Abeer Seikaly is a Palestinian architect who designed a multi-use, disaster shelter for refugees. She lives in
Amman Jordan. Seikaly is an architect and designer who has worked for Villa Moda in Kuwait in 2005. She directed the first contemporary art fair in Jordan in 2010.
Her style of work
Seikaly's ‘Weaving a Home’ uses fabric composed of high-strength plastic tubing molded into sine-waves that expand and enclose based on weather conditions; it is easily broken down to allow for mobility and transport. The tent also collects rainwater to be used for basic sanitation like showering, and absorb solar energy that is stored as electric energy in batteries.
Career
She is a member of RISE- Jordan's Women's Everest Expedition, that climbed
Mount Everest
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in 2018.
Her works have been featured internationally, including at the
MoMA
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in New York, the
MAK in
Vienna
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, and the
Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. in
Amsterdam
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.
Awards and honours
In 2013 she was awarded the Lexus Design Award.
See also
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Kamel Mahadin
Kamel Mahadin (Arabic: كامل محادين; born June 24, 1954) is a Jordanian architect, landscape architect, professor, author, and artist. He was the Chief Commissioner of Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and was a Jordanian se ...
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Ali Maher (artist/architect)
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian architects
Jordanian architects
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