Aziza Chaouni

b. 1977

Morocco

Aziza 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 (ACP) with offices in Fez, Morocco and Toronto, Canada. She is also the Director of the Designing Ecological Tourism Research platform at the Daniels faculty. Aziza Chaouni is also the principal of Aziza Chaouni Projects (ACP) based in Fez, Morocco and Toronto, Canada. 

Chaouni’s practice, research and teaching focus on sustainable design and construction in the developing world. She is also interested in the integration of architecture and landscape, particularly through the implementation of sustainable technologies in arid climates. She is the author/ editor of three books: Desert Tourism, Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development (with Virginie Lefebvre), Out of Water, Design Solutions for Arid Regions (with Liat Margolis), and Ecotourism, Nature Conservation and Development, Reimagining Jordan’s Shobak Arid Region. In 2007, Chaouni co-founded Docomomo Morocco in with the late Mohammed El Hariri. Chaouni has rehabilitated several heritage buildings, including the Qarawiyine library, the oldest library in the Middle East. She is responsible construction management plans for the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex and for the CICES (with Mourtada Gueye), both supported by the Keeping it Modern grant of the Getty Foundation. Chaouni is also collaborating with the World Monuments Fund on the Future of Ontario Place project and the rehabilitation of the oldest university in West Africa Old Fourah Bay College. 

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.

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1. About.” Aziza Chaouni Projects. Accessed March 8, 2020. http://www.azizachaouniprojects.com/about/. Archived at https://perma.cc/54WH-BP3W.

2. Chaouni, Aziza. n.d. “Aziza Chaouni | University Of Toronto - Academia.Edu.” Academia.Edu. Accessed March 8, 2020. http://utoronto.academia.edu/AzizaChaouni. Archived at https://perma.cc/W2ZT-MHP2.

3. Aziza Chaouni.” Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Accessed March 8, 2020f. https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/core-faculty/aziza-chaouni. Archived at https://perma.cc/N4H9-DK9D. 

4. “Designing Ecological Tourism (DET).” Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Accessed March 8, 2020j. https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/work/research/designing-ecological-tourism-det. Archived at https://perma.cc/AHK4-Q2PR.