Princeton University Art Museum | Exhibition Design
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
Xholobeni Yards
Killing in the name of
European Border and Politics of Migration
War As Waste Land
Against the Denial of Wetland
Ahwar of Southern Iraq
Archipelago of US Borders
Life Support Ecosystem
Cloud Alley
Memorial Park
Ted & Nune Studio
The Landless Review
Bites of Architecture
Farah Alkhoury (She/Her) is an Iraqi architect and researcher based in New York, currently an Architecture Fellow at Bard College, NY. Her work examines environmental violence and political entanglements as consequential to architecture and spatial thinking. Engaging across various mediums, including exhibition design, research, teaching, and advocacy concerned with environmental justice.
Her current research "Occupied Ecologies: Architecture of Toxic Proliferation", attends to the presence of military toxicity that remains embedded in the soil, water, and air long after wars end. This design research is focused on three interconnected ecologies within Iraq, Vieques, and the United States, engaging with activism that emerges against invisible forms of environmental violence.
Farah has previously taught at GSAPP-Columbia, Rutgers University, and NJIT. She has collaborated on numerous research and exhibition projects, including with Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Curator Mark Wasiuta, and Studio Joseph (New York), among others. She played an integral role in the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennale through her contributions to research, coordination, and design.
She was awarded the Graham Foundation Grant in 2025 for the research project Against the Denial of Wetland: Environmental Stewardship in the Hawizeh Marsh, in collaboration with Ameneh Solati.
Farah is also the recipient of the Incubator Prize in 2024, the Honors Award for Excellence in Advanced Architectural Design, and the William Kinne Fellowship from GSAPP-Columbia. She was also nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Sharjah and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, GSAPP.
Selected Lectures
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Conversation at Ocean Space, Venice, with Xholobeni activists against extraction, Andrés Jaque, and Markus Reymann
XHOLOBENI YARDS Research Contribution with
Andrés Jaque-OFFPOLINN. Photo Miguel de Guzman
Sharjah Architecture Triennial
Architecture + Podcast Series
Bites of Architecture
PACT Zollverein: IMPACT25 ‘Countercrafts: On Practices of Resistance, Repair and Reworlding’ (Germany). Photo: Leif-Erik Schmitt
Sharjah Talks
“Last Evening on Earth” Sharjah Architecture Triennale, Contribution to film screenings with Godofredo Pereira
Drawing Matters. ‘Life Support Ecosystem’