Omniyat has announced its latest recipient of the Zaha Hadid/Omniyat Fellowship Fund, a prestigious program supporting talented Arab architect students in honor of the late Dame Zaha Hadid, world renowned architect and designer of the luxury property developer’s flagship building,The Opus located in the heart of Downtown Dubai.
Aiysha Alsane, the latest addition to receive the fellowship fund is a Kuwaiti architect currently pursuing a master’s in landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). The young architect, who works for international design firm AGi architects, was involved in notable academic projects at the GSD under the tutelage of prestigious professors. The fellowship has funded part of her master’s education.
Omniyat established the Zaha Hadid/ Omniyat Fellowship as an homage to Hadid’s extraordinary contributions in architecture and design. The Fellowship provides financial aid to qualified candidates of the UAE and the rest of the Arab world who are enrolled in the GSD Master in Architecture program.
This story is from the March 2019 edition of Landscape Middle East.
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