On Thursday April the 7th 2011, Mr. H. Melki, FAAD Acting Dean, Dr. JP Asmar, Architecture Department chair and Mr. N. Matta, Design Department chair with a guest speaker Mr. B. Tritch visited the North Campus to meet with the students and discuss issues pertaining to the faculty. After the meeting, the visitors accompanied with instructors and 17 students from the faculty had a trip to old souks of Tripoli where they have visited some of the Mamluk architecture monuments of the city (Khans, Turkish baths and mosques). The trip ended up by visiting Rachid Karami’s fair, one of the important modern architectural monuments in Lebanon and which has been design by the international architect Oscar Niemeyer.