Dalal Alsayer and Neeraj Bhatia will present a lecture as part of the Spring 2021 HTX Lecture Series, which fall under the theme Spaces of Extraction.

Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture at Kuwait University. Her research lies at the intersection of architecture, environment, and development in the context of the Arab World during the twentieth century. She is the co-author, with Ricardo Camacho & Sara Saragoça Soares, of Pan-Arab Modernism: History of Architectural Practice in The Middle East and is currently developing her manuscript based on her dissertation, Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, which examines the ways the that United States’s development programs sought to transform the social, environmental, and urban fabric of the Arab World.

Neeraj Bhatia is a licensed architect and urban designer from Toronto, Canada. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where he also co-directs the urbanism research lab, The Urban Works Agenccy. Neeraj is also founder of The Open Workshop, a transcalar design-research office examining the negotiation between architecture and its territorial environment.