FAWAD SUHAIL ABBASI, AIA
AIA International Region Country Representative - Pakistan
SUHAIL & FAWAD ARCHITECTS
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Fawad is an award-winning architect from Pakistan and has been practicing for over 20 years with diverse projects across the country. He Co-founded Suhail & Fawad Architects with his father, the eminent architect Suhail A. Abbasi in the year 2000. They are both regionalists at heart and have won multiple awards and recognitions for their simple, bold and contextual design approach which is evident in all the work produced by their firm. They have been invited to speak on many international platforms and their work has been published in Architecture Asia, World Architecture Community (WAC) News, Archi Times, A+I, ADA, Next 100 and many others.
Fawad won his first National Award in 2009 for Excellence in Architectural Design followed by Honorable Mentions for Architectural Design Excellence in 2013-2014, 2016-2017, 2022 and multiple other recognitions since 2005 from the Institute of Architects Pakistan while two of his projects were recently shortlisted for ADA Awards in 2023.
He is the first Pakistani to be elected as the founding Chairman of ACYA (ARCASIA Committee on Young Architects) Architects Regional Council Asia, 2015-2016 and UIA Regional Representative, Region IV, Young Architects Work Program, International Union of Architects in 2016. He became an Associate of the Institute of Architects Pakistan in 2004 and served as Chairman of the Rawalpindi- Islamabad Chapter from 2011-2013. He was elected to the Executive Committee, as Member Architecture in PCATP, Pakistan Council of Architects & Town Planners, 2010-2011 before being elected to the National Council of IAP where he served as Vice President IAP for a three-year erm, 2016-2019.
He has in a short span created a design philosophy that defines his design journey. Each project tells a story, it emphasises his learning from the maestro, his father, who has influenced him greatly. His architecture is poetic, extremely local and shows how he celebrates nature, the environment and the local crafts. Their studio has for over a decade been contributing their time to corporate social responsibility projects with Behbud Association of Pakistan, Hawwa Crafts, Pakistan Sweet Home and others, a cause which is very close to the father/son duo. In this process they formally adopted a barren area across their home/office in 2022 and transformed it to a neighborhood park which they have managed since. They have designed, donated trees, benches, signage, lights, dustbins, bird houses, tensile fabric structures, National Flag podium and in the recent past started a learning center for under privileged children run and maintained by them with the help of friends of the park.
He is a member of PIID, Pakistan Institute of Interior Designers, PGBC Pakistan Green Building Council, Pakistan HVACR Society and an Int’l Associate of AIA, the American Institute of Architects. He is the Founding Member of EAROPH Pakistan & currently holds the position of Vice President EAROPH International, Eastern Regional Organization for Planning & Human Settlements. He is the Immediate Past Chairman, Institute of Architects Pakistan Rawalpindi- Islamabad Chapter 2022-2023.
