive, Rest and Walk: An Interactive Journey into a Polarized Territory

Direction de la Prospective et des Études d’Urbanisme de la Principauté de Monaco February 2003 Diagnostic Study for the New Urban Planning Reference Scheme of Monaco Coastline

EUROPAN 6 International Projects Conference, Liège December 2001 Human Scale (w/A. Detry, D. Schmitz, L. Keutgen)

PANELS ORGANIZED Taubman College & Ross School of Business Symposium, Ann Arbor March 2014 Panel Moderator: Urban Development Now, Catalyzing Urban Development

ACSA 101th Annual Meeting: New Constellations New Ecologies, San Francisco March 2013 Panel Organizer: Waste Lands and Material Economies Burn it, Burry it or Send it on a Caribbean Cruise

ACSA 100th Annual Meeting: Digital Aptitudes, Boston March 2012 Panel Chair: Registration and Projection: The mediation of Urban imaging technologies

Van Alen Institute, New York November 2011 Book Talk: New Geographies #3+4 (w/H. Sarkis, G. Doherty, L. Bulman)

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge April 2011 Book Talk: New Geographies #4 (w/H. Sarkis, A. D’Hooghe, P. Anker)

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge April 2008 Round table Discussion: New Geographies #0 (w/H. Sarkis, M. Motafavi, A. Picon, C. Waldheim, G. Doherty, R. Ghosn, A. Petrov, S. Ramos, N. Turan)

4 AWARDS AND GRANTS International Institute - Experiential Learning Fund for Mumbai Docklands, $10,000 2014 International Institute - Experiential Learning Fund for Campus Rio, $10,000 2013 UM Taubman College Research on the City Dissemination Fund for Geographies of Trash, $3,000 2012 UM Taubman College Research on the City Grant for Geographies of Trash, $20,000 2011 Graham Foundation Grant for New Geographies #5+6, $15,000 2011 Harvard GSD Aga Khan Program Grant for New Geographies #4, $15,000 2010 Harvard Graduate School of Design Postdoctoral Fellowship, $50,000 2010-2011 Graham Foundation Grant for New Geographies #1+2, $15,000 2009 Harvard Center for the Environment Grant for New Geographies #2, $2,000 2009 Harvard GSD Aga Khan Program Grant for New Geographies #2, $5,000 2009 Harvard Graduate School of Design Tuition Scholarship, $60,000 2007-2010 Cornell University Olive Tjaden Tuition Scholarship, $55,000 2005-2007

EXHIBITIONS University of Michigan North Quad Exhibition Space 2013 Travel Course Exhibition: Greetings from Gibraltar (w/R. Ghosn)

University of Michigan Liberty Research Annex Gallery 2012 Research on the City: Geographies of Trash (w/R. Ghosn)

Bab Al Bahrain Square, Manama, Bahrain 2012 Bab Al Bahrain Competition: The Horizon (w/R. Ghosn)

Harvard GSD 2011 Dispatches from the GSD - 75 Years of Design: New Geographies

Venice Biennale XII 2010 Albanian Pavilion: New Geographies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Founding Partner at Design Earth, Cambridge MA / Ann Arbor MI 2010-Present Refuge 20N92E: Between the Roof of the World and the Mouth of the Ganges, Bangladesh – Competition 2014 Proposed an Urban Vision for the Sea Level Rise Jacques Rougerie Foundation

The Atmosphere is Dead, Long Live the Atmosphere, Beijing – Competition 2014 Proposed an Urban Vision for Cityvision Magazine Issue 9

Sunset in the Stratosphere, Beijing – Competition 2014 Proposed an Urban Vision for Cityvision Magazine Issue 9

Cloud Culture City Project, London – Special Mention in the Competition 2014 London Organic Skyscraper Competition

Towers on Wire, Cambodia – Competition 2014 Proposed temporary tower structures for eVolo 2014 Skyscraper Competition

4.7: Geographic Stroll around the Horizon, Rio – Honorable Mention in the Competition 2013 Proposed an Urban Vision for Cityvision Magazine Issue 8 (w/R. Ghosn)

The Belly of a Mountain, Rio - Competition 2013 Proposed an Urban Vision for Cityvision Magazine Issue 8 (w/R. Ghosn)

Cloud Cover, Flint - Flat Lot - Competition 2013 Proposed a temporary structure for the Flint Public Art Projects (w/A. Chaouni, R. Ghosn) 5

The Horizon, Manama - Bab Al Bahrain – Competition 2012 Proposed a public square design to The Ministry of Culture of Bahrain (w/R. Ghosn)

