German University in Cairo

Instructors

Dr. Husam Riyad Husain

Architecture & Urban Design Department
Email: Husam.husain@guc.edu.eg

Dr. Husam Husain is a Jordanian Architect and Urbanist, holding Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning specialized in coastal territories, urban adaptation, and regeneration strategies. read more

He has worked in various Architectural firms, besides several freelance projects. His academic activities over the past years started in the American University in Northern Cyprus before moving to Cairo in 2018, where he currently holds a position in the Architecture and Urban Design program at the German University in Cairo. These activities were developed in parallel with initiatives of organizing several conferences, seminars, workshops, and research activities in different countries and in cooperation with several institutions. Further, as design-based research always require exposure through multidisciplinary platforms; Husam is currently managing a non-profitable Research-by-Action Urban-Lab in parallel to co-managing a scientific journal, besides his role as an editorial member of several journals, which together aim at widening the urban territorial perspective through several discourses with special focus on urban transformation in the Mediterranean basin; Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Geo-Economic global contexts.

Degrees:

PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning From Girne American University Year 2021
Master degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Girne American University Year 2016/17
Bachelor degree in Architecture from Girne American University Year 2014

Dr. Maha Elgewely

Visual Design & Presentation Department
Email: Maha.elgewely@guc.edu.eg

Maha ElGewely is an Architecture Instructor and researcher at German University in Cairo. She attained her MSc degree on Algorithm Aided Architectural Design from Alexandria University in 2010. read more

She worked, during her PhD on enhancing learning experience and learning outcomes for construction related courses using VR construction sites and gamification of learning materials. Her research interests direct to Computer Aided Design in general and specifically to Virtual Reality in Architecture and Responsive Design. Along with her students, she develops mobile-based VR and AR apps for different Architecture purposes. She has 14 years teaching experience in public and private universities in Egypt including 9 years in GUC.

Degrees:

PhD degree in Building technology and integrated design From GUC Year 2020, Thesis title: BIM - Based Immersive VR Environment for Construction Detailing Education: (BIM - VRConDet)
Master degree in Architecture Engineering from Alexandria University Year 2010
Bachelor degree in Architecture Engineering from Alexandria University Year 2006

Selected Publications:

ElGewely, M., & Nadim, W. (2020). Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Construction Detailing Education Using Building Information Modeling (BIM). In The 10th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management (pp. 101-112). Springer, Singapore.
El gewely, Maha., & Atwa, m. (2016). Responsive urban experience: towards physical livability of urban spaces. City Street 2 Conference, Organising committee at the faculty of architecture, art and design (FAAD), Notre Dame University Louaize (NDU), 75.
El Gewely, M. H. (2010). Algorithm Aided Architectural Design (AAAD), ASCAAD 2010, Fes, Morocco.>

Dr. Walid Mohamed Reda Elshamy

Building Technology Department
Email: Walid.elshamy@guc.edu.eg

Walid Mohamed Reda Elshamy is an Instructor at the Building Technology department at GUC since 2019. Walid graduated from architecture department at Ain Shams University in a dual graduation project between Ain Shams University in Egypt and Clemson University in USA. read more

He finished his master degree about project management in airports. He finished his Ph.D. degree from GUC in 2019 “An integrated business model for PPP in new cities”. He won several awards in architectural competitions in Egypt, KSA and Germany. He is also active in the professional field being involved in many design projects in Egypt, KSA, and Libya. These projects cover a variety of building typologies such as: Sports Club, Library, Training Center, Recreational Complex, Research Facility, Residential Villa, Mall, School, Conference Hall, Pavilion, and Office Buildings.

He participated in different conferences in Spain and Egypt. He was part of organization team for ARUP conference for 2 versions during his study at Ain Shams University. In addition to his role as part of edition committee at AGORA CAUMME 2020. He is interested in architectural design and its relation to construction and building technology systems. He also concerns about project and construction management techniques and its impact upon the architectural profession. He also has a special concerns about the new cities development in Egypt and Africa, focusing of methods and systems evolved for new communities, in addition to smart systems applied in different buildings. He is also concerned with developing old city buildings. His teaching methodology focuses on teaching the students how to understand the philosophy for the different systems or concepts in order to generate an innovative students that can develop further ideas in the future.

