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Shahira Hammad is an architect, artist, and designer based in New York, whose work explores the intersections of scent, materiality, and space. Grounded in architecture, her practice investigates how sensory perception shapes our understanding of place through site-specific inquiry, material experimentation, and foraging. She explores how memory and transformation unfold across human and ecological timescales, often bridging the built and natural worlds. One recent project guided visitors through the historical phases of a site in Venice using scent as a medium for spatial storytelling. In addition to her independent work, she contributes to collaborative projects in architecture and exhibition design. Her work has been exhibited internationally at various venues, including Olfactory Art Keller, Outsider Art Fair New York, Plexus Projects, and Gypsum Gallery.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Hide and Seek II, Le Petit Versailles, NY (2025)

Hide and Seek I, AWAI, Venice (2025)

Volatile Derivatives, Olfactory Art Keller, NY (2025)

The Weight of Words Forming in the Mouth, New York Studio School (2024)

Gui/Gooey, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2024)

Poots, Citigroup, New York, NY (2024)

Minimal Scents, Olfactory Art Keller, New York, NY (2023)

Art by Architects, Center for Architecture, New York, NY (2023)

“Nature” Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial/ New York, NY (2019-2020)

ICARCH Architecture Festival/ Hinterland Gallery/ Vienna, Austria (2017)

Paper Trail, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (2017)

Outsider Art Fair New York, NY (2016)

Experimental Architecture Biennial Volume #1, Prague, Czech Republic (2013)

The Essence 12, Vienna Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (2012)


EDUCATION

2012 - Master of Science (dist.) - Excessive Studio, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

2008 - Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (hons.) - AAST, Alexandria, Egypt 


AWARDS

2008

WA Awards, 20+10+X (World Architecture Community)
- First cycle winners
 Marine Research Complex: Cited by the honorary members of WA.
 (www.worldarchitecture.org)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS

2017

Nature Studies
Asemic Forest and Other Natural Wonders by Architect Shahira Hammad

2016

Modelo
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station
Marine Research Complex

2015

Pit, crit
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station
Westbahnhof U-bahn
Marine Research Complex

2014

Asemic forest featured in Highlike Book (printed and launched in December 2014)

2013

Dichotomy Journal, Issue 19:UGLY
(University of Detroit Mercy, School of Architecture)
- Thesis project cited/featured in:
The Elephant Man Under Intensive Care: Aesthetics, Technology, & Architecture

The Hive Mind Magazine
Contributed and featured in issue 01 “Forgotton Landscapes”.

2012

evolo magazine
Asemic Forest - Spontaneous Order and Architecture

suckerpunch
Asemic Forest

designboom
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station

arch2o
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station
Westbahnhof U-bahn
Marine Research Complex

3d dreaming
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station

anonymous.d
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station

The Pop up City
Asemic Forest - The Decaying Decadence of Vienna’s New Train Station

Weburbanist
Asemic Forest - Urban Train Station Infiltrated by the Spontaneous Order of Nature

Futureplus
Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station

ASK Magazine (print)
Asemic Forest featured in December 2012 issue.

SUPER ARCHITECTS
Thesis Special - Asemic Forest - Westbahnhof Train Station

Localflux
Interview - Spontaniety and Afterthought




© SHAHIRA HAMMAD, 2025