News Highlights
Author:
Lina Jbara,
Office of Communications,
laj03@aub.edu.lb
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Haddad and Dajani win Azar award
Dorman addressing the audience |
Students bustled through the doors of the Architecture Lecture Hall in the Dar al-Handasah Architecture Building on October 30 to hear the results of the Fawzi W. Azar Architectural Award, established in 1996 by the Azar family and Builders Design Consultants in honor of the philanthropist Fawzi Azar. This award is much coveted by fourth and fifth year architecture students because the prize is $10,000 worth of tuition fees for the fifth year.
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Attending the award ceremony were President Peter Dorman, Dean Ibrahim Hajj of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Howayda Al Harithy, chairperson of the Department of Architecture; George Arbid, associate professor in the Department of Architecture; and Nabil Azar and many students and staff members.
President Dorman welcomed the students, describing them as the "future glory of AUB" and urging them "to go forth" after graduation to make the world a better place. He then recounted Azar's many accomplishments, including the refurbishment of West Hall and most recently, the new Suliman S. Olayan School of Business building. He concluded by thanking Azar for making it possible for other students to study at AUB with this award. |
 | Winners and participants with jury and Azar (second from right)
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Dean Hajj then recounted his memories of Nabil Azar during his days as a student leader at AUB in the early '60s. According to Hajj, Azar never left AUB; even if his body left, his mind and spirit never did.
Professor Arbid gave the audience details of the competition involving a selection process based on a two-stage jury competition. The first stage, held last June, was an all day esquisse; students were challenged to develop in one day an environmentally sensitive model of a sustainable hammam spa to be located on Bechara el Khoury Avenue. The jury, composed of Nabil Azar, Fawzi Azar, Hani Zgheib, Aram Yeretzian, and Robert Saliba, selected five candidates to continue-Dana Hamdan, Marwan Hamade, Joelle Khoury, Dara Dajani-Daoudi, and Julie Haddad. On October 15 another jury composed of Nabil Azar, Hani Zgheib, Carole Levesque, Karim Najjar, and Rana Samara selected the winners, Julie Haddad and Dara Dajani-Daoudi, who won 55 percent and 45 percent of the award respectively. |
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