Omar Abolnaga

Lectured on History and Theory of Architecture and led the History of Architecture and Landscape 1 module. Managed weekly office hours, attendance reporting, and coursework/essay assessment.

Produced and hosted Cairo Cast Podcast, contributing to it reaching the top 10 podcasts in Egypt for society and culture.

Assisted the MArch Part II course coordinator with teaching delivery by running design realisation tutorials and providing student feedback. Supported weekly office hours, attendance reporting, and assessment of coursework and essays.

Supported course coordinators for UCL Urban Lab’s London Stream by assisting with weekly seminars. Provided writing surgeries for students across the Cities Studio programme (MASC Global Urbanism).

Observed patients and technicians at Moorfields Eye Hospital to improve spatial experience through space syntax analysis. Supported applied spatial analysis focused on healthcare environments.

Tutored architectural design, interior design, history and theory, building construction, visual skills, and computer-aided design for Years 1–4. Marked pinups, co-supervised architectural design graduation projects, and supported studio/course assessment and design work.

Assisted faculty with Interior Design 1 teaching and assessment. Marked pinups and essays and supported final-exam marking for the course.

Designed and visualised a new gym complex for Gezeira Sports Club in Cairo as an architect for ICPD Cairo.

Provided teaching support across architectural design, interior design history and theory, and building construction for Years 1–4. Assisted with pin-up marking and supported supervisors in architectural design graduation projects.

Prepared preliminary moodboards for residential and public buildings and produced final executive drawings during an architectural internship at Dar Noama.

Prepared research boards for developments in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital and participated in designing and visualising projects, including work on a new school in Cairo’s Smart Village.

Activities and societies: Primary supervisor: Prof. Clare Melhuish; secondary supervisor: Prof. Sophia Psarra.

PhD in Architectural and Urban History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, examining how society, governance, and discourse shape informal urbanism in contemporary Cairo. Thesis: The Production of ʿAshwaʾiyyat: (In)formality, Discourse, and the Politics of Space in Contemporary Cairo.

Grade: GPA 4.0 in preliminary studies

Activities and societies: Supervised by Prof. Aly H. Gabr.

MSc in Architectural History and Theory at Cairo University. Thesis: Influence of Post-Renaissance Ideology on Egyptian Post-Cairo Traditional Architecture: A Case Study of Cairene Islamic Religious Buildings.

Grade: Distinction with High Honours (91%)

Activities and societies: Ranked first out of the Class of 2017 cohort (about 200 students).

Bachelor of Architectural Engineering at Cairo University. Graduated first in the class (top of cohort) with High Honours/Distinction.

Activities and societies: Ranked 7th out of approximately 150,000 students.

General Secondary Certificate (Maths section). Ranked 7th in the 2012 class in Maths in the Arab Republic of Egypt.