About

Faiq Mari is an architect working in the field of architectural design, research, and education with a focus on architecture’s potential as a tool of social and political investigation and action. He is currently a Fulbright scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is continuing his graduate studies in architectural history and theory. His current research is centered on the investigation of the role of the built environment under settler colonialism in Palestine.

Faiq graduated with distinction from the Architectural Engineering program Birzeit University, Palestine, where he subsequently worked as a teaching assistant. At Birzeit, he focused on developing Universal Design education at the Department of Architecture, led applied research on developing localized building techniques in the occupied Jordan Valley of Palestine, and collaborated with fellow faculty on a number of other projects.