Ashraf Abdel Mohsen, 1964 | Abstract painter

Dr. Ashraf Abdel Mohsen is an Egyptian artist and futuristic architect who founded founded CUBE Consultants, an architecture studio based in Egypt, in 1990.

Besides running his company, he is also a professor of Architecture at Ain Shams University.

Among the most important achievements would be development of the National Theater development, Khufu Avenue and plaza, the Fustat Open Museum, the New Administrative Capital and finally TUTERA City.

From a young age, he was always the artist in the family has created very intricate paintings and drawings as a young boy with his art featured in magazines and newspapers.

Upon maturing he followed the footsteps of his father by going into the Engineering field and chose to go through with the architecture major.

Ever since he began studying Architecture he always showed skill and competence when it came to creativity and being an advanced visionary in the field.

Many obstacles were faced and stumbles were reconciled but the eyes were always staring at one specific destination, one specific purpose; rebuilding and reimagining the urban development and architecture of Egypt back to its glory.

Being extremely rooted in his Ancient Egyptian heritage, he always manages to implement the real Egyptian spirit into his work whether through the design, concept, or just through the inspiration behind a specific design.

- "I am an architect whose work focusses on the architectural potential of large scale motion and user-transformation of space, with the intent of making the physical environment more engaging and relevant to contemporary society.

I believe that the buildings we shape, shape us. Therefore, we can use our urban and architectural local heritage to shape our values and future development.

Since 1986, when I attended at Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering Department of Architecture (FEDA).

I have been sharing my philosophy with my students on how to have distinctive thoughts viathe language of the future. I am proud that most of my colleagues at Cube were at one time my students. I actually love and believe in them all.

After 25 years of strenuous efforts to convert dreams into reality, I have been fortunate, as an Egyptian architect,in collaboration with a creative team, to navigate through seventhousand years of a great civilization and been able use this heritage to raise the nation’s society level.

This has allowed our society to maintain its superior position worldwide and to restore Egyptian leadership.

I believe that the more we indulge in localization and nationalism the more likely we are to achieve international recognition.

The formation of our houses and our urban architectural environment reflects our community and the future generation. Therefore, architecture is basically a reflection of the society and its development mechanism.

Also, I believe that the quality of architecture could impact on our quality of life.

As we shape our shelters, so we shape our future.

All aspects that have an impact on our quality of life, such as the surrounding environment, health, safety, freedom, all the related positive and negative issues, etc… should lead us to accomplish sustainability, progress and public development.

The future is different and we should recognize how to deal with it, how to communicate and how to write in the future language of architecture.

I work as an Associate Professor of Architecture at AinShamsUniversity. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering.

I have taught Architectural Design, Theories of Architecture, and Computer Applications in Architecture.

My research interests include Architectural Education, and the influence of media and computers on Architectural and Environmental Design.

My professional experience includes work through a wide range of national mega projects.

Also my consultancy firm has worked in joint ventures with many international firms".