Profile

Architect.
Teacher.
Designer.

I work across buildings, interiors, objects, exhibitions and visual communication. My projects include homes, dental clinics, shared workplaces and proposals for housing and public buildings, alongside furniture, publications and exhibition installations. My contributions span concept design, drawings and models through to construction and site supervision.

I am interested in how spaces adapt to everyday use: a sliding screen that connects a home and studio, a modular frame that combines storage and display, or timber panels that fold for transport. Working at these different scales brings questions of materials, assembly and use into the same design process.

I hold a Master of Science in Advanced Architecture and Design from Columbia University GSAPP (2018), and a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut. I have worked in Beirut, New York and Nepal.

obacho@gmail.com

Practice

From a building
down to its finest details

Sliding screens, modular frames and folding joints recur across my work. Each answers a practical question: how a space can change, how an object is assembled, or how materials meet.

Explore my projects

Architecture & interiors

I have developed homes, workplaces and clinics with teams including Twig Collaborative, by fiveten and Amara. Each project credits the studio and collaborators, alongside my contribution.

Interiors

Objects & making

My work with objects explores timber, offcuts and assembly. Thing — Flatpack folds into separate panels for transport and was exhibited at Dutch Design Week in 2022.

Thing — Flatpack

Exhibitions & visual work

I have worked on exhibitions for Afaf Zurayk, including Shifting Lights at Beit Beirut and Return Journeys at Saleh Barakat Gallery. My portfolio also includes publications, graphics and academic research.

Exhibitions & graphics

Education & teaching

I studied architecture at the American University of Beirut before completing my master’s at Columbia GSAPP in 2018. I have also taught at AUB.

Portfolio editionsOmar Bacho · 2024 Amara · 2024