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 has been 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 HEAR Baghdad 2025; the inaugural edition of the Arab Architecture Festival, Sultan Qaboos University and Amity Dubai. Additionally, she 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.