Yara is a Lebanese architect licensed in Beirut, and a lecturer at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design where she teaches design and research studio at the graduate level. Before that, she was teaching at the Städelchule Architecture Class (SAC) in Germany design studios, visual studies, and seminars at the postgraduate level. Her research work interrogates the territories of architectural education core curriculum, and she speculates on the role of emerging technologies in designing our cities using new media and storytelling techniques. Her current studio Los Angeles Portraits explores Los Angeles lush diversity by uncovering its multiple layers of resolution.