Christine Mady is as Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, FAAD, and contributes to courses within the Masters in Design Program. Christine has professional experience in architecture and urban planning in Lebanon and abroad. She has extended her knowledge on the built environment through pursuing her postgraduate studies in infrastructure,  city and regional planning. She received the Werner von Siemens 2007 Excellence Award for the Masters research study on rehabilitating land-mined territories and promoting sustainable approach to natural and cultural heritage within the Marja’ayoun Governorate in south Lebanon. Her PhD research on temporary public spaces has been discussed in various international conferences and is currently being prepared for publication.
Her areas of expertise covered planning practice, inclusive design and planning, planning for the enhancement of natural and cultural heritage, and public spaces within the built environment. Her research interests include environmental issues in urban planning, design and planning of open urban spaces, property rights and public spaces, participatory approaches in the delivery of public spaces, and sustainable urban regeneration strategies with a focus on the public realm.
She has participated in numerous architecture and urban planning international conferences since 1999, and presented papers on various topics. She has been an associate tutor for the Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in urban planning at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. Since her return to Lebanon, she has been a lecturer at USEK, ALBA and NDU between 2010 and 2011 along with her role as an urban planning consultant at Khatib & Alami C.E.C. Her involvement in both academia and professional practice have enabled her to deliver lectures, design studios, workshops and training to students as well as professionals in the design and planning disciplines. She encourages a participatory approach and hands-on learning that focuses on contemporary issues.
She is a member of the Scientific Committee for the First International Conference on Infrastructure Planning, Stuttgart (28 Sept–1 Oct). She is a referee for the journal International Planning Studies and the Qualitative Researcher journal. She has co-organised a panel on the urban design dimension of gated communities for the 5th International Conference of the Research Network on Private Urban Governance and Gated communities and the International Student workshop on port-city regeneration at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University

Ph.D., School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom, 2010.

Masters of Infrastructure Planning (MIP), Centre for Infrastructure Planning, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2005

B. Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 1997

Conference Proceedings

Mady, C. (2010) Void Matters: Temporary Urban Spaces in Beirut.  The 24th AESOP Conference, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 151-162.

Mady, C. (2009). Review of Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World. Roger Zetter & Georgia Butina Watson (Eds) Aldershot, Burlington, Ashgate, 2006. International Planning Studies 14(1) pp. 99-107.

Mady, C. (2008). Review of What Makes a City? Planning for ‘Quality of Place’. The Case of High-Speed Train Station Area Redevelopment by Jan Jacob Trip (Ed.) Amsterdam, IOS Press BV, Delft University Press, 2007. International Planning Studies 13(1) pp. 75-84.