Jawad Elhusuni

Biography

Jawad is an architect and lecturer who is interested in the juncture between architecture, art, history and place. Born in Benghazi, Libya in the 1980s, and where he is now based, he studied architecture in London in the early 2000s at the prestigious Bartlett School of Architecture and Westminster University. There, he first became interested in alternative modes of conceiving architecture, using the histories of Early Modernism and the specificities of place as references and muses. He is particularly interested in the architecture of the Islamic world and the ephemeral ways in which it is conceived, in contrast to many Western Architectural traditions. Post-colonial discourse also features heavily in both his designs and teaching.

Elhusuni has practiced architecture in New York, London, Ireland, Dubai and Bahrain as well as his native Libya. He is currently working on several projects in Libya, Dubai and London, as well as teaching architecture at the Libyan International University in Benghazi.