EDUCATION

• 1992 Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Architecture Ph.D. Program in Theory and History
  
  Dissertation: "The Column in the Mirror of Medusa: The Question of the Symbolic Origin in Viel de Saint-Maux's Lettres sur l'architecture"
  Committee Members: Joseph Rykwert, David Leatherbarrow, and Marco Frascari
• 1974 Master of Architecture, National University of Iran

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2006– Fall Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
• 1998 – present Adjunct Professor, Drexel University
• 2006–Spring Visiting Associate Professor, Penn State University
• 2005– Fall Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
• 2004–Spring Visiting Professor, Lebanese American University
• 2003–Spring Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt Institute
• 2001– 2002 Visiting Professor, Lebanese American University
• 1999 – 2000 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
• 1999 – Fall Visiting Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
• 1993 –1998 Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 1988–1992 Instructor, Georgia Institute of Technology

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

• Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, co-editor, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

Book Chapter:

• "'…The Gift of Time': Le Corbusier Reading Bataille," Chapter 9, in Surrealism and Architecture, edited by Thomas Mical, Routledge Press, 2005.

Articles:

• "The Porous City," http://www.worldviewcities.org/beirut/main.html , The Architectural League of New York Series on World View Cities, 2005.
• "Architecture under the Gaze of Photography: Benjamin's Actuality and Consequences," in Architectural Theory Review (Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sidney), vol. 10, no. 1, 2005
• "Building in Memento Mori: Theses on the Photography of Architecture," in Built Environment, Special Issue on "Crossing Boundaries: Architecture and the Influence of other Disciplines," Volume 31, No. 1, March 2005.
• "Une Architecture Autre: Architecture in a Time of Terror," in Architectural Theory Review (Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sidney), Vol.9, no. 2, 2004.
• "The City in the Traumatic Scene of Modernity," in Architectural Theory Review (University of Sidney), Vol.7, no. 1, 2002.
• "Void and Memory: The Architecture of Libeskind in Berlin," in Building as a Political Act, Proceeding of 1997 ACSA International Conference, Berlin, 1997.
• "The Gift of the Open Hand: Le Corbusier Reading Georges Bataille's La Part Maudite," in Journal of Architectural Education, September 1996.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2002 ACSA Service Award for distinguished service to the association for the advancement of architectural education, April, 2002.
• 2001 NEH Summer Seminar/Institute Recipient, University of California, Irvine, Seminar on "Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Commodity Fetishism, and the Aesthetics of the City," Summer 2001.
• 1996 Travel and Research Grant, Georgia Tech Foundation (research on Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Extension to the Berlin Museum, Berlin), summer 1996.
• 1993 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (for co- editing the book: Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997).
• 1993 Travel and Research Grant, Georgia Tech Foundation (research at 'Fondation Le Corbusier,' Paris).
• 1991 Research Grant, Georgia Tech Foundation (research at Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).

CONFERENCES, PAPER PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES

• 2006 Conference Coordinator, "What Do Buildings Want? A Return to Radical Contingency in Architectural Inquiry," at Penn State University, 4/2006.
• 2006 "Buildings Want to Be Photographed," presentation at conference on "What Do Buildings Want?"
• 2005 "Rem Koolhaas and the Regime of ¥€$," lecture at Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette, Georgia Tech Program, Paris, 9/2005.
• 2004 "Memory in futur antérieur and the City as the Scene of Writing - Reflections on Berlin," lecture at Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette, Georgia Tech Program, Paris, 10/2004.
• 2002 "Awakening: The Ethics of Traumatic Memory in the Arcades Project," Presented at the International Conference: "Reading Benjamin's Arcades," at King Alfred's College, Winchester, England, 7/2002.
• 2001 "Under the Sign of Transparency: Modernity and the Threshold of Visibility in Contemporary Architecture," public lecture, Lebanese American University, 11/2001.
• 2001 Organizing Coordinator: "Re-Marking Beirut: A Symposium on the City After Modernity", Lebanese American University, 6/2001
• 2001 "Void, Mourning, and Absence: Building Memory in Empty Spaces," public lecture, Lebanese American University, 4/2001
• 2001 "Re-marking: the city of traumatic event," public lecture at the Symposium: Re-Marking Beirut: The City After Modernity, Lebanese American University, 6/2001
• 2001 Chair of the Historiography Session: "History and Ideology," 89th ACSA Annual Conference, Baltimore, 3/2000.
• 2000 "National Identity and the Ethical Function of Tectonic Language:
• Reflection on the Metaphysical Foundation in the Work of Joze Plecnik," Fall 2000, East Central Regional Conference, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 11/ 2000.