FORM, Sweden, June 2005, p.52.
"Vad ar svensk design?".

Ayssar Arida: An Edge is Not a Border, interviewed by Maja Lovrenovic / Shizofrenia Culturalis, in Podroom, Sarajevo, Issue 1, May 2004.

Ayassar Arida: "Intuicao Consegue Construir Melhores Cidades", interviewed by Carlos Sant'Ana, in Architectura e Vida, Lisbon, Jan 2004, pp. 60-63. (in Portuguese).

Annahar Cultural Review, Beirut, 22 Feb 2003.

Architects Journal, London, 13 Feb 2003 (see also 20 Feb 2003).

RUDI, 2003.

Deco Magazine, Dec 2002/Mar 2003, no. 11, p.12.

Quantum City: la théorie des quanta et le développement de la ville du XXIe siècle, par Ayssar Arida, by May Makarem, in L’Orient-LeJour daily, Lebanon, 19 Sep 2002.

We built this city… with quantum mechanics, by Kristel Halter, in The Daily Star, Lebanon, 23 Aug 2002, p.10.

Le Dialogue des Cultures, interviewed by Jean-Luc Vannier, for NBN television, 19 July 2002.

Amazon etc online collected reviews

Google search for ayssar arida

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Essays & Articles & Letters

META.morphoses: at ARCO 06, exhibition, International Fair for Contemporary Art (ARCO), Madrid, Spain, 9-13 Feb 2006 .
"Mimesis: Quameleon" [pdf]

META.morphoses: new architectural outlines for a 21st century art museum, exhibition, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain, Feb-Apr 2006 .
"Quameleon: territorial pissings in the society-space-time continuum" [pdf]

LiveLanguage,org, online podcast, 23.10.2005.
"Designers in the Age of Fear" recorded on: Sep 16 11h30 - 13h30, Lisbon, with Talk Host: John Thackara, Talkers: Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, and interventions from Stefano Casciani (Domus); Kieran Long (Icon); Lucy Bullivant; Ricardo Carvalho; Jacopo Crivelli Visconti; Helena Roseta [PT]; and Colin Davies [UK];

OutsideEdge, e-journal #03, May 2005.
Street Manifestos issue,
"Sum over histories or the Garden of Forking Paths"

Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, E-journal vol. 1 n. 4,pp. 147-151. www.wickedness.net, March 2004.
"The Whole in the Part, the Hole in the Part" [pdf]

Memory & Creation, www.111101.net newsletter, #09, Nov 2003.
"Therapeutic Urbanism?" (with M. Stanton).

Memory & Creation, www.111101.net newsletter, #09, Nov 2003.
"MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut"

Archis, Netherlands, #4, 2003, pp.60-68.
"Therapeutic Urbanism?" (with M. Stanton).

One for All - OXO One-Pot Cookbook, Katia Hadidian (ed.), TANK Publications, London, June 2003, p.102.
"One-Pot Cities".

Architectural Review, London, June 2003, p.30.
"Architecture in the New Paradigm": a response to Charles Jencks' "The New Paradigm in Architecture", (published version: here, see also here, and a related comment here).

Impressions (British Airways Inflight Magazine), March 2003.
"Sifting through the chaos, a (brief) manual for navigating the streets of Beirut".

Architects' Journal, London, 20 Feb 2003, p.17.
"Reviewer Misses Point of Quantum City Reality", (published letter).

Guardian Friday Review, London, 21 Feb 2003.
"RE: Filming Keenan's Ordeal", (published letter).

Lebanon Opportunities, 8 real estate articles published between Feb 1999 and June 2001.

Featured Design Work, Installations & Exhibitions

Architectural Review, London, March 2006, p.30.
Doha Gardens: MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2006, Best Masterplanned Community Project and Overall Winner.

Orchitecture 0.9 , Chiswick House, London, 24-25 Sep 2005. A Center for the Spatial Realm (CSR) project with Thor McB & the NLO.

Vickyh destinations, Exhibition & Book signing, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct-Nov 2004.

RIBA Journal, London, June 2003, p.9.

The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2003, "The Grand Egyptian Museum" June-Aug 2003.

