Founded and directed by Iman Fayyad, project:if is an award-winning design research practice that experiments with techniques of geometry across scales, subjects, and media. The work is centered on the relationship between flatness and three-dimensional form; it celebrates projective systems as they relate tectonic and material expressions of space to modes of inhabitation, cognitive perception, and the political domain of architecture. Equally invested in open-ended research and practice, the work values the speculative and theoretical as venues to continually question the boundaries of design within its cultural and historical context.
Iman Fayyad is a designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University. Her independent and collaborative work has been published and exhibited in Log, Pidgin, Archinect, PLOT, Rumor, Yale Architecture Gallery, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Roca Gallery in London. Fayyad holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT and a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects Certificate of Merit, Faculty Design Award, and the Araldo A. Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence.