Dr. Arch. Bashar Sweid

Accreditations and memberships

• Member of the teaching staff in the architecture department at Damascus University

• Member of the architectural and technological design laboratory at the University of Calabria (Italy)

• Research fellow at the Shattuck Centre at the American University in Budapest, CEU (Hungary)

Experience

Over the past nineteen years, he has worked on interdisciplinary questions, including:

• Urban development

• Rehabilitation of historic Islamic cities

• Parametric and algorithmic architecture

• Leading a team preparing detailed master plans dealing with informal settlements, expansion and industrial areas in Damascus and Aleppo between 2006 and 2012

• Co-founder of the Diwan office for engineering consultancy in Aleppo

• Heading the team supervising the building of the new industrial city (Al-Bilyaramoun) in Aleppo from 2010 to 2013

Qualifications

• European doctorate in architectural design from the University of Calabria and the University of Nürtingen (Germany)

• PhD in urban planning from Turin Polytechnic (Italy)

• Master's degree in planning and environment from Al-Baath University

• Bachelor's degree in architecture

• Diploma in urban planning from Aleppo University

Research interests

Biologically inspired design solutions for complex adaptive systems emerging through artificial intelligence techniques; he developed an innovative evolutionary technique for filling the destroyed urban gaps in Aleppo.

Teaching and scholarly activity

• Taught courses in urban and architectural design at many Syrian and European universities from 2006 to 2024

• Took part in many international conferences

• Published and reviewed research papers in Arabic and English