El Hadi Jazairy is an architect and partner of Design Earth. He is currently assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses in the architecture and urban design programs. His research investigates spaces of exception A-such as institutional campuses, free zones, and city-states- as predominant forms of contemporary urbanization. El Hadi received a Dipl me d'Architecte from La Cambre in Brussels, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University and a Doctorate of Design from Harvard University. He is a licensed architect at the Belgium National Archi...