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S hahira H. Fahmy is an architect from Egypt who’s work strives to make a balance between new spatial concepts and existing context: culture, tradition, urban morphology, climatic...etc. in the pursuit of language that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Along with her design practice she is engaged in teaching and research.
Shahira H. Fahmy has won the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Architectural competition for young architects for her design of a Residential project in Cairo 2005, as well as the Medina Design Excellence award for furniture design presided over by international juror “Ingo Maurer” 2000.
Education and teaching
Shahira studied architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, graduated with honors in 1997 and was awarded the Theory and History of Architecture Course Prize as well as the Structural Theories Prize award. She then became an assistant lecturer. She received a Masters in Architecture from Cairo University in 2004. She is currently teaching at the architectural department, Cairo University. In addition to her teaching career, she worked as an architect with the leading engineering firm in the Middle East “Dar El Handasah” 2000-2002, and then in 2002 she established her own private Architectural practice “Shahira H. Fahmy - Architects” based in Cairo, Egypt, providing Architecture, Interior design, and Furniture Design. Also, during the period 1998 – 2007, she has participated in a number of international and national architectural and interior design competitions.
Current projects
Shahira H. Fahmy architects is working on a variety of projects including:
The architecture of a number of residential projects private houses on the outskirts of Cairo; the Interior design for publication house bookstores, Alexandria and Cairo; the interior design of number of private apartments and houses on the north coast and Cairo. The practice is part of a French team of architects led by the French firm Petitdidier Prioux are also on the final competition shortlist of architects to design the ‘Restructuration of the site of the Mounira Palace’ for the Institut Francais D’Archeologie Orientale du Caire IFAO, launched by the French Ministry of National Education Research and Higher education.
Shahira H. Fahmy has been selected to participate in the Annual International Furniture fair “Salone Internazionale del Mobile”, Milan. In Salone Sattellite April 2007, for emerging young talents.
Contacts
10 Geziret El Arab St.
Mohandeseen, Giza, Egypt
Tel : + (202) 74 96 144
Fax : + (202) 74 96 312
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www.sfahmy.com
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