Hala Nasr

Landscape Architect | Architect | Researcher | Educator

I started my practice as a way of understanding land beyond what is immediately visible. To me, landscape is not only a physical condition, but something shaped by memory, cultural systems, and the ways humans and non-humans move through and interpret place over time.

I am interested in how these layers accumulate, overlap, and sometimes disappear within the same landscape. My work focuses on revealing and reinterpreting these conditions through spatial, written, and built forms. These modes are not separate disciplines but different ways of approaching the same question: what is already embedded in a site and how it can be read differently.

I approach land as a narrative medium. Each site contains traces of use, history, and omission. I work with these traces, translating them into spatial experiences, written investigations, or interventions that remain grounded in context.

My practice spans scales and geographies, including work across the United Arab Emirates, the Arabian Peninsula, the United States, and the Caribbean. It engages adaptive reuse, waterfront resilience, public realm design, cultural institutions, and new urban developments. I hold a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the College of Architecture, Art, and Design at the American University of Sharjah.

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