The Dar Al Handasah Architecture and Design Building was formerly the Chemistry Building, constructed with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1926 and completed in 1930.
On September 5, 2022, the American University of Beirut inaugurated the new Dar Al-Handasah Architecture Building, which hosts the university's leading Department of Architecture and Design. It will now offer new generations of students and faculty members exceptional teaching spaces, offices labs, studios, lecture halls, and exhibition and archive spaces.