PADX ARCHITECTURE

PAD ¹⁰  Architects + Designers , an  internationally award-winning  architecture+design firm, hosts creative minds in the fields of architecture and graphic design. Our cross-disciplinary practice emerges from a belief that spatial and visual communications operate in unison rather than in mutually exclusive spheres. Our international setup – with  PAD ^x  Paris, PAD ⁷  Beirut and PAD ¹⁰  Kuwait – is backed-up with team-centric BIM (Building Information Modelling) technology, and Cloud file sharing system, to ensure optimal collaboration among different team members. Our offices are professionally licensed architectural practices in Paris and Beirut, with project management setup in Kuwait.

Our core belief is that each project and client are distinct in the challenges they pose, leading to unique interpretations and breeding inimitability to the project's program and form. A rigorous understanding of the cultural surroundings, the political makeup, the economic infrastructure, the social superstructure, the programmatic pragmatics, and the client's agenda form the framework within which the project is generated, with multiple iterations at work. Our underlying omnipresent agenda is for Architecture to operate beyond its bounds, as it is one with its social and urban surroundings; it shall act as an  urban catalyst  and  social enabler.

The projects, from small scale logotypes to large scale masterplans, share a rigorous process and dialogue with the client, interpreted into a unique experience that holds prejudice towards no criteria, except that of expected formalism.

PAD ¹⁰  engagement with its surroundings through participating in pro-bono design works, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and publications tune its professional practice with a critical outlook.

PAD ¹⁰  cultural insight on the milieu it operates in, is documented by the 'the Kulture Files ', a pamphlet it curates and circulates.

Recently, PAD¹⁰ was awarded a Merit Award from the AIA (American Institute of Architects) ME Chapter for Built-Work Chalet-66, was the only MENA region design architect to be awarded and qualify to Stage 2, as one of the 10 finalists, in an anonymous international competition for KFAS New Headquarters in Kuwait, organized by Phase Eins – Berlin, and was shortlisted for North Design Union HQ in China. PAD¹⁰ is contributor to the Venice Biennale 2016 ‘Reporting from the Front’.

About the Founder

Mr. Moujaes is the recipient of ‘Architects of Healing’ Presidential Citation by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors, for his role in the design of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum in New York City, the Young Architects Forum Award, and the Emerging Voices by The Architectural League of New York.

Mr. Moujaes conducted a workshop, in collaboration with NCCAL (National Council for Culture Arts and Letters), Docomomo International, and Docomomo Kuwait on Kuwait Modern Heritage. He taught research and design studios on DisOrientalism, an architectural design studio with cultural focus on the Arab world at Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, and Rensselaer (RPI) School of Architecture. He has served as an architectural/design critic at AUK (American University of Kuwait), Kuwait University, PennDesign, Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton, and RISD. He spoke at TEDxUniversityofBalamand, debated at Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah, and lectured at AAVS Kuwait, NCCAL, ACK, YourAOK, The Architectural League of New York, the CCA (Centre Canadien d’Architecture), Monterrey Symposium in Mexico, Milan Triennale in Italy, and the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. Mr. Moujaes has served as jury member on The Architectural League of New York’s 2006 Young Architects’ Forum themed Instability; and for the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Architecture/ Environmental Structures. He has exhibited at The Artists Space in New York City and participated in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center and MoMA in New York City.

His work has been widely published. Projects and interviews have been featured in ArchDaily, Archinect, Volume Magazine, Architectural Record, Metropolis Magazine, Praxis, The Architect’s Newspaper, The New York Times, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Japan Architect, Bidoun Magazine, Khaleejesque, Interior Design Magazine, and World Architecture.

His multidisciplinary early formation with Nadim Karam and Atelier Hapsitus included working on urban art installations at the National Museum in Beirut – Lebanon and Manes Bridge in Prague – Czech Republic, the graphic design for multiple art catalogues including Manes Bridge, Serpentine Gallery, and Voyage; a 400 page publication by Booth-Clibborn Editions.

He interned at Massimilian Fuksas Architetti in Rome – Italy and Rikken Yamamoto and Fieldshop in Yokohama – Japan.

Mr. Moujaes received his Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1996,  winning an Areen Award for Excellence in Design , his Master's degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute for Architecture in 1999, and his EMBA from AUB in 2021.

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