[interim] is an architecture studio created to facilitate collaborative work, including interdisciplinary research and design projects, experimental event productions, exhibitions, and publications, and radical pedagogy in architecture and spatial justice.
The studio was founded by Nora Akawi and Eduardo Rega Calvo in New York City, and also works from Palestine and the Canary Islands.
Nora Akawi
nora.akawi@cooper.edu
Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and curator living and working in New York. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio [interim], and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union. She focuses on bordering and ruination as the architectural project of settler colonialism, drawing from border studies, political geography, and archive theory. Her work has primarily been situated in Palestine, the occupied Golan Heights, and the Canary Islands.
Nora served on the International Jury of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Lesley Lokko. Prior to joining The Cooper Union in 2019, she taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP where she was director of Studio-X Amman (2012-2019), and where she founded the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar. She curated Pluriversal and Bewildered, an architecture lecture series at The Cooper Union (2021-2022), Al Majhoola Min Al-Ard (this earth’s unknown, or, she who has been vanished from the earth) for the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans (2019), and co-curated Sarāb (2019) a festival of experimental electronic music and performance from the Arab world, and Friday Sermon at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). She co-edited the books Friday Sermon (2018) and Architecture and Representation: The Arab City (2016). She serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed Journal of Architecture Education (2023-), Faktur: Documents and Architecture (2023-), and informa, the architecture journal of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan (2022-2023).