Our Team

ALGORITHM’s FOUNDER

MOSTAFA RABEA

CEO, FOUNDER

Architect, assistant professor and parametric designer. the curator of the Pavilion of Egypt in Venice international Biennale of Architecture 2020. He has experience in both academia and practice since 2002. He is also worldwide parametric design instructor. From 2013 up to date, he organized many workshops in Egypt, Lebanon, Spain and Italy. In 2017, he won the first prize of an international competition organized by UNIDO- United Nation Industrial Development Organization for designing and executing a parametric outdoor family urban seating zone in North Lebanon.2019 in Rome, he designed and executed a parametric interior zone inside faculty of Engineering at Sapienza University. This zone has bookshelves and seats for students and staff to read. 2015 up to now, he is an assistant professor in Beirut Arab University.

OUR TEAM

RIAD AL-HALABY

Architect, Representative in Lebanon

Architect, one of “Designers & Architect ” company team and Trainer for different architectural software’s. Participant in different workshops locally and internationally. Winning Second place at La Sapienza university workshop for designing a pavilion in 2016, first prize at (AWKAF) competition concerned by designing a hospital and comprehensive school in north Lebanon in 2018, First award at the Grand Serail Creativity Hub competition with IDEAS, launched to design a Co-working space in 2019 and Winning the pavilion proposal to present Egypt in “Venice Biennale 2020” The Blessed Fragments.

Amr AboElsoud

Egyptian Branch Cofounder

An Egyptian architect & designer . He has excellent experience at building construction especially in finishing of high luxury residential & commercial buildings. As a freelance contractor & project coordinator & quality control at ART OF FORM company , he performed good quality projects. He is an Autodesk certified user (AutoCAD & Revit ).

MARCO DE PETRIS

Architect, Representative in Italy

Marco De Petris is an Italian licensed architect with a digital fabrication background. With five years of experience in projects at different scale and stages, in last two years implemented his international experience working like QA/QC architect and architectural designer at several projects (specially DD and CD stages) at Studio Fuksas.

AMR ALLAM

Architect and Artist

A side from being an Architect and a designer, Amr is a gifted artist as well. Known as  The doodle art, zentangles and line work is the art he enjoys creating. He came in 1st place in 2014 Redbull doodle art competition, where he went on to represent Egypt in the global gallery in cape town, SA. In 2016, he won 1st place, again, in Starbucks’ creative cup design competition. He didn’t stop there. In 2019, he won the pavilion proposal “The Blessed Fragments”, allowing him, with a team, to present Egypt in “Venice Biennale 2020”.

AHMED ESSAM

Model Maker

Architect and models maker, founder of FAB LAB MODELS MAKER 6th October brunch for digital fabrication, founder of ArchiStores for Models components. Within the last 5 years, he experienced at architecture models making and miniatures technique. He made a model for Elfanarat international school at new capital and for October University for modern science and arts camps. He got an honorable journal article (Elyom elsabea) for the great quality of the models making two times.

Raed Shalak

Architect

Architect, Engrossed in Conceptual Design & Architectural Theories. Autodesk Certified User (3Ds Max, AutoCad). 2019 Grand Serail Creativity Hub Design Competition (1st Place, Lebanon). Regional Trainee for FIFA & Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (Road to 2022, Qatar). 2018 RIBA Norman Foster Scholarship Competition (University Representative). 2016 Student Internship, Algorithmic Solutions Software, (University of Sapienza, Italy). Production Team Member, Autodesk Dynamo Studio (RobArch2016, Australia). Architectural Intern, Delcam PowerMILL Robot Software (University of Sydney, Australia).

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OMAR ALASSOURA

Architect, Representative in Syria

He insisted on studying architecture and dedicated his life to him despite the difficulties he experienced, Omar received a grant from “LASER” (lebanese scholar education and research) to complete his studies due to his academic excellence, and he has just finished the first part of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ certificate. Interested in Parametric architecture and Architectural design optimization (ADO).

MOSTAFA MAGDY

Architect

Mostafa is a multidisciplinary Architect who has passion for all Design fields. Focusing on finding relation between vernacular aspects of design and modern technologies, utilizing parametric design and traditional design language, worked on different design firms in Egypt, as well as a teaching assistant at AASTMT & MSA universities, moreover he was involved in Rome summer school in 2016.