Degrees:

Ph.D. degree in Building Technology from German University in Cairo (2014 Year 2019)
Master degree in Architecture & Urban Design from Ain Shams University (2007 Year 2011)
Bachelor degree in Architecture & Urban Design from Ain Shams University (2002 Year 2007)

Selected Publications:

Shamy, W, Meselhy, M., October 2014, “Development for sustainable construction system (rapid walls) in Egypt using nanotechnology”, published in World Sustainable Building 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Shamy, W, Refaat, M., Farouk, A., November 2013, “Evaluation of BOT Airports in Egypt ". Paper Presented in 1ST International Civil Aviation Symposium (ICAS) titled “Investigating Regional Opportunity, Global Sustainability and Innovation in the Civil Aviation Sector”, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Shamy, W., Meselhy, M., Farouk, A., November 2013: "Evaluation of Marsa Alam BOT Airport in Egypt". A paper published in SB13 Cairo, Sustainable Building Conference, Democratic transition and sustainable communities- Fairmont – Egypt.
Shamy, W.,August 2010: "Futuristic view for Build Operate Transfer (BOT) projects in Egypt". Paper published in 2nd International Conference for Construction in Developing Countries- Fairmont – Egypt.

Aliaa Maged Kamal

Building Technology Department
Email: Aliaa.kamal@guc.edu.eg

Aliaa Kamal's teaching experience in GUC and previous teaching experience, 10 years in total; is in a wide spectrum of topics and courses. read more

However, she is more focused on, Building Technology, Architectural drawing and Design especially for foundation years, besides integrated design projects for older students which focus on architectural design aspects and skills integrated with building and realization techniques.

Her research focus, on the other hand is related to architecture and urban design for children, with a special focus on designing their play spaces in a participatory regime.

Degrees:

PhD in Evaluating Design of Outdoor Areas for Children from Cairo University Ongoing
Master degree in Designing Outdoor Areas for Children from Cairo University Year 2014
Bachelor degree in Architecture from Cairo University Year 2010

Selected Publications:

Kamal, A.M. (2019). Building a Child-Developing Play Space in Cairo Through Listening to Children. In R. Danenberg, V. Doumpa, H. Karssenberg (Eds.), The City at the Eye Level for Kids (pp. 92-97). Rotterdam / Amsterdam NL:STIPO.
Kamal, A.M. (2014). Listening to Children: Developing Skills through Play Space Design. Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University. Faculty of Engineering. Department of Architecture. Egyptian Universities libraries Collaboration.
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Ibrahim Samy Sayed Saleh

Architecture & Urban Design Department
Email: Ibrahim.saleh@guc.edu.eg

Ibrahim Saleh has been teaching at GUC since September 2012 (promoted to instructor in 2015). Taught and supervised different courses including Working Drawings, Design Studios, Theory of Urban Planning, Electives, Legislation, Professional Practice and Contracts, and many other courses. read more

During the past ten years, he has been extensively involved in research in the area of Environmental Architecture, Participatory Design and Sustainable Development with focusing on educational buildings’ architecture, community participation, Design Build Architecture, and Users (children) Sociology. Beside his expertise, he is also skilled in Building Analysis and experimental field work. These trends he intended to advance in the future.

His interest in Participatory Architecture research arises from its global burden especially in his country (Egypt) with the existing top down decision making strategies and the arising community initiatives in the informal settlements. His extensive research work in the Participatory Design especially school architecture and children participation incorporates a range of local and international workshops and public lectures mentioned in his resume.

Humans being the most valuable element of design, He would like to devote his research, and his academic career, to investigating participatory related topics form theoretical, empirical and computational stand points. His current research emphasizes on the following hypotheses in part of his greater project School Design PARTICIPATORY TAG™ which aims at:

• Upgrading building efficiency and architectural design by fragmented case analysis and simulation, participatory case studies of Germany, Netherlands, and the Middle East.

• Introducing reverse and passive solutions for upgrading building elements for a better performance.

• Introducing participatory design international regulation code and assessment tool.

