Ali S. Smaili

Course taught (Four semesters prior to current visit):

Design7

Building Construction II

Architectural form and structure

Educational credentials

Architecture, Lebanon 1999

Master in civil engineering, France 2001

PhD in lightweight structures, France 2004

Teaching Experience

2002-2004: College of architecture of Languedoc-Roussillon, France

2005-2007: Lebanese university and LIU, Lebanon

2008-until now: King Saud university, Saudi Arabia

 Licenses/Registration

Order of architects and engineers, No. 23869, Lebanon

Tensinet membership, No 19953, Belgium

Selected publications and recent research:

1. Motro R., Smaili A. and Foucher O., Form controlled for tensegrity formfinding, Snelson and Emmerich examples, proceedings of the International Symposium for Lightweight Structures in Civil Engineering, 24-28 June 2002, Warsaw, Poland.
2. Smaili A., Le Saux C., Cévaer F. and Motro R., Pliage/dépliage de systèmes constructifs à barres et câbles, application aux systèmes de tenségrité, Colloque Lagrange, Novembre 2003, Montpellier, France.
3. Smaili A., Pliage/dépliage de Système de tenségrité, DOCTISS, 2 mars 2004, Montpellier, France.
4. Smaili A., Motro R. and Raducanu V., New concept for deployable tensegrity systems, Structural mechanisms activated by shear force, International Conference for Shell and Spatial Structures from Models to Realization, September 20-24, 2004, Montpellier, France.
5. Smaili A. and Motro R., Foldable/Unfoldable Tensegrity Systems, Journal of the International Association for shell and Spatial Structures, January 2005.
6. Smaili A. and Motro R., Foldable/Unfodable Tensegrtiy Systems by Self-Stress Cancellation, International Conference for Shell and Spatial Structures, June 2005, Budapest, Romania.
7. Smaili A. and Motro R., Folding and Unfolding of Curved Tensegrity Systems by Finite Mechanism Activation, IASS-APCS International Conference for Shell and Spatial Structures, Beijing, China.
8. Smaili A. and Motro R., Circular & Spherical Foldable/Unfoldable Tensegrity Systems by Finite Mechanism Activation, Journal of the International Association for shell and Spatial Structures, November 2007.
9. Motro R.(Ed.), Ali Smaili, Flexible composition materials, In architecture, construction and interior Book. Birkhauser, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-7643-8972-7, 2013.