Noora Aljabi is an architect and designer with an interest in advancing issues of spatial justice as they relate to the political dimensions of architecture.

Noora has previously worked as a designer at Studio Gang Architects and has taught design studios at the NCSU College of Design in Raleigh and the IIT College of Architecture in Chicago. During her time as a designer at Studio Gang Architects, she worked on a variety of architectural and urbanist projects, including a radical abolitionist community space in Chicago Lawn, a community-directed neighborhood safety initiative in Garfield Park, and a nature-inspired micro-unit hotel in Denver.

Noora is a licensed architect in the state of North Carolina. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky and received her M.Arch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her thesis work on the limits of architectural agency in resisting violence as part of the US Sanctuary Movement was published in the Funambulist 23: Insurgent Architectures.

Contact:

nooraaljabi@gmail.com