Community Architecture
Dr. Mervat El-Shafie
Dr. Mervat El-Shafie, Assistant Professor of Architecture, is the Chair of the Architecture Department in the College of Engineering, Effat University. Dr El-Shafie received her Ph.D. in Built-Environment from Lincoln University, New Zealand in 1999. Her thesis entitled “Phenomenology of Built-Environment” deals with the interrelationships between people and their land, houses and places and how this is being affected by the processes of Modernization and Globalization. Dr Mervat is a registered architect, Practicing in the field of Architecture and Urban Design more than 30 years, and she has taught Architecture in New Zealand, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia between 1997- 2012. She currently teaches courses in Architecture Design, Landscape Architecture and Research Methods at Effat University. Her research interests include Architecture studies in relation to philosophy, culture and identity; in addition to research on architecture pedagogy and curriculum development.
Dr. Noha Mahmoud
Dr. Noha Mahmoud is an assistant professor of urban and landscape planning studies at Architecture Department, Effat University, Saudi Arabia. She got her PhD and MPhill in Landscape Department at The University of Sheffield, UK in 2011. Dr. Noha thesis entitled “Green Infrastructure in Middle Eastern Environment: promoting social-ecological connectivity in Greater Cairo”. It focuses on large scale landscape changes affecting the arid zones in the Middle Eastern countries, such as those associated with long and blue corridors, connectivity between existing and new settlements and protected zones. Dr. Noha’s research focuses on cultural landscapes – where past, present and future values derive from close associations between people and land by the connectivity through Making The Connectivity by landscape and urban corridors and the Concept of Stepping Stone Action Areas as a way that produces landscapes of ecological and cultural value. Dr. Noha taught
Dr. Mervat El-Shafie, Assistant Professor of Architecture, is the Chair of the Architecture Department in the College of Engineering, Effat University. Dr El-Shafie received her Ph.D. in Built-Environment from Lincoln University, New Zealand in 1999. Her thesis entitled “Phenomenology of Built-Environment” deals with the interrelationships between people and their land, houses and places and how this is being affected by the processes of Modernization and Globalization. Dr Mervat is a registered architect, Practicing in the field of Architecture and Urban Design more than 30 years, and she has taught Architecture in New Zealand, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia between 1997- 2012. She currently teaches courses in Architecture Design, Landscape Architecture and Research Methods at Effat University. Her research interests include Architecture studies in relation to philosophy, culture and identity; in addition to research on architecture pedagogy and curriculum development.
Dr. Noha Mahmoud
Dr. Noha Mahmoud is an assistant professor of urban and landscape planning studies at Architecture Department, Effat University, Saudi Arabia. She got her PhD and MPhill in Landscape Department at The University of Sheffield, UK in 2011. Dr. Noha thesis entitled “Green Infrastructure in Middle Eastern Environment: promoting social-ecological connectivity in Greater Cairo”. It focuses on large scale landscape changes affecting the arid zones in the Middle Eastern countries, such as those associated with long and blue corridors, connectivity between existing and new settlements and protected zones. Dr. Noha’s research focuses on cultural landscapes – where past, present and future values derive from close associations between people and land by the connectivity through Making The Connectivity by landscape and urban corridors and the Concept of Stepping Stone Action Areas as a way that produces landscapes of ecological and cultural value. Dr. Noha taught