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About
Between Inventory and Memory: The Abandoned Cinema
Cultural Artifacts and Collective Memory: The Case of Cinema al-Khayyam
Building for the Municipal Art Society of New York (MASNYC)
Eco Folly: The Wasp and the Orchid
A Column-for-a-column, a Screen-for-a-screen
   © Rand Abu Al Shar 2025

 Rand Abu Al-Sha’r is a Jordanian-Palestinian architect and designer currently based in Amman, Jordan.

She holds a Master of Architecture (MArch) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Zaha Hadid Fellowship. During her time at Harvard, she also served as a teaching fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA). She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies and English from Mount Holyoke College, graduating magna cum laude and receiving the Goldstein Spiro Award for Architecture.

Rand’s work spans architectural design, research, and cultural inquiry. Most recently, she practiced at a Brooklyn-based firm, where she managed the renovation of a high-end aging-in-place residence. Alongside her professional work, she has been researching the afterlives of abandoned movie theaters in Amman, exploring how their readoption might enable new modes of collectivity in the city.

This site highlights recent work and ongoing research.

Feel free to get in touch :randabualshar@gmail.com
03. Building for the Municipal Art Society of New York (MASNYC)
Harvard GSD
MArch Design Studio 2020Instructor: Grace La

Proposed headquarters for MASNYC connect office and public space through a series of “respite rooms,” drawing on spatial ideas around periphery from Exeter Library and responding to the surrounding fabric of the adjacent Washington Square Park. The building’s circulation weaves solitude and social encounters together, allowing moments of retreat and connection to emerge within a continuous, meandering sequence.
1/4    Section Perspective
2/4    Ground Floor Plan
3/4    First Floor Plan
4/4    Fifth Floor Plan