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Omniyat has announced its latest recipient of the Zaha Hadid/Omniyat Fellowship Fund, aprestigious program supporting talented Arab architect students in honor of the late Dame Zaha Hadid, worldrenowned architect and designer of the luxury property developer’s flagship building,The Opus located in the heart of Downtown Dubai.
Aiysha Alsane, the latest addition to receive the fellowship fund is a Kuwaiti architect currently pursuing a master’s in landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). The young architect, who works for international design firm AGi architects, was involved in notable academic projects at the GSD under the tutelage of prestigious professors. The fellowship has funded part of her master’s education.
Omniyat established the Zaha Hadid/Omniyat Fellowship as an homage to Hadid’s extraordinary contributions in architecture and design. The Fellowship provides financial aid to qualified candidates of the UAE and the rest of the Arab world who are enrolled in the GSD Master in Architecture program.
Omniyat CEO and Executive Chairman Mahdi Amjad led the unveiling of the Fellowship back in 2016 at Harvard GSD, where Hadid taught as a Design Critic in Architecture in 1986. A recipient of numerous awards, Hadid was bestowed the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, making her the first woman to do so. She was also the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize.
Amjad said: “We are pleased with Aiysha’s accomplishments at the GSD. Studying her past projects, we were intrigued by her curiosity and unique execution, complementing Omniyat’s commitment to develop signature buildings with striking design and architecture. We believe Aiysha embodies what Zaha stood for as she advocated for designs that went beyond the norm. We hope to continue inspiring a new generation of designers in a bid to discover talent that will sustain Zaha’s legacy and works on the international stage.”
Alsane said: “The Zaha Hadid/Omniyat Fellowship has allowed me to pursue a professional degree at one of the most prestigious programs in a field I feel passionately for. It has made one part of graduate school easier, and for that, I am very grateful.”
Alsane was engaged in noted projects at the GSD that were products of a highly collaborative environment. During her first semester, she and her two team members designed a project titled “Symbiotic Infrastructure,” a working landscape where people engage with the water process consolidating otherwise distant processes in the treatment and consumption of water in urban living. She was also part of a team of 12 students who worked on a comprehensive project titled “Regenerating Sovereignty.” The site of the project was the Juana Diaz Watershed, home to the defunct Fort Allen US Military Base.
Both projects along with another personal project for a separate course were nominated for Platform 11, the GSD’s “annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions.” She is now participating in a project in which the site is located in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, a rural area with rich archaeological history.
Alsane is also an active member of Women in Design and participated in the organization of Convergence. ‘Women in Design’ is a student group “engaging students, staff and faculty to think about the role of women in the field.”
About Omniyat Group:
Omniyat Group is a Dubai-based, privately-held property development group that is committed to Dubai's vision of leading by design. It builds unique projects, at vantage locations within master communities and employs a consistent, bespoke approach in its project development, design and delivery. Omniyat specializes in creating large-scale collaborations with globally acclaimed architects, designers, artists and firms, to deliver its high value and desirable projects.
http://www.omniyat.com
About The Harvard University Graduate School of Design:
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design is dedicated to the education and development of design professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design. With a commitment to design excellence that demands the skillful manipulation of form and technology and draws inspiration from a broad range of social, environmental, and cultural issues, the Harvard Graduate School of Design provides leadership for shaping the built environment of the twenty-first century.
gsd.harvard.edu
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