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8 months 3 weeksMae Al-Ansari is Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture, Kuwait University. She teaches undergraduate studios and lectures on the history, theory and criticism of architecture. Her research focuses on intersections of social housing, tectonics, gender, conditions of the city, and cultural studies. She has published in the International Journal of the Constructed Environment (IJCE), Frontiers in Built Environment, and the edited volume, Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity (2019).
PhD in Architecture (School of Architecture & Interior Design, DAAP, University of Cincinnati, OH - USA)
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies (School of Architecture & Interior Design, DAAP, University of Cincinnati, OH - USA)
Master of Science in Architecture (School of Architecture & Interior Design, DAAP, University of Cincinnati, OH - USA)
Bachelor of Architecture (Kuwait University)
Cultural Approaches to Architecture
Tectonics in Architecture
Critiques of Modern Architecture
Public Housing
Sustainable Urban Development in Public Housing
Women's Studies (minor)
Introduction to Architecture
Architectural Design Studios (II - III - IV - V - VI)
Architectural History III
Theory & Philosophy of Architecture I/II
Architectural Graduation Project I/II
Architectural Criticism
Indigenous Architecture
Selected Topics in Architecture
"Sustainable Urban Forms in the Arabian Gulf: an evidence-based analysis of Kuwaiti social housing neighborhoods at Jaber Al-Ahmed City." Frontiers in Built Environment 9 (2023). Co-authored with Saud Al-Khaled. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2023.1154523.
"Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait." In K. Kılınç & M. Gharipour (Eds.), Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity (pp. 207-238). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019.
"Marilyn Monroe Visits Chicago." Co- authored with Kathryn H. Anthony, International Journal of the Constructed Environment (IJCE), Vol 2, Issue 4 (2013), p.125-143.