Aziza Chaouni
Aziza Chaouni is a Moroccan architect who teaches at the University of Toronto.
Aziza Chaouni
- Name
- Aziza Chaouni
- Known for
- Architecture
- Born
- 1977 · Fez.
- Nationality
- Morocco
- Occupation
- architect · university teacher
- Education
- Columbia University · Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Honours
- TED Fellow
- Languages
- Arabic · Berber · English
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Aziza Chaouni studied at Columbia University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. The recorded working language is Arabic, Berber and English. The field of work recorded is architecture. Employment is recorded with University of Toronto. Distinctions recorded are TED Fellow.
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Aziza Chaouni is described as an architect in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Aziza Chaouni • Birth Name — Aziza Chaouni • Known for — Architecture
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She is the founder of Aziza Chaouni Projects and associate professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design in Toronto. She leads Designing Ecological Tourism (DET), "a collaborative research platform that investigates the challenges faced by ecotourism in the developing world." Chaouni has a postgraduate degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Columbia University. Starting in 2009 she led a project to rehabilitate the Fez River in her hometown of Fez, Morocco, as part of a larger restoration effort in the area which lasted several years and required engineering and architectural expertise. In 2014 she gave a TED talk on this project. In 2016 she helped to renovate the oldest functioning library in the world, the library at al-Qarawiyyin University, built in 859 by Fatima Al-Fihria. She was also in charge of the restoration of Jean-François Zevaco's brutalist Sidi Harazem Bath Complex, leading a team of architects, engineers, researchers and photographers.
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1977
Aziza Chaouni was born on 26 June 1977.
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- 1.University of Toronto. Aziza Chaouni.
- 2.Revitalization of the Fez River: A Reclaimed Public Space Smart Cities Dive. www.smartcitiesdive.com.
- 3.Morocco.com The Rejuvenation of the Fez River. www.morocco.com.
- 4.TED. Aziza Chaouni, Architect + ecotourism specialist. TED.com.
- 5.Lewis, Danny. The World's Oldest Working Library Will Soon Open Its Doors to the Public. Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian. 13 July 2016.
- 6.Lange, Alexandra. Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco. The New York Times. 2019-10-01. 0362-4331.
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