Aziza Chaouni

Aziza Chaouni (Arabic; عزيزة شاؤني) is a Moroccan architect who teaches at the University of Toronto.

Aziza Chaouni
Born
Aziza Chaouni
NationalityMoroccan
Known forArchitecture

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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."[1]

Chaouni has a postgraduate degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.[2] In 2014 she gave a TED talk on how her architectural work helped to revive the Fez River which runs through her hometown of Fez, Morocco.[3]

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.[4]

She was in charge of the restoration of Jean-François Zevaco's brutalist Sidi Harazem Bath Complex, leading a team of architects, engineers, researchers and photographers.[5]

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References
  1. "Aziza Chaouni". University of Toronto. University of Toronto. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  2. "Aziza Chaouni". University of Toronto. University of Toronto. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. "Aziza Chaouni, Architect + ecotourism specialist". TED.com. TED. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  4. Lewis, Danny (13 July 2016). "The World's Oldest Working Library Will Soon Open Its Doors to the Public". Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  5. Lange, Alexandra (2019-10-01). "Brutalism Springs Eternal in Morocco". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
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