• AI4Architect: An Intelligent Help System to Support Students in the Design Domain 

  Abrusci, Luca; Dabaghi, Karma; D’Urso, Stefano; Sciarrone, Filippo (Springer, 2024-03-18)

  Chatbots are important tools for improving learning by assisting students in their daily learning activities. In recent years, Deep Learning techniques have made it possible to train chatbots in increasingly comprehensive ...
• Blended Learning in the Foundational Design Studio 

  Dabaghi, Karma; Abou Arbid, Silia (Springer, 2024-03-18)

  Based on our experience of teaching the first-year Foundation studio online in an architecture program, we highlight the benefits of Blended Learning that incorporates strategic scheduling of physical and virtual delivery ...
• Beyond design thinking and into speculative futures in legal design 

  Dabaghi, Karma (Design Research Society, 2024-03-18)

  The Legal Design movement has succeeded in proposing change to communities through collaboration between the legal and design professions. As a result, new kinds of empathetic solutions have been introduced where the citizen ...
• Designerly resistance: Professional object design in support of Lebanon’s street protests 

  Dabaghi, Karma (2024-03-18)

  Design activism theory calls on designers to take responsibility for using their design skills to make real social change though influencing the mindset of their audience. This paper discusses the specific case of architect ...
• The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019 

  Nachabe Taan, Yasmine (2023-10-30)

  On 17 October 2019 in Beirut, a Lebanese state bodyguard confronted by demonstrators opened fire when a female protestor hit him with a side kick. Another protestor recorded this moment on his mobile phone. A single frame ...
• Visual thinking 

  Srouji, Hanibal Charles (2022-08-11)

  In Art Education, reading and understanding artworks and designs through a direct process of structural analysis improve visual thinking and performance, especially at the foundation level. This paper examines ways in which ...
• A Methodology of teaching fundamentals of art and design 

  Srouji, Hanibal (2022-08-11)

  The focus of this paper is to present a methodology of teaching fundamentals of Art & Design course base on analysis of artworks, mainly paintings, aimed at supporting art & design teaching practice at the foundation year ...
• Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait 

  Mazzetto, Silvia; El-Khoury, Roula (2020-12-08)

  Purpose By looking at a selection of iconic modern projects designed by or commissioned to the prominent but not well-examined architect Sami Abdul Baki both in Lebanon and Kuwait during his most productive years in the ...
• Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait 

  Mazzetto, Silvia; El-Khoury, Roula (2020-07-14)

  Purpose By looking at a selection of iconic modern projects designed by or commissioned to the prominent but not well-examined architect Sami Abdul Baki both in Lebanon and Kuwait during his most productive years in the ...
• Immersive Experiences as the Condition of Possibility for Affective Spacing 

  Akoury, Chahid (2020-05-01)
• Relational Perception and the Discoverability of the Thing-In-Itself 

  Akoury, Chahid (2020-04-29)
• Apprehending the Creative Process through Drawing in the Foundation Design Studio 

  Akoury, Chahid (2018-09-04)

  One of the main goals of design education is to enhance and enable creative thinking. Therefore, effectively teaching visual representational and interpretational skills is vital for the communication and articulation of ...
• Perceptive destabilizations 

  Akoury, Chahid (2018-09-04)

  Contemporary sensory reality has been dominated by the sole sense of vision. This has largely affected the design process and eventually the relationship between designer and the work. This dominance of the image creates ...
• Territory, city and architecture 

  El-Daccache, Maroun (2017-06-14)

  It seems like all the architectural debates are finished as nobody cares for the “old” problems like people or lodgings. Architecture today means publicity and its beauty follows is the subject to the same conditions. The ...
• Learning from Beirut 

  Haddad, Elie G. (2017-06-14)

  his paper will discuss the developments in architecture in Lebanon in the second half of the Twentieth century. Lebanon presents one of the interesting ‘laboratories’ of the different tendencies and movements of this ...
• The Mediterranean City Between Myth and Reality 

  Haddad, Elie; Daccache, Maroun; Romanos, Antoine; Mawlawi, Ziad; Awabdy, Rima (Lebanese American University, 2017-06-13)
• Theoretical speculations and the design studio 

  Haddad, Elie G. (The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, 2017-06-13)
• A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 

  Haddad, Elie G.; Rifkind, David (Ashgate, 2017-06-13)
• On Henry van de Velde's Manuscript on Ornament 

  Haddad, Elie G. (2017-06-13)
• In Nietzsche's Shadow 

  Haddad, Elie (2017-06-12)

  Henry van de Velde's intellectual relation to Nietzsche constitutes one of the interesting episodes in the early developments of Modernism in architecture. On the basic level, it opens the question of the influence of a ...

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