He has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Abu Dhabi University in the UAE as an Assistant Professor of Architecture. Currently, Mr. Araji is Co-Chair for the Environmental Design Studios at the University of Manitoba.
As a practitioner, Mohamad T. Araji has worked at leading architecture firms in the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. His practice in Chicago involves several projects at the award winning Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, including: the Chicago DeCarbonization Plan, the Masdar Headquarters and the world’s tallest skyscraper Kingdom Tower. Mohamad’s work includes other international projects (China, South Korea, Malaysia) that apply innovative technologies to form high performance, energy-efficient, sustainable architecture meeting optimal ecological solutions.
Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Werner Lang, the chair of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building (www.enpb.bgu.tum.de) will host the visiting professor. Just recently, Mr. Araji was additionally invited to join the Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich in 2014 as a visiting fellow. Fellows give significant contributions to the residents of the Forum (mainly TUM students of architecture and civil engineering) by giving talks and running workshops. Araji will give them new insights into cutting edge research on environmental technologies at North American universities.
During his stay in Munich, Mohamad T. Araji will hold public lectures, a “Materials, Structures and Assemblies” course and participate as a co-teacher in design studios in Architecture M.A., Energy-efficient and Sustainable Building M.Sc. and ClimaDesign M.Sc..
The TUM Centre for Sustainable Building (www.znb.mse.tum.de) will take advantage of this visiting professor by developing joint research proposals of University of Manitoba /TUM.
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