Project Leader, Xaveer de Geyter, Xaveer de Geyter Architects, Brussels 2001-2005 St. Lucas Fine Arts School, Gent - First Prize in the Competition 2003-2005 Designed and constructed a masterplan including a library, a new square, and applied arts studios

Rolex Learning Center, EPFL, Lausanne - Competition 2004 Designed a masterplan and a new Library for the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

COOVI Hotel and Catering School, Brussels - First Prize in the Competition, Constructed 2003 Designed a masterplan for the COOVI Hotel and Catering School

Heerlen Housing, Doordrecht, Netherlands - Competition 2003 Proposed a design for the housing tower of Heerlen

Monaco Masterplan - Study 2002-2003 Elaborated a diagnostic study for the Direction de la Prospective et des Études d’Urbanisme de la Principauté de Monaco with ILEX, Inc.

Hoboken City Hospital, Rotterdam - Study 2002 Designed a 16-ha masterplan for the City Hospital of Hoboken for the Municipality of Rotterdam

Schaerbeek Masterplan, Brussels - Study 2001-2002 Elaborated an urban study for a 100-ha site, location of the second high-speed train station in Brussels for Eurostation Corp.

Sint-Pieters Station, Gent - Study 2001 Elaborated an urban study for a 30-ha site and designed an extension of St-Pieters Station, Gent, Belgium into a high-speed train station for Eurostation Corp.

Xaveer de Geyter: 12 Projects, Desingel, Antwerp – Exhibition 2001 Designed the Xaveer de Geyter: 12 projects, the architect’s first comprehensive exhibition

Louis de Beauvoir, Beauvoir Architects, Brussels 2000 Konkel Housing, Brussels - Constructed, Règle d’Or de l’Urbanisme Award Constructed 150 apartments at Konkel in Brussels, elaborated execution details, site measurements in building yard, established required construction materials supply and drafted the detailed tendering documentation

Elia Zenghelis, Gigantes Zenghelis Architects, Brussels 1999-2000 World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland - Competition Extension of the WIPO, a specialized agency of the United Nations

Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), London 1997 Alebu Construction Material Pathology, Eritrea - Study Established a building ground plan of the Alebu village in Eritrea, Eastern Africa

PRIZES Special Mention for the London Organic Skyscrapers Competition: CCC Project 2014 Winner of the ACSA Faculty Design Award: Geographies of Trash 2014 Honorable Mention for the ULI/Hines Urban Design competition: Flood Harvest, Nashville 2014 Honorable Mention for the Rio CityVision 4.7: Geographic Stroll around the Horizon Competition, Rio 2013 First Prize in the Competition for The Deutsche Bank Exemplar Community, Haiti 2010 6 Règle d’Or de l’Urbanisme Award for the Design of Konkel Housing, Brussels 2004 First Prize in the Competition for the Design of St. Lucas Fine Arts School, Ghent 2003 First Prize in the Competition for the Design of the COOVI Hotel and Catering School, Brussels 2003 Special Selection for the Design of Ephemeral Structures, 2004 Athens Olympic Games Exhibited in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens and the RIBA, London 2003 Second Prize for EUROPAN 6 Liege Human Scale Competition, Belgium 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Michigan Taubman College, Assistant Professor of Architecture 2011-Present UD732: Urban Design Studio: Mumbai Docklands Winter 2014 ARCH552: Graduate Design Studio: Islands of Exception Fall 2013 UD718: Urban Design Required Seminar: Theories and Methods of Urban Design Fall 2013 ARCH409: Travel Studio: Strait of Gibraltar (w/R. Ghosn) Spring 2013 UD732: Urban Design Studio: Campus Rio Winter 2013 ARCH509: Graduate Research Seminar: Scales of the Earth – Mediterranean Projects Winter 2013 ARCH672: Graduate Design Studio: Offshore Monaco Fall 2012 ARCH509: Graduate Research Seminar: Spaces of Exception Fall 2012 ARCH562: Graduate Design Studio: New Aged Collective (w/V. Lee ) Winter 2012 ARCH509: Graduate Research Seminar: Scales of the Earth Winter 2012 ARCH432: Undergraduate Design Studio: Beyond School Detroit Fall 2011

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design 2011 GSD9109: Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030 (w/H. Sarkis ) Spring 2011

MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Lecturer in Architecture 2011 MIT4.360-11.338: Graduate Design Studio: Shrinking Cities: After City Baltimore (w/B. Ryan ) Spring 2011

