PROFILE
Mohamed Sharif is a founding partner of Bureau of Architecture and Design winners of the 2011 Burnham Prize Competition. Sharif joined the faculty in 2011. Previously he taught at schools including his alma mater in Scotland, Rhode Island School of Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His essays and reviews have been published in journals and periodicals including: 306090, arq, Constructs, JAE and Log. He currently serves on the editorial board of arq (Architectural Research Quarterly; Cambridge University Press) and on the advisory board of the LA Forum, where he served as President between 2007 and 2009. Sharif was awarded graduate (with highest distinction and James B Johnston Prize) and undergraduate degrees in architecture from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, Scotland (1993, 1994) and was an exchange student at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago in 1990-91. His undergraduate dissertation "On Venturi and Scott Brown" was awarded a RIBA prize and was retained in its permanent collection in 1993.
EDUCATION
MS in Advanced Architectural Studies, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Post Graduate Diploma (with highest distinction), The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
B Sc (Hons.) Architecture, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
AWARDS
2011 Burnham Prize, Chicago Architectural Club competition: First Place (Bureau for Architecture and Design)
2008, Architecture Department Lecture Hall Competition finalist: RISD, Providence, RI (Sharif Guest Studio)
2004, American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Design Awards: Honor Award
2003, American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter Design Awards: Citation, 2003 (Sharif Guest Studio)
2002, American Institute of Architects/Inland Chapter Design Awards: Honor Award
1999, Boston Society of Architects, Unbuilt Architecture Awards: Honorable Mention, (Sharif Guest Studio)
1999, Urban Design Ideas Competition for the Downtown Arts District, Los Angeles: First Place (Sharif Guest Studio)
1994, James B Johnston Diploma Year Prize, The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen
1993, RIBA Dissertation Prize
