Teaching Architecture Students Ways to Design Using Industrial Waste

Architect and design researcher Dr. Ahmed Kamal Ali is the founder/director of the Resource-Based Design Research Lab at Texas A&M University. And he struggles with something involving his work: ""I love waste because I make use of it," he told Texas A&M Today, "but I also hate it at the same time and don't want people to produce more of it." Dr. Ali's current interest is in finding useful, profitable applications for industrial waste. A few years ago he co-authored a paper observing that...