Ali Ismail KarimiAli Ismail Karimi is a Bahraini architect and educator interested in social housing, public space, and infrastructural re-imaginings of the GCC countries. Ali received his Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch I '1). He has worked in Brussels with OFFICE KGDVS, in New York with SO-IL, and in Santiago-Chile with Elemental. In 2016 he was the curator of the Kuwait Pavilion titled "Between East and West: A Gulf" at the Venice Biennale with Hamed Bukhamseen. Karimi has conducted research on government-built housing in the GCC with the Affordable Housing Institute in Boston as a Joint Center for Housing Studies Fellow; and in Havana with a grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Ali practices in Manama and teaches architecture design studio at the University of Bahrain. His work and writings have been published in various academic journals including San Rocco, CLOG, and he most recently edited the third issue of the Harvard GSD student publication, Very Vary Veri (VVV). Read More Read Less