Yara Feghali

Yara Feghali is a Lebanese architect and principal of Folly Feast Lab, an experimental design studio based in Los Angeles and cofounded with Viviane El-Kmati. She is a design faculty at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design where she teaches design studio and technology seminars at the graduate level. She taught at the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt, Germany, graduate thesis and visual studies. She is visiting faculty at SCI-Arc in the Design Theory and Pedagogy program.

Her research work interrogates the territories of architecture education and speculates on the role of emerging technologies in designing our environments using new media and storytelling techniques. Her design studio Folly Feast Lab builds visually-led immersive and interactive mixed reality experiences to address present social and urban themes working with 3D scanning, AI, and game engines.