Ammar Eloueini

Ammar Eloueini, born 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon

Ammar Eloueini is a registered architect who established AEDS (Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio) in 1997, an award winning design practice in Architecture, Product and Digital Media with offices in the United States and Europe. AEDS projects challenge traditional design processes and answer new architectural and spatial complexities. In 2001, Eloueini was awarded the prestigious Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes, the French Institute of Architects’ highest recognition for architects under thirty-five. In 2005, AEDS design for Issey Miyake Pleats Please retail space in Berlin received from the AIA American Institute of Architects Chicago Chapter, two Design Excellence Awards: Interior Architecture and Divine Detail. AEDS designs have been featured in solo and group exhibits and published worldwide. Eloueini's first book was funded in part by the Graham Foundation and published by ORO Editions in 2006.

Between 1999 and 2005, Ammar Eloueini chaired the Digital Media Program, taught design studio, theory and digital fabrication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently Eloueini is an Associate Professor at Tulane University and a Visiting Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Ammar Eloueini received, with honors, the degree of Diplômé par le Gouvernement from Paris-Villemin in 1994, and graduated with a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 1996. Eloueini has participated in several symposia, including “Mixing It Up With Mies” at the Canadian Center for Architecture and the International Symposium in Electronic Art. Recent completed designs of Eloueini include the exhibition Skin Tight at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, a stage set for choreographer John Jasperse and several retail spaces for fashion designer Issey Miyake.

The work of Ammar Eloueini is part of four permanent collections:

* MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York
* Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal
* Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans
* VIA Gallery in Paris

Works

* CoReFab#71 chair 2006
* Issey Miyake me store in Paris 2006
* ONS Exhibition of the Norwegian State in Stavanger Norway 2006
* Issey Miyake Pleats Please in Berlin 2004
* "Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh" Exhibition design at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Center in Chicago 2004
* John Jasperse's California stage set design 2003

Honors and Awards

* Emerging Voices Architectural League NY 2007
* "Aides a projet" VIA Grant 2006-2007
* Divine Detail AIA Chicago Chapter 2006
* Divine Detail AIA Chicago Chapter 2005
* Interior Architecture AIA Chicago Chapter 2005
* Modern + Design + Function DWR & TENbyTEN 2004
* Emerging Visions Chicago Architectural Club 2003
* Possible Futures Bienal Miami+Beach 2003
* Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes French Ministry of Culture 2001 - 2002
* Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award FEIDAD 2002
* Graham Foundation Grant 2001
* Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award FEIDAD 2001
* Villa Medicis Hors les Murs French Ministry of Culture 1998

External links

* [http://www.digit-all.net/ Ammar Eloueini AEDS website]
* [http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=0&articleID=385543 "architect" magazine article]
* [http://www.archpaper.com/features/2007_04_emerge.htm Architect's Newspaper article]
* [http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2006DEA/awards.asp?subID=281 AIA Honor Award for the Miyake store]
* [http://architettura.supereva.com/architetture/20040228/index.htm Review of Nubi"k" Installation]
* [http://architettura.supereva.com/architetture/20050329/index.htm Review of John Jasperse's California stage set]
* [http://archrecord.construction.com/archrecord2/design/may04/digit-all.asp Architectural Record article]
* [http://www.mediamente.rai.it/mmold/english/bibliote/intervis/e/eloueini.htm MediaMente Rai Interview]