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             Born Cairo 1987, Ahmed received a 5 year NAAB-accredited Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Sharjah 2009. A Sheikh Khalifa scholarship recipient, Ahmed won several design awards including the young architect award at Cityscape Dubai 2009 and third place at 2A magazine's young architects competition. Other online competition awards include two honourable mentions at Designers’ Workstation 2008 and Infinite Strip 2006. His work has been published in an Autodesk case study, Friday magazine and several competition websites. Collectively, Ahmed has 2 years of internships, freelance and part-time work in Dubai & Abu Dhabi with offices including Aedas, BurtHill, Naga Architects and James Toomey Architects amongst others.

              With 4 years of post-graduate work experience as an Architect, Ahmed has been recently involved with Foster + Partners in Beijing responsible for the cladding and steel structure packages on the Datong Art Museum. Prior to that, he managed a small team as a Project Architect for Playze in Shanghai recycling shipping containers into habitable spaces.

              Ahmed is currently pursuing a Post-Professional Master’s degree in Design Technology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His focus lies on Computational Geometry Interrogation for Fabrication within a file-to-factory research agenda. Recent projects include a Geometry Analysis plugin for Grasshopper, a metal-forming robotic tool and a dynamic smartphone case displaying notifications.

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