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Teaching Fellow 2008-2010 GSD-UPD1506: Urban Design Studio: Inside the Pearl River Delta (w/J. Busquets ) Spring 2010 GSD-UPD9201: Urban Design Seminar: Shenzhen Prospective Study (w/J. Busquets ) Fall 2009 GSD-UPD3503: Urban Design Proseminar: Defining Urban Design (w/J. Busquets ) 2009-2008 GSD1311: Graduate Design Studio: Advancing the Strategostructure (w/J. Prince-Ramus ) Spring 2009

Cornell University Department of Architecture, Teaching Assistant 2005-2007 ARCH102-104: Undergraduate Design Studio: Design II (w/P. Anderson & A. Simitch) Spring 2007 ARCH101-103: Undergraduate Design Studio: Design I (w/P. Anderson and A. Simitch ) Fall 2006 ARCH662: Undergraduate Course: Mechanical & Passive Solar Systems (w/N. Rajkovich) Spring 2006 ARCH521: Undergraduate Course: Professional Practice (w/C. MacDougall) Spring 2006 ARCH151: Undergraduate Course: Drawing I (w/A. Ovaska ) Fall 2005

GUEST INSTRUCTOR Mumbai Sir JJ School of Architecture, Mumbai, India: Mumbai Docklands February 2014 Workshop on the Mumbai Eastern Waterfront with MUD+MArch students (w/A. Sambhare, M. Waghdhare)

Mumbai Studio X, Mumbai, India: Mumbai Docklands February 2014 Charette on the Mumbai Eastern Waterfront with Michigan MUD+MArch students and Mumbai BArch students (w/A. Sambhare, R. Thakker)

Taubman College: Introduction to Urban Design September 2013 Introduction to Urban Design to the Physical Planning Workshop class

Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Campus Rio February 2013 Workshop on Post Olympic Urbanization with MUD students (w/G. Duarte)

7 MIT School of Architecture and Planning: Archiprix 2011 One Week workshop on Geographies of Manhattan: The Triborough Bridge (w/R. Ghosn) June 2011

GUEST CRITIC University of Toronto John H. Daniels: T.O. Superstudio Final Reviews (L. Miller) Fall 2013 Ecole Nationale D’Architecture de Tetouan, Morocco: Tetouan Coastline (H. Cherkaoui) Spring 2013 University of Toronto John H. Daniels: Master of Architecture Thesis Final Reviews (J. May) Fall 2012 University of Syracuse School of Architecture: Freshmen Final Reviews (V. Tzen) Fall 2012 University of Toronto John H. Daniels: Master of Architecture Thesis Final Reviews (A. Chaouni) Winter 2012 Harvard GSD, New Geographies: Imagining a World beyond Cosmopolis (H. Sarkis) Spring 2011 Harvard GSD, Studio: Dense and Green MArch Final Reviews (T. Schroepfer ) December 2010 Harvard GSD, Studio: Geographies of a Bridge Final Reviews (H. Sarkis ) October 2010 Wentworth Institute of Technology, Landscape+Environmental Systems+Arch (M. MacPhail) July 2010 University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, Final Reviews (H. Steiner ) March 2010

ACADEMIC SERVICES TCAUP Academic Review, Chair 2013-2014 Master of Urban Design Program, MUD Admissions, Member 2012-2014 Master of Urban Design Program, MUD Advisory, Member 2012-2014 TCAUP PhD in Architecture Advisory, Member 2012-2013 TCAUP Mediterranean Search, Member 2012-2013 TCAUP Academic Review, Member 2012-2013 TCAUP Fellowships Search, Member 2011-2012

PROFESSIONAL LICENSE “National Architectural Accrediting Board,” Belgium, Practicing Architect Fellow Member 1999

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS 12th Cycle of The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Official Nominator 2011-2013 New Geographies Editorial Board, 2008-Present New Geographies Vol. 6: Grounding Metabolism 2014 New Geographies Vol. 5: The Mediterranean 2013 New Geographies Vol. 4: Scales of the Earth, Editor-in-Chief 2011 New Geographies Vol. 3: Urbanisms of Color 2011 New Geographies Vol. 2: Landscapes of Energy 2010 New Geographies Vol. 1: After Zero 2009 New Geographies Vol. 0 2008 New Geographies, Founding Editor 2008 11th Cycle of The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Official Nominator 2008-2010 Johnson Museum of Art Student Advisory Committee, Member 2005-2007 Johnson Museum of Art, Docent 2005-2007