GENERAL
mustapha.jundi@gmail.com
Mustapha Jundi (b. 1976, Tripoli, Lebanon) is an architect and researcher based between Beirut, London, and KSA. He is also a recent MPhil graduate from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. His doctoral research investigated borders and the underground, and the conceptualization of the intersection between knowledge gaps and paranoia as a research methodology. In his practice, he considers a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of design, visual culture, and geography. He holds a MArch from Yale University and was a fellow at Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program (2015-16) where he worked with video and text to examine the ruin in personal memory and culture as a spatial apparatus. He was a part-time senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut (2012-2018) where he led several design studios and Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London leading one of the sections for Media Studies. In addition, he co-curated the Arch 50th Anniversary Exhibit at the American University of Beirut in 2018. He was awarded the Highly Recommended Award in the International Property Awards 2015 for his architectural project "Mina 1394" located in Downtown Beirut.
EDUCATION
MPHIL (2024) Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London - London, UK
FELLOWSHIP (2016) Home Workspace Program , The Lebanese Association For Plastic Arts (Ashkal Alwan) - Beirut, Lebanon
MARCH II (2007) Yale University - New Haven, CT, USA
BARCH (2000) American University of Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon
TEACHING
ASSOCIATE LECTURER (2020-2023) Media Studies, Royal College of Art - London, UK
SENIOR LECTURER (2011 - 2018) Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP (2007) Yale School of Architecture - New Haven, CT, USA - 2007
PRACTICE
DESIGN MANAGER (2024-PRESENT) KSA INDEPENDENT (2015 - 2024) Beirut, Lebanon
CO-FOUNDER (2009 - 2015) Apractice Studio - Beirut, Lebanon
DESIGNER (2007 - 2009) Diller Scofidio + Renfro - New York, NY, USA
DESIGNER (2002 - 2005) Weiss Manfredi Architects - New York, NY, USA
AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
EXHIBITIONS: ACADEMIC
- H.I. Feldman Award (Nomination) (2006) Yale University - New Haven, CT, USA - Project: Helsinki Urbanism
- Schools of Architecture Exhibit (2006) Center for Architecture - New York, NY, USA - Project: Helsinki Urbanism
- Some True Stories exhibit (2008) Storefront for Art and Architecture - New York, NY, USA - Project: Train
EXHIBITIONS: PROFESSIONAL
- Border Proxies (Public Installation) Curated by Mohamad Hafeda and Hiba Bou Akar
- Vulnerability, Infrastructure, and Displacement (2019)
UCL, Insitutue of Global Prosperity - London, UK
- AUB Architecture 50th Anniversary American University of Beirut 2018 - Beirut, Lebanon - Exhibition co-curation and catalog co-editing
- Between Land and Sea exhibit Beirut Design Week 2018 - Beirut, Lebanon
- Building as Artifact exhibit Beirut Design Week 2015 - Beirut, Lebanon - Project: Dar El-Nimr, Foundation of Art and Culture
- Archmarathon 2015 (Selection) Beirut, Lebanon - Project: Mina 1394 (Office building)
- International Property Awards 2015 (Highly recommended award) - Project: Mina 1394 (Office building)
SCREENINGS: PROFESSIONAL
- Art, Ecology, and the Commons (2022) The Mosaic Rooms - London, UK - Video: The Line
- Beirut Lab: 1975 (2020) or again, rubbed smooth, a moment in time - caesura
(2019) University of California Irvine - CA, USA - Video: I Thought I Knew Where I Was Going
- VideoWorks (2017) Ashkal Alwan - Beirut, Lebanon - Video: I Thought I Knew Where I Was Going
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2018) York, UK - Video: I Thought I Knew Where I Was Going