Background

Places of ARcture was founded by Muhammad Achour, an architect who grew up in Aleppo, Syria, where he got his bachelor’s degree in architecture then worked there as a teaching assistant before relocating to Dublin. During his masters studies at UCD in 2016 he fell in love with the idea of community engagement and the search for making better cities, so he founded Places of ARcture which aims to engage local communities with art and architecture. The Syria Architect Art Exhibition was the first event he organized as director of Places of ARcture during DCU refugee week. The second one was a children’s workshop “Play in Architecture”, teaching kids design principles through play in collaboration with timi tenczler at the rediscovery centre, Dublin. On 2020, with the help or volunteers’ artists and architects, he directed and hosted a serious of online events as part of the London festival of Architecture, Digital Program June 2020. delivered a session about architecture for 6th grade class during the Intercultural day at Griffith Barrack’s National School, Dublin. Presented ideas of Rebuilding Syria through a workshop at DCU during the University of Sanctuary Refugee Week event.