Zegeye Cherenet
Assistant Professor, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction & City Development (EiABC) and Partner, Oadus Architecture & Engineering, Ethiopia
Last updated: June 17, 2024 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
He is a practising architect and runs OADUS Architecture & Engineering with his partners based in Addis Ababa.
Zegeye Cherenet is a guest lecturer at various universities in Ethiopia and internationally, including visiting academic in the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) (2006/07). He was Chair of Architecture & Design at EiABC (2009-11). He was General Secretary of the Association of Ethiopian Architects (AEA) (2004-08).
He studied architecture and town planning at Addis Ababa University and holds a Master of Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee). He holds a PhD summa cum laude on designing the informal-searching strategies for waster-sensitive urbanization from HafenCity University (HCU) in Hamburg, Germany (2015).
He is co-author with Helawi Sewnet of Building Ethiopia: Sustainability and innovation in architecture and design (EiABC, 2012).