Dr  Magda Sibley - Personal details

Role: Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies

Email: magda.sibley@manchester.ac.uk

Tel: 0161 275-0316

Location: Humanities Bridgeford Street-1.14
School of Environment and Development
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Environment and Development

Dr Magda Sibley is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture. She joined the University of Manchester in January 2010after having spent eight years at the School of Architecture of the University of Liverpool as a lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer.

Dr Sibley graduated as an Architect from the School of Architecture in Algiers and is an affiliated member of the RIBA. She obtained her PhD in Architecture from the University of Sheffield and has been in academia for the last 16 years. She has had various academic and research responsibilities and directed the BA Architecture programme at the University of Liverpool.Dr Sibley has been teaching design studio at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as teaching History and Theory of Architecture. She has delivered guest lectures in Schools of Architecture in France, Egypt, Kuwait, Algeria, Syria and the UAE.

Dr.Sibley is the coordinator of research led teaching into the architectural programme at Manchester School of Architecture, linking ongoing research projects in MARC to the agenda of the design studio. She leads the “Architecture as Urban Catalyst” BArch Design Unit examining the relationship between current social, environmental and cultural issues and the built environment at both urban and architectural scales, locally and internationally. She is supervising research projects in the areas of Heritage led sustainable urban regeneration, Urban and architectural transformations in the cities of North Africa and the Middle East, Contemporary interpretations of high density low energy courtyard housing, Bio-climatic architecture and Eco-tourism. She has been a member of the scientific committee and chair of sessions at various international conferences. She has recently completed a detailed survey of the surviving historic hammams (public baths) located in the historic core of Damascus, Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Fez and Marrakech as the Principal Investigator of a large Arts and Humanities research grant.

Dr Sibley is fluent in French and Arabic

From 2011, Dr. Sibley will be the director of postgraduate research at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre. She is also responsible for admissions to the BA Architecture programme.