Jaffar
el Halabi

Benois de la Danse laureate

Jaffar Chalabi, architect based in Wien, was born in Bagdag, Iraq.

He started studying sculpture and applied arts in Wien, where he will latter follow his studies at the University of Architecture where he got his degree, completing his education in Michigan Ann Arbor, EEUU. 

In 1993 he founded the office Chalabi Associates. From 1996 he teaches at the Wohnbau Cuno Brullmann Institute, as well as at the Politechnic University of Wien.