Mais al Azab is a Jordan-based architect and designer whose studio work lies on the borderline between art and architecture. She is interested in site-specific works and is investing in architectural installations as a form of a creative pursuit and an early practice. Her first built design work is a harmonious skyline of a ‘Mirage City’; realized as part of an Angolan artist’s proposition in the desert of Jordan in 2013.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture with first-class honors from Jordan University and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University during which she undertook art studios at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and was a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright award. Her design ideas and works also received rewarding recognition including the Dia al-Azzawi medal for a highly commended Public Art work in 2022, a feature in Venice Design in 2018 and a nomination in 2011 to the James Templeton Kelley Prize for her design project at the studio of the Spanish architect Antón García-Abril.
Prior to working independently, she worked at Sahel al Hiyari Architects and joined a team from Harvard GSD in Qatar to study urban and architectural patterns in the pre-oil Persian Gulf. She lectured about her work at Amity Dubai & Sultan Qaboos University and served as an invited design critic in various architectural schools in Jordan including Petra University, the German Jordanian University and the American University of Madaba.