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ARWA QALALWA
Architect and Designer aqalal@saic.edu
INFO
+1 312 998 1513 Chicago,Illinois
Master of Architecture candidate 2022 AWARDS • “ Fulbright Foreign Student Program” Grantee for 2020-2022. • SAIC Incentive scholarship award.
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
• Research and Teaching assistant at Design Department at Birzeit University, part-time , 2018-2020
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago (20202022)
• Architect at Al-Moghrabi, parttime, 2018-2020 • Intern at ARCHO, summer 2017
WINNING COMPETITIONS • Second prize winner -2018, of “Reconstruction of Palestinian Destroyed Villages.” LANGUAGES English, Arabic, French, and Turkish. SOFTWARE • Revit • Rhino • Lumion • Autocad
Master of Architecture (with emphasis on Interior Architecture). • Birzeit University (2013-2018) BA Architectural Engineering, GPA 3.6 • SJS- Saint Josef de l’apparition (2001-2013) Tawgihi GPA 4 CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS • AIA Illinois Emerging Professionals Summit, Sep 25, 2021 • AIAspire Leadership Conference, September 11, 2021 • The 7’th Student Innovation Conference-Hebron, 2018 • Urban Resilience Design Worshop-Amman, 2017 • 5’th International Jordanian Architectural Conference, 2016
• Photoshop
• International workshop Italy/Palestine, 2015
• Illustrator
• AMMUN-Model United Nations Conference, Amman, 2011
• InDesign