Bashar Sweed

Bashar Swaid is the Director of Reconstruction and Tangible Heritage at Syrian Development Organization, he is the Dean of Faculty of Architectural Engineering at University of Yarmouk and a member of the Architectural and Technological Design Laboratory at the University of Calabria. He is a research fellow at the Shattuck Center at American University in Budapest, CEU. For the past twenty years, he has worked on interdisciplinary issues: urban development, rehabilitation of historical Islamic cities, parametric and algorithmic architecture and genetic design. He led a team preparing the detailed master plans dealing with informal settlements, expansion and industrial areas in Damascus and Aleppo from 2006-2012. Bashar is a co-founder of Al-Diwan engineering consulting office in Aleppo, and he chaired the supervision team for constructing the new industrial city (Al-Belleramon) in Aleppo from 2010-2013