About

Riyad is an Architect and Researcher, based in Dubai.
In 2015, he founded the 'Middle East Architectural Network' (MEAN); an Innovative Architecture Practice, the synergistic counterpart to 'Middle East Architecture Laboratory' (MEAL); an Experimental Design Repository.
He worked in New York and Hong Kong from 2012- 2017 at the intersection of academia and practice, on complex structures, facades and building technologies, with a focused interest in design that is at the junction of technology, material research, and computation.
Riyad earned his Master of Architecture at the Emergent Technologies & Design program at the AA School of Architecture (London, UK).