The Grand Egyptian Museum International Architecture Competition (Distinctive Entry), Cairo, Egypt. Tbp 2003. (with K.Hoey)

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design, by Bob Giddings & Margaret Horne, Spon Press, hardcover, Jan 2002, p.171 [ pdf ]. ISBN: 0419262008

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design, by Bob Giddings & Margaret Horne, Spon Press, softcover, Dec 2001, p.141 [ pdf ]. ISBN: 0419236007

Marijin Dvor District International Urban Design Competition Catalogue (Finalist), Sarajevo, March 2001. (with M. Stanton)

Film & Photography

How to Get Lost in Beirut (photo credits), by Kris Kenway , in Sleazenation, London, July 2003, pp. 43-49.

Terra Incognita, dir. Ghassan Salhab, prod. Agat Films, France, 2001. Consultant & special effects designer & producer for the virtual city. ‘Un Certain Regard' Official Selection for Cannes 2002 international film festival.

On realism & the observer (photo credits), by Michael Stanton, in Archis Magazine, Netherlands, Sept 2000, pp. 51-54.

Talks & Academic Lectures & Publications

In the Realm of the Senses Cross-College Lecture Series, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, 27 Feb 2006 .
"Architecture and Sound, Cityness and Waves"

Experimenta Design 2005, Bienal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 Sep 2005 .
OPEN TALKS: City & Architecture
Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, hosted by John Thackara ( see also Doors of Perception ).

The Planned City? ISUF International Conference (refereed), Trani, Italy, 3-6 July 2003.
"The 70-Year Itch or the Dawn of the Quantum City"
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference, A. Petruccioli et al (ed.), Trani, 2003, vol.3, p.1006.

The Planned City? ISUF International Conference (refereed), Trani, Italy, 3-6 July 2003.
"Memory Between Amnesia & Trauma: an urban proposal for the Marijin Dvor district, Sarajevo, B&H."
(with M. Stanton). Published in Proceedings of the International Conference, A. Petruccioli et al (ed.), Trani, 2003, vol.3, p.956.

Subtle Technologies Conference (selected presenter), Toronto, Canada, 23-25 May 2003.

(Theorising) History in Architecture and Design Conference (refereed: abstract), Oslo, Norway, 25-27 April 2003.
"The 70-Year Itch or the Dawn of the Quantum City"
Published in CON.TEXT, Elisabeth Tostrup & Christian Hermansen (ed.), Oslo, 2003, p.201.

Cities on the Edge international conference (invited keynote speaker), Melbourne, Australia, [ pdf ] 9-11 Oct 2002.

Quantum City (author), Architectural Press, Oxford, UK, May 2002. ISBN 0750650125.

Layla Shamash's the Leading Edge lecture series (public lecture), Oxford Brookes University, UK, Feb 2002.
"The New Language of the Quantum City".

Quantum Everything? (public lecture), Notre-Dame University, Dept. of Architecture, Lebanon, May 2001.

SHAMS Festival for the Arts (keynote speaker), Beirut, Lebanon, April 2001.
"MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut", Arabic version.

Random Access Memory (joint course leader), Advanced Architecture Design Studio, American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, Spring 2000.

Overlaps: The Interactive Edge (joint course leader), Advanced Architecture Design Studio, American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, Fall 2000.

My Rights to My City international symposium & workshop (keynote speaker), Alexandria, Egypt, Oct 2000.
"MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut", English version.

Thinking the City in the Post-Cartesian Paradigm (public lecture), American University of Beirut, Architecture Department, April 2000.

URBAN DESIGN International, Vol. 3 No. 3 Sept 1998, Routledge, UK.
"Quantum Environments: Thesis conclusions"

Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI), Sept 1998, www.rudi.net.
"Quantum Environments"

Quantum Environments: Urban Design in the Post-Cartesian Paradigm (MA Thesis), JCUD - OBU, Sept 1998. Received Distinction and highest grade ever awarded at Oxford Brookes, became basis for book Quantum City.

Interactive Morphologies: Landscape as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration & Development (Diploma Thesis, co-author), OBU, March 1998.

Past.Souks.Future (B.Arch Thesis, co-author), American University of Beirut, March 1994.