Fasil Giorghis has designed hotels, cultural centers, lecture halls, and private residences. Typical of his designs are the use of local materials and indigenous knowledge combined with a great concern for his designs’ impact on the environment. He served as the team leader of a World Bank funded cultural heritage project in Aksum where a group of expatriate and local experts in archaeology, conservation and tourism development worked together to upgrade the world heritage site (2005-08).

He received his Bachelor from Addis Ababa University (1985) and Master’s from Helsinki University of Technology (1990). For more than three decades, he has devoted his time to the study and preservation of the architectural heritage of Ethiopia, from traditional housing to historic towns.

Among his notable works are the Red Terror Memorial Museum, the new blocks of the Alliance Ethio-Françoise, the restoration of the Addis Ababa Museum and Saint Mary of Tsion Church in Aksum. He published Addis Ababa: the City and its Urban and Architectural Heritage from 1886-1941 (Shama Books, 2007).