Degrees:

PHD candidate in Architecture Engineering at Ain Shams University since 2017 until now (2020).
Master degree in Architectural Engineering, From: Cairo University – Faculty of Engineering – Department of Architecture Engineering, Year: 2015
Bachelor degree in Architectural Engineering with Honor Rank, from: Cairo University – Faculty of Engineering – Department of Architecture Engineering, Year: 2010

Selected Publications:

Fathy, A., Saleh, I. (2020). Modern Residential Towers as A Pedagogical Tool in Architectural Education with Reference To Egypt. IFAU19 – 3rd International Forum for Architecture and Urbanism. Modernization and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage. Paper Proceedings Book/ed. Florian Nepravishta, Andrea Maliqari – Tiranë. ISBN: 978-9928-131-92-8 (e-book PDF).
Saleh, I. (2016). School Design through Participation with Reference to Children in Primary Education. SBE16 - Sustainable Built Environment conference 16 organized by The German University in Cairo (GUC) – Architecture and Urban Design, Egypt and German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK), Egypt.

Meryem Kübra Uluç Tolba

Architecture & Urban Design Department
Email: Meryem.tolba@guc.edu.eg

Meryem Tolba is a Turkish architect and designer holds Master of Science from Bauhaus University- Weimar. Her research interests include user participatory urban development, upgrading the informal settlements, housing in emerging cities, behavioral aspect of architectural design and their expressions beside applicability via using new mediums. read more

She has made her master research on public spaces in informal settlements in Istanbul. The research was supported with a workshop that included several academic parties such as Amsterdam School of Arts, University of Leuven, Istanbul Kültür University and Bauhaus University. She believes the architectural discipline shall be seen in the context of S,M,L,XL scales that always juxtapose, meanwhile create stimulating stories.

Meryem has worked in professional environment both in architectural design offices and construction sites for 8 years. She was a project architect in several projects in varying countries such as Turkey, Germany, Netherlands and Egypt. In parallel to her professional life she was always passionate about the theory and storytelling behind the architectural practice. She had a great chance to get involved in exciting and pioneering projects such as collaborative housing projects in Germany and university campus design for Technical University in Eindhoven. Beside her architectural career, she has been fascinated with the 3D printing technologies and curious about the application of this technology into design disciplines. She has founded a start up on 2019 to utilize the ceramic 3D printing technology into production of art inspired jewelleries. The company has been a pioneer of its market and after successful establishment it was sold to a passionate investor. She is a strong believer that research and education shall come hand and hand with the professional applications in order to see the whole real image and create better life for all.

Degrees:

Master of Science in Media Architecture from Bauhaus University, Weimar 2015
Bachelor of Architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2013

Mostafa Ahmed Youssef

Visual Design & Presentation Department

Email: Mostafa.yousef@guc.edu.eg

Mostafa Ahmed Youssef is an instructor in Visual Design Department in German University in Cairo since 2016, Who teaches Architectural Visual Communications at bachelor and pre master level, as a research-based artist. read more

He approaches his teaching as an experimental pedagogy through which the most important part is about questioning. When young students enroll in art and design schools, they are naturally curious. He offers guidance by driving their curiosity towards more critical questions unveiling a hidden deeper facet of design. His main focus is to tackle this intellectual and critical field of thought. Therefore, when he had the opportunity to develop new syllabus for the courses he teach, he focused on the notion of questioning creating “What If” scenarios to further enhance the students’ critical thinking skills. The courses have to do with the changing nature of existence, the constant transformation and the strive for adaptation to change. Through these courses, the students are encouraged to become skeptical and question everything surrounding them that they have once taken for granted. Only then, they are able to develop a better understanding of their context seeing the familiar in new ways and manifesting their ideas clearly.

His practice combines experiences from the fields of art and architecture, where he explores historical and contemporary instances from political and social stand points. He investigates and dissects emerging urban and architectural patterns, drawing the left-out qualities through contextually re-established situations. His work includes experimentation with diverse media: miniatures, drawings, collage, photography, printmaking and graphic novels. With subjects that widely vary in scale, from the individual, to the architectural, to the city. He developed a language of drawing that is characterized by an emphasis on the process inherent within architecture; a process that is usually absent in the architectural representation.

