Dean, School of Architecture & Design, Lebanese American University (2012 until now)
BIO
Elie Haddad is a Professor of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, where he has been teaching since 1994. He is currently the dean of the School of Architecture & Design since 2012. Besides his administrative duties, Haddad was actively engaged in research, with several publications to his credit. Among his publications is the recent Modern Architecture in a Post Modern Era (Lund Humphries, 2023), the edited collection of essays The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory (Routledge, 2022) and A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, co-edited with David Rifkind (Ashgate, 2014). Haddad received several fellowships to conduct research on modern architecture in Germany, specifically on social housing and the work of Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner, and Hans Scharoun in Berlin, and Ernst May in Frankfurt. He has also has served on a number of national and international juries, among which the jury for the Sheikh Zayed Museum in Abu Dhabi (2007), the Arch-Marathon in Milan (2015) and chaired the jury for the Arab Architects Awards, held for the first time in Beirut (2018). Haddad has been also elected to the position of President of the Association of Arab Architects (2020-2023)
