Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD)  in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
Master of Science, History and Theory of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
Master of Design Studies, Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology, Harvard University, 2015
Master of Science, Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University, 2010
Bachelor of Architecture, Kuwait University, 2008

 Peer Reviewer, ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference - Conflict : Resolution, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2025 
Technical Expert, The King Salman Charter for Architecture and Urbanism Award, Saudi Arabia, 2024
Alumni Board, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, 2023-5
Scientific Committee, European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Thematic Conference, Reykjavík 2023, Organized by the MoMA Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment and Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2023
Alumni Regional Ambassador, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, 2022- present
Interviewer, Penn Alumni Interview Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2020- present 
Alumni Admissions Ambassador, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2020- present 
Co-Founder (with Daniel A. Barber and Joy Knoblauch), SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), 2020 
Co-Chair (with Daniel A. Barber and Joy Knoblauch), SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), 2020-2 
Co-Chair (with Megan Eardley), Architecture and Environment Interest Group, European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 2019-present 
 

Landscape Architecture; Environmental History; Environmental Imaginary; Modern Architecture; Environment; Climate

Graduation Project II, Required 5th year B.Arch Studio
Graduation Project I, Required 5th year B.Arch Studio
Architecture in the Middle East, Elective B.Arch Seminar 
Architectural Design VI, Required 4th year B.Arch Studio
Architectural Design V, Required 4th year B.Arch Studio 
Theory and Philosophy of Architecture II, Required 3rd year B.Arch Seminar 
Theory and Philosophy of Architecture I, Required 3rd year B.Arch Seminar
Architectural Design II, Required 2nd year B.Arch Studio
Architectural Design I, Required 2nd year B.Arch Studio
Design Basics, Required 1st year B.Arch Studio
Introduction to Architecture, Required 1st year B.Arch Lecture Course

Edited Volumes

Camacho, Ricardo, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, and Sara Saragoça Soares, eds. Pan-Arab Modernism: A History of Architectural Practice in the Middle East, 1968-2018. Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2021. Bilingual [English and Arabic]
 

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed.  “Ovunque negli Stati Uniti, Aramco Housing nel deserto dell'Arabia Saudita” in: Samia Henni, a cura di, I deserti non sono vuoti, (edizione e traduzione italiana a cura di Antonio di Campli e Camillo Boano), Letteraventidue, Siracusa, 2024, pp-83-123. 

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Conspicuous: Drawing, Photograph, Map.” In In Plain Sight: Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes, The Catalogue of the UAE Pavilion at the Venice Biennale edited by Faysal Tabbarah and Meitha Almazrooei. Beirut, Lebanon: Kaph Books, 2023.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Anywhere, U.S.A.: Aramco’s Suburb in Saudi Arabia’s Desert.” In Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, 272-317. New York, NY: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “TVA in the Desert: U.S. Development Projects in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1949-1961,” in The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design: Global Perspectives from Architectural History, ed. Joseph Heathcott (New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022), 258–69.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Chicken of Tomorrow and Farm of Today: The Chicken, the Farm, and the Greenhouse.” In On Foraging: Food Knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE’s Landscape, edited by Faysal Tabbarah, Dima Srouji, and Meitha Almazrooei, 48–59. Abu Dhabi, UAE: Warehouse 421, 2021.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “The ‘Right to the City’ in the Landscapes of Servitude and Migration, from the Philippines to the Arabian Gulf, and Back.” In Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space, edited by Tabea Linhard and Timothy H. Parsons, 283–311. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Utopian Dreams in the Making of Kuwait: From Sand and Mud to Grass and Concrete.” In Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait, edited by Ricardo Camacho, Sara Saragoça Soares, and Roberto Fabbri, 222–32. Salenstein: Niggli, 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Displaying Might, Warmly: The US Pavilions at the Syrian Trade Fair During the Cold War.” Architecture and Culture, February 12, 2025, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2024.2407242.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Visualizing the Desert: Karl S. Twitchell and the Environmental Imaginaries of the Saudi Arabian Desert, 1936-48,” Journal of Architectural Education 77, no. 2, July 3, 2023: 226–36, https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2023.2232697. * Awarded the JAE Narrative Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Journal of Architecture Education (JAE).

Articles

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Constructing the Environmental Imaginary: US Developmental Aid in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1953–1961,” ART PAPERS, 2023. https://www.artpapers.org/constructing-the-environmental-imaginary/ 

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Airplane, Pipeline, Car, House: Oil and the Anywhere, U.S.A. Suburb in Saudi Arabia.” In Reading Beyond..., edited by Fatma Mhmood and Bert De Jonghe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2021.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961.” Architecture Beyond Europe (ABE) 17 (2020). https://journals.openedition.org/abe/7963.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “From Domestic Housh to Consumer Mojama’a: The Social Space of Women in Kuwait.” Magazine On Urbanism [MONU], 2014.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “HIDDEN SPACE | SOCIAL SPACE The Spatiality of Temporary Migration Between Home and Host Countries.” Magazine On Urbanism [MONU], 2015.

Reviews

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. Planning Abu Dhabi: An Urban History By Alamira Reem Bani Hashim in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review [TDSR], Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2020.

Reports

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “‘Bringing the Machine to the House’: The IBEC System and Experimental Housing in Baghdad, Iraq, 1953-58.” RAC Research Reports. Sleepy Hollow, New York: Rockefeller Archive Center, August 2019. https://rockarch.issuelab.org/resource/bringing-the-machine-to-the-house-the-ibec-system-and-experimental-housing-in-baghdad-iraq-1953-58.html.

Digital Publications

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed. “Landscapes of Petroleum, Company Towns, Representations: The Case Of Abadan, Iran.” Omeka Exhibit with the Mapping Cultural Space Project at the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies (blog), June 2015. https://eurasia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/alsayer_landscape-of-petroleum.

Alsayer, Dalal Musaed.  “Modernizing the Rural: Environmental Imaginaries, Agriculture, and the TVA-Concept in the Desert, The Jordan River,1953-19XX.” Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Fellows Blog (blog), July 5, 2016. www.ppehlab.org/blogposts/2016/7/5/modernizing-the-rural-environmental-imaginaries-agriculture-and-the-tva-concept-in-the-desert-the-jordan-river-valley-1953-19xx. [Peer-reviewed]