Degrees:

Master of Arts in Story Telling and Comic Design (with Distinction) from LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium Year 2014 – 2015
Joint Degree Master of Science in Architectural Design Theory Program from University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Year 2010 – 2011
Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt Year 2006-2011

Selected Publications:

Youssef, Mostafa and Omar Kassab. (2019) "With Seven Bodies in My Backyard." MONU Magazine, Issue 31 Afterlife Urbanism.
Youssef, Mostafa. (2016) Ialu - The Field of Dreams. Cairo: Dar Toya Press.

Yasmina Sherif Sarhan

Building Technology Department
Email: Yasmina.sarhan@guc.edu.eg

Yasmina Sarhan is an Instructor in Building Technology department in the Architecture and Urban Design Faculty at the German University in Cairo. Sarhan is currently finishing her PHD degree in: Cairo University, Faculty: Urban and Regional Planning Major, Landscape and Urban Design Program. read more

She is a Ph.D Candidate. She has a premaster in Town Planning and urban development Master Program in NRW "Nordrhein westfalen", Germany. It is a Joint Study Program in cooperation with five Universities: University Siegen and the Universities of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Dortmund, Ostwestfalen-Lippe and Cologne. Sarhan completed her B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering in 2011 at faculty of engineering, Cairo University, where she has previous experience also working as a teaching assistant, in addition to working in Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime (AAST).

Sarhan has teaching experience in Building Technology, Design studios, Architectural drawing, renewable energy, sustainable building, graduation projects and geographical information system (GIS)

Sarhan participated in organization committee as supervisor for the first German architecture day in Egypt organized by Egyptian sustainable lab “ESU LAB” Mansoura University and hosted by German University in Cairo. Also participated in the conference organized by UNDP in Cairo University to reach ten objectives to upgrade the situation in Egypt. She was a UNDP ambassador from Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, and Cairo University. She participated in organizing “Arch Cairo Conference the fifth” of architecture department, faculty of engineering, Cairo university.

Also, she worked in Research Project called PLEV “Productive Low cost environmentally friendly Village Project” with Housing and building national research center in Giza, which is funded from STDF “Science and Technology development fund in Egypt”. She has also assisted in a Research Project about Regenerating Public spaces in central Cairo, Monitoring passage in central Cairo

Research interests include participatory urban design and upgrading specially Left over spaces that is caused by infrastructural networks. Her specializations and fields of interest include sustainable Urban Development & strategic Planning, Community Development, and Urban Regeneration, Sustainable building technology strategies and their applications.

Degrees:

PHD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at Cairo University (on going)
Master degree in Urban Design and Community Development, from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University Year 2016
Bachelor degree in Architecture Engineering, from faculty of Engineering , Cairo university Year 2011

Selected Publications:

Eichner, M., & Sarhan, Y. (2020). Comparative Analysis of Vertical Village’s Case Studies as Strategy to Re-Attract City Centers of Mega Cities in Developing Countries. ICECAD 2020: International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Architecture and Design, Berlin, Germany, under following link https://panel.waset.org/conference/2020/07/berlin/program?fbclid=IwAR1-kpWuXt5tI-DDraz16p4V0A0zbfxoLKoDVYVWY7wIAT6hSOHYGdcIW8I, Last retrieved November 2020
Sarhan, Y., & Atty, A. (2020). User Perception towards Integration of Socio-Cultural Typologies under Infrastructural Networks in the Egyptian Urban Tissue. ICECAD 2020: International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Architecture and Design, Berlin, Germany, https://panel.waset.org/conference/2020/07/berlin/program?fbclid=IwAR1-kpWuXt5tI-DDraz16p4V0A0zbfxoLKoDVYVWY7wIAT6hSOHYGdcIW8I, Last retrieved November, 2020>
Sarhan, Y., Atty, A., & Kamel, R. (2016). TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIO-CULTURAL TYPOLOGIES IN THE EGYPTIAN URBAN TISSUE. Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, http://main.eulc.edu.eg/eulc_v5/Libraries/start.aspx?fn=ApplySearch&ScopeID=&criteria1=2.&SearchText1=Sarhan%2C+Yasmina+Sherif, Last retrieved November, 2020