Fadi Mansour (b. 1983) is a Lebanese artist based between Paris and Beirut.
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Academic Record
2020-2022 Titre à finalité professionnelle de scénariste de niveau 7 (EU) Screenwriting Certificate, École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image et du Son (La Fémis), Paris, France.
2016-2017 Master's in Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
2007-2009 Architecture Diploma / RIBA Part 2, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK.
2003-2006 Bachelor of Science in Architecture, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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Artist Residencies
2026 FAAP Residência Artística, São Paulo, Brasil
2025 Residência São João, ed. Verazão 2025, São José do Vale do Rio Preto, RJ, Brasil.
2013-2014 Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program “Creating and dispersing universes that work without working” edition led by Jalal Toufic and Anton Vidokle, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Prizes
2018 First Prize Winning Entry for THINK HOUSING urban planning competition “Alternative vision for a more inclusive city, looking at how to implement affordable housing for Beirut.”
https://thinkhousing.org/project/protective-housing-ecologies
2015 Competition Winning Entry. Open Call for an Alternative Vision of Dalieh, organized by The Civil Campaign to Protect Daliet el Raouche. www.dalieh.org/competition
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Group Exhibitions
2025 Exposição Verãzão 2025, Fazenda São João, São José do Vale do Rio Preto, RJ, Brasil.
2019 Digital Earth Symposium, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon.
2019 Vulnerability, Infrastructure and Displacement, University College London Bartlett, UK.
2018 33e édition du Salon d’Automne, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.
2018 Points of Contact, Goethe Institute Beirut, Lebanon.
2017 MA Research Architecture Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK.
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Screenings
2022 Re-Rooting exhibition public program, Darat el Funun, Amman, Jordan.
2022 Ashkal Alwan aashra video streaming platform
2021 Stateless Heritage Exhibition video program, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK.
2021 Art, Ecology and the Commons video program, TAP Beirut, Lebanon.
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Publications
2018 From Trash Dump to Dreamland: An Entangled History of Toxicity and Capital. Essay, excerpt from master's thesis.
Jadaliyya e-zine ‘Arab Studies Institute,’ Nov 13, 2018, The Place That Remains: Recounting The Un-Built Territory
(Beirut: The Department of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, 2018), 57-59. Conference Proceedings published in conjunction with the Lebanese Pavilion at the VeniceArchitectural Biennale 2018.
2016 Beirut 2050. fiction short story
Elements for a World: STONE, ed. Ashkan Sepahvand (Beirut: Sursock Museum Publication, 2016), 6-8. Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis” held at the Sursock Museum from July to October 2016.ArteEast The Global Platform for Middle East Arts, ed. by Nora Razian, spring 2017
Guangdong Times Museum online publication. 2017
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Conferences
2025 The materiality of gender expression, FAAP university São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 Solid Waste Machine and Permeable Bodies: Toxicity, Capital and Vulnerability in the Lebanese Waste Crisis. Paper.
Vulnerability, Infrastructure and Displacement Symposium, University College London, June 2019.
Birkbeck Law Review Annual Conference 2019. ‘Dystopias Here and Now: Critical Thought at the End of Time,’ Oct. 2019.
2019 Protective Housing Ecologies: Preliminaries for a Degrowth City. Winning
Entry Proposal.
Housing in Beirut: Towards the Development of the Inclusive City Model, Orders of Engineers and Architects Beirut, April 2019.
Architecture of the Territory, OMRAN forum, Aug 2019.
2016 An Alternative Vision of Dalieh. Winning Entry Proposal.
Sustainability and the City, Beirut Design Week Sustainability Weekend Talks, KED Karantina, May 2016.
Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), 2016.
2012 Re-Framing the City: A Monument of Radical Neutrality. Architecture Thesis Project.
Cities after War: Rebuilding the Past, Projecting the Future, Graduate Urban Design Course URDS631 by Robert Saliba, American University of Beirut, May 2013 and March 2014.
Being a Young Architect in Beirut, AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland 3 Public Events Program, American University of Beirut, April 2012.
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Features / Press
2020 Protective Housing Ecologies: Preliminaries for a Degrowth City. First Prize Winning Entry.
“Affordable Housing Competition,” The City We Need is Affordable, Vol. 4 (2020): 5.
“Protective Housing Ecologies, Mar Mikhael 1st Prize,” Think Housing: The First Competition for Housing Alternatives in Beirut, accessed February 15, 2109.
2016 “Rencontre avec Fadi Mansour,” Interview by Louise Bacquet, Prussian Blue, January 2016.
2016 An Alternative Vision for Dalieh. Winning Entry Proposal.
“Dalieh^n,” The Civil Campaign to Protect The Dalieh of Raouche, accessed 2016.
Christian Sowa, “In Beirut, a group of activists seeks to protect a coastal area by setting up a grassroots design ideas competition,” Archpaper, accessed July 23, 2015.
Public Works Studio, “The Right to the City,” Bidayat, no. 13, (Winter 2016)
2010 Re-Framing the City: A Monument of Radical Neutrality
Sam Jacoby, “Architectural Urbanism: Proposals for the Arab World,” in Urban Design in the Arab World, ed. by Robert Saliba (Beirut: American Universtity of Beirut, 2015), 95-109.
Adrian Lahoud, “Post-Traumatic Urbanism,” Architectural Design Special Issue Post-Traumatic Urbanism, ed. by A. Burke, A. Lahoud and C. Rice. Issue 5, Volume 80 (September/Octobre 2010): 14-23.