Mohamed Sharif

Mohamed Sharif currently serves as President of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (LA Forum) where has been a member of the board of directors since 2005. Recent LA Forum activities led by Mohamed include the curatorship of Lineweights, a show of recent filament based installations by Predock_Frane Architects (http://www.laforum.org/node/310); and 'Pop Up Storefront Los Angeles' with New York based Storefront for Art and Architecture (http://www.storefrontnews.org/exhib_dete.php?exID=141).
Since the summer of 2008 Mohamed has held the post of Assistant Chair of the Architecture/Landscape/Interiors department at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Otis, Mohamed was an Associate at Koning Eizenberg Architecture in Santa Monica from 2005 to 2008. Between 1997 and 2005 Mohamed worked on numerous award-winning projects for a number of architecture practices, including his own, in the Los Angeles area.
Over the past 15 years Mohamed has taught at various architecture schools including his alma mater in Scotland from 1994 to 1996; California State Polytechnic University Pomona from 2001 to 2004; Woodbury University in 2006 and 2008; and Otis in 2007 and 2008. Mohamed has also taught advanced topic studios and advised undergraduate and graduate thesis projects at Rhode Island School of Design in the academic years of 2007/08 and 2008/09.
Since 1994, Mohamed has edited and published regularly, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He is currently a contributing editor with arq (architectural research quarterly) published by Cambridge University Press.
In 2004 and 2005 Mohamed served as co-chair of the AIA Los Angeles Awards and Exhibitions Committee.
Mohamed received both undergraduate (1993 with honors) and graduate degrees (1994 with highest distinction) in Architecture from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1990 he spent an academic year as an exchange student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

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