Marwa Al-Sabouni is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Marwa Al-Sabouni as Syrian architect.
Marwa Al-Sabouni was born at Homs in 1981. Her recorded nationality is Syria.
Contemporary practice is global, computational and preoccupied with energy: the profession's central question is now what a building costs the climate.
She is recorded as architect and writer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: BBC 100 Women.
That the work was built in Syria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Marwa Al-Sabouni is still practising, and the body of work is not yet complete.
Achievements
- BBC 100 Women