Moussa Yahya Belok

Social Media MGR. in Middle EAST

Moussa is expert in social media in the Middle East and has a law background.A skilled communicator and an experienced manager worked in many companies, as a senior consultant such as in “smarta” a company for selling electronics for smart houses, and in a company called “Fidelity”.
Participated in various workshops, such as in Order of Engineers and Architect in Tripoli. Moussa have multitasking skills and could lead a team work.

COLLABORATORS

ARTURO TEDESCHI

Computational designer

Arturo Tedeschi is an architect and computational design specialist with more of ten years of experience in the avant-garde segment of architecture and industrial design (furniture, automotive, installations, products, footwear). He works as a consultant for leading companies, providing services and training related to algorithmic modeling, complex geometry, digital fabrication and data driven design. He is the author of Parametric Architecture with Grasshopper and AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. He taught and was an invited speaker at Architectural Association School (London), Politecnico di Milano, IUAV (Venice), The University of Sydney, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, University of Edinburgh, Universidad Europea (Madrid). His personal work has been featured on international magazines and exhibited worldwide. He has collaborated with major architecture and design firms, including Zaha Hadid Architects and Ross Lovegrove.

ALY MAGDY

Architect

Architect, was awarded Erasmus plus scholarship for his masters in parametric design at Staffordshire University in the UK with the collaboration of Alexandria University in Egypt, researcher and teaching assistant at the American university in Cairo. In Addition to that, he participated in the AA Visiting School in Madrid in 2013. Also, he was involved in Algoritm as an assistant at the Rome summer school in 2016, and 2017 and 2019. Last but not least, he introduced the parametric design to multiple international universities and to the public at TedxYouth@Alexandria in 2016.

ROBERTO COGNOLI

Architect

Architect. PhD fellow at the school of architecture and design SAAD Unicam – Ascoli Piceno. Postgraduate specialization in Environmental Technological Design at Sapienza University of Rome, finalist at Archiprix International Chile 2019 with the master degree thesis Temporary City – the geography of waiting. Collaborate with Keio University – Japan in the project AAT- Digital fabrication for common people. Focuses his research in parametric design and digital fabrication and robotic construction.

MAURIZIO A. DEGNI

Computational Designer

Computational designer. Specialist in the field of energy and environmental analysis related to complex systems focus on parametric and optimization strategies. He worked for several offices in Italy such as Studio Kami and J.M. Schivo. He is currently involved in a series of parametric design workshops in Italy, directed by Arturo Tedeschi, including the AA Rome Visiting School.

ALESSANDRO ZAMPIERI

Architect

He specializes in the development of sustainable products, the first work experiences consolidate this background with the collaboration in design studies and environmental consultancy, while continuing to nourish the most creative aspects of his personality, during experiences abroad and collaborations with design studios, makerspace, it carries on in parallel the work experience in the “environmental industry” field by coming into contact with various waste management company and the related matters. He became co-founder of the Roma Makers network and the first fablab in. He deals with training and dissemination in the field of digital manufacturing and is Co-founder of Fabfactory in which he brings the eclectic professional experiences gained in previous years, in design, business consultancy and in the environmental field. Today Fabfactory offers exclusive digital manufacturing and design services. Every day he invents, discovers, and creates solutions to meet the needs of his customers, with an approach aimed at constant experimentation and research in an endless path.

CHIRAG RANGHOLIA

Architect

Chirag is an architect, after being involved with investigating the inter-relation of Architecture with Society and Media during his formative education years at CEPT University, Ahmadabad, India. He furthered his interest through developing interdisciplinary skills of territorial, architectural and algorithmic designs at IAAC(Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), Barcelona, Spain, where he focused on computational design and emergent technologies, followed by expertise in digital tools and advanced manufacturing technologies by graduating Fab Academy (Course by MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms) from FAB LAB Barcelona, Spain. Since 2014, He is a founding partner of Noumena; a multidisciplinary tech company implementing innovative solutions in the fields of Robotics, 3D printing, and Wearable Tech in Barcelona, Spain, followed by RESHAPE – digital craft community and NERO | Networking Environmental Robotics. He has also been a tutor at IAAC-Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia(Spain), Fab Academy(Spain & Italy), CEPT(India), VMCA(India), TDV(India), BNCA(India). Now, he is also setting up D3LAB | Digital Design Dimensions in India curated by Noumena; an applied innovation design lab for architecture practice in India.