What Can You Do with an Architecture Degree

Professor Mary Jane Rooney is the Head of Architecture at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Her role at Heriot-Watt is to promote excellence across the architecture program in the quality of design, research and thinking that can contribute to a sustainable, resource and energy efficient society. She is a RIBA chartered Architect [RS1] [DR2] and has international experience in Architecture and Design in London. She has studied and worked in Dublin, London, Paris, Rome, India, the UAE and is a qualified architect and urban designer who studied City Design at London School of Economics on the Cities Program (2001).
 
The nexus of her design and research interests are the relationships between architecture, the city, society and pedagogy. Her education has informed her interest in exploring the ways in which critical architecture and design can effectively disrupt normative thinking about the built environment contributing to emerging transformative models and new paradigms.
 
Since coming to Dubai, she has worked on design projects that explore the challenges of the UAE environment and the impact of emerging technologies on the cities and landscapes of UAE.

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