I am an architect with projects in several countries. I studied architectural engineering and hold the LEED Accredited Professional credential. I have lived in three countries and speak five languages.
My interest in technology, programming, finance and other cultures led me to create several apps and to start an archive of places.
Professional experience
My career spans more than ten years in architecture, BIM and digitalization in the AEC industry, between Egypt, Germany and Switzerland. I also program, and have completed courses in Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Revitesse
Architecture and engineering software is built to serve 90 to 95 percent of the market. The remaining 5 to 10 percent is where the work becomes highly specific, and that is where most of the time is lost.
Working in different offices, I met the same problems again and again. Revitesse grew out of the wish to solve them for good, and to help other professionals spend less time on repetitive tasks in Revit.
The archive
I started it after a long time away from my home country. I realized that I had become a citizen of the world: a nomad in time as much as in space, who belonged to each place only at a particular moment. Nostalgia, for me, is conditional, because it refers to a snapshot of a place and a time rather than to a place or a time in general.
James Joyce is said to have asked his aunt to visit a house in Dublin and check whether an overweight man could plausibly climb over its railings. If the city were ever burned to the ground, he wanted it to be possible to rebuild it from Ulysses. The stark imagination of one of the best books ever written in English, together with its precision in describing a detail that may seem trivial, out of honesty towards the reader, is what inspired my archive.