Profile
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Assistant Professor in Architecture, Department of Architecture College of Architecture, Kuwait University
BIO
Aminah Alkanderi is an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at Kuwait University and a regional fellow at the MEC at UPENN. As an architect, her work explores questions of Arab modernity, translation, desert environment, Gulf oil cities, and local arts and crafts. Her research investigates the role of Arab planner-architects in defining the urban built environment in the post oil Arabian Peninsula and the emerging of a discourse on planning-architecture.
Dr. Alkanderi has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Kuwait University, a master’s degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University, and a doctoral degree in History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
PH.D. DISSERTATION
Saba George Shiber’s Kuwaitopolis and the Emergence of the Arab Urban-Architect
RECENT ARTICLES
- Alkanderi Aminah. “The Emergence of the Arab Engineer: Saba George Shiber, Arab Consulting Engineers (ACE), and Dar Al-Handasah.” Histories of Postwar Architecture; No. 8 (2021): Impatient Cities of the Gulf: Post-Oil Architecture in Flux; 43-68 https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/12152
