Hala Barakat

Biography

Hala Barakat is an assistant professor of Architecture at Washington State University. Previously, Hala taught at the University of Idaho and The University of South Florida. Her background as a Palestinian from Anabta deeply influences her work on the challenges, sleights, injustices, and outright failures that architecture has perpetuated over time by suppressing marginalized populations in favor of majoritarian agendas. She believes in architecture’s ability to uncover and map hidden narratives of deracination and resists the use of architecture to serve any political agenda. Hala’s contributions include a chapter in the book “Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment, Omission, Deception, Erasure, Silence” for her work: “A New Approach to Unveiling Hidden History” and “The Skeletal Bulldozer” in the book “Landwalks across Palestine and South Africa.” She was a fellow in the 2023 Architecture Residency program at Art Omi.