Hazem Ziada
Research Scholar
Degrees
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, 2019
PhD in Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
MArch, Clemson University, 1995
BArch, Cairo University, 1986
GCE, University of London, (through the British Council in Cairo), 1981
Dr. Hazem Ziada’s research explores conceptions of religious experience, the history and morphology of sacred spaces, the impact of social formations (congregations, crowds, organized social movements) on space-making, building typologies, and the affective experience of the urban fabric.
At Candler, he teaches the “Sacred Space in World Religions” summer course, which explores how architectural space may scaffold religious experiences comparatively across faith traditions. In Spring 2024, he is scheduled to co-teach the course “The City: Atlanta, the Church, and God’s Mission.”
Until March 2022, he was senior lecturer and director of the Master in Architecture (RIBA Part 2) program at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Huddersfield (UK).
Ziada is also a visiting lecturer at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture.
CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
“Strange Familiar: Unpacking al-‘Imara Typology in Cairo” in The Journal of Urbanism, 2023
“The Digital Crowd” in Architecture and Culture; “To See (Like) a Crowd” in Architectural Histories, 2020
“Sacred Spaces” and “Architecture in the Middle East” in the Encyclopaedia of Christianity in the Global South, 2018
“Mosque (till 1900),” in The Oxford Companion to Architecture, 2010