Aziza Chaouni

Associate Professor - University of Toronto Founding Principal, Aziza Chaouni Projects Fez, Morocco

Biography

Chaouni is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the founding principal of the design practice Aziza Chaouni Projects. She is the director of the Designing Ecological Tourism Research platform at the Daniels faculty. Chaouni’s practice, research, and teaching focus on the integration of architecture and landscape through the implementation of sustainable design strategies in arid regions. She is the co-editor of Out of Water, Design Solutions for Arid Regions (with L. Margolis), and the author of Ecotourism, Nature Conservation and Development in Shobak, Jordan.

Chaouni's design work has been recognized with top awards for both the Global and Regional Africa and the Middle East competition from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction; the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award; Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Award; the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Awards; the ACSA Collaboration Award among others. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including at the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam; INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen; and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT) World Urban Forum; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. Chaouni holds a Masters of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in civil engineering from Columbia University.