ATELIER HAMRA - Key Persons
Gamar received her diploma from the American University of Beirut LDEM program in 2005. She worked as a freelance landscape architect on several projects locally and abroad. In 2006, Gamar returned to Lebanon and taught in the AUB LDEM Program. In parallel, she also taught and worked at EARTH University, Costa Rica for two consecutive years, where she was exposed to the recent applied technologies of sustainable agriculture and recycling. Gamar is currently mastering in Urban Design at the American University of Beirut, and Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons / New York. Gamar has a strong interest in the environmental relevance of a project: preserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainability are essential to her. She is passionate about giving shape to ideas and following them from sketch to execution.
Maha received her diploma with honors from l'Ecole d'Architecture de Paris Villemin in 1998. Beyond architecture, the relationship between building and landscape is at the heart of her interest. After a short period working as an architect, she joined the landscape architecture firm "AgenceTer" in Paris in 2001 where she worked on projects of various scales. This experience allowed her to understand the social role and responsibility of a landscape architect. After returning to Beirut in 2005, Maha taught landscape design in the department of landscape design and eco-system management, LDEM, at the American University of Beirut. Maha is passionate about multidisciplinary research and the development of concepts as well as their communication to clients. The lack of green public spaces in Beirut and the absolute necessity of creating more of them is one of her concerns.