Women's spaces in the vernacular Qatari courtyard house: how privacy and gendered spatial segregation shape architectural identity Available to Purchase

Asmaa AL-Mohannadi is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, in the College of Engineering at Qatar University. She is now conducting research on housing in Qatar and in the GCC region, and has professional experience as an architect in campus facilities. Asmaa is the main author of academic papers exploring the spatial culture of housing in Qatar through the use of spatial analysis and Space Syntax. She holds a Master's degree in Urban Design and Planning from Qatar University, where the external examiner cited her Master's thesis as “excellent” in relation to international standards for research in the built environment.

Raffaello Furlan holds a Master's degree from IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and a PhD in Architecture from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He has held visiting and permanent academic positions at the University of Queensland and Griffith University in Australia and at the Canadian University of Dubai in the UAE. He has approximately 20 years of experience in practice in Italy, Australia, the UAE and the State of Qatar, where he has been involved in managing design concepts, documentation, construction and supervision of residential and commercial developments from inception through to completion. This includes planning, estimation, client/consultant/contractor interactions and site inspection services. He served as the Graduate Program Coordinator from 2018 to 2021 and he is currently serving as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (DAUP) at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. Dr Furlan has been engaged as a principal investigator in research projects funded by QNRF and Qatar University, with a focus on Urban Sociology, Urban Regeneration, Sustainable Urbanism and Vernacular Architecture. He has participated in many regional and international conferences and has published numerous research papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters.

Michael Grosvald completed his Master's degree in Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD in Linguistics at University of California at Davis, both in the US. He has teaching, research and business experience in the US, Europe (Germany and the Czech Republic, 5 years), East Asia (Taiwan, 1 year), and the Middle East (Qatar, 8 years). He currently serves as Associate Professor at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar.