Farah Alkhoury is an Iraqi architect, researcher, and educator based in New York. Her work deals with environmental, state, and cooperate violence as a consequential form of architecture and spatial thinking. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Sharjah and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, GSAPP.

Farah contributed to various exhibitions and publications. Notably, she played an integral role in the Sharjah Architecture Triennale’s inaugural exhibition, through her role in research, coordination, and design. More recently, she collaborated with Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation on the research project “Xholobeni Yard” for the Venice Architecture Biennale. Farah actively engages in teaching and design research, she served as a teaching associate and research scholar at GSAPP, Columbia University, and as a Part-Time lecturer in design at Rutgers University. Farah received the Honors Award for Excellence in advanced architectural design and the William Kinne fellowship from GSAPP. She was also nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Farah advocates for collective voices for political, social, and environmental accountability, she was the co-founder of Bites of Architecture, a platform for inquiry on politics and space in the MENASA region.

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