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Daniel Daou

Daniel Daou

Cambridge, MA, US

 

About 

Daniel Daou is currently a doctoral student at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. His thesis, Synthetic Ecology, explores the relationship between the design disciplines and the ecological imagination from 1972 onward and the ways in which the ecological metaphor can help reconsider an emancipatory project for architecture today. 

Daniel holds a Litentiate in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana graduating top of his class in 2006. He was an exchange student at the M.Arch II program at SCIArc, and, in 2011, with the support from the Fulbright program, the Brockman Foundation, and the National Council for Science and Technology, he obtained a Master in Science of Architecture Studies and a Master in City Planning with an Urban Design Certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also a ‘Young Artist’ grantee by the National Fund for Culture and Arts from 2005 to 2006.

Prior to obtaining his graduate degrees, he worked as Unit Chief at the Department of Urban Development and Housing in Mexico City, studio instructor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and junior designer at Fernado Romero/FREE, Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos, and Castillo+Springall/Arq911.

Daniel has been involved in over 40 projects spanning a dozen countries. He has been research assistant, teaching fellow, and lecturer at MIT and Harvard and a guest critic at MIT, Harvard, the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Boston Architectural College, and the Danish Academy of the Arts. 

At Harvard, he has been a Fellow of the Energy Council at the Center for the Environment and a member of New Geographies’ editorial board from 2013 to 2018 where he co-edited the ninth volume of the journal. Over the last decade, he has contributed over 60 essays on design for several magazines and journals including Domus Mexico, Arquine, Thresholds, Lunch, and New Geographies. 

Daniel is a sci-fi fan, an avid traveler, and a half decent cook.

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Education 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US, Doctor of Design

Aug 2011 - current
 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, US, Master of Science in Architectural Studies

Aug 2008 - Aug 2011
 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, US, Master in City Planning

Aug 2008 - May 2011
 
Aug 2005 - May 2006
 

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