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Yara Sharif

Yara Sharif is a Senior Lecturer at the university of Westminster and a practitioner with an interest in design as a mean to facilitate and empower “forgotten” communities, while also interrogating the relationship between politics and architecture.

Based in London at NG Architects and leading a design studio at the University of Westminster, she co-founded the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), a research collective focused on speculative and practical projects that address spatial possibilities in fragmented landscapes.

Her contributions have garnered multiple awards, including the RIBA President’s Award for Research in 2016 in the “Cities and Communities” category. Sharif's doctoral research, later published as a book titled Architecture of Resistance (Routledge, 2017), won the RIBA President’s Award for Research for Outstanding PhD by Design Thesis in 2013.

Currently, Sharif is involved in research focused on self-build and the reconstruction of Gaza, in partnership with Nasser Golzari. Together, they co-founded Architects for Gaza (AFG), a platform dedicated to fostering hope by providing insights for reconstruction and education aimed at rebuilding Gaza.

“Working with the Ruins”

Interview with Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif of Architects for Gaza
by
- David Cross
- Nasser Golzari
- Yara Sharif
Co-founded in November 2023 by Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, Architects for Gaza responds to the destruction of Gaza through architecture, urbanism, and spatial practices based on justice. Here, Architects for Gaza show why centring the people of…

“Working with the Ruins”

Interview with Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif of Architects for Gaza