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For the final talk in this year鈥檚 series, we invite internationally and critically acclaimed architect Lina Ghotmeh to explore how her portfolio of work challenges conventions, pushing the boundaries of innovative and sustainable design.听 听听
Keynote speaker
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Lina Ghotmeh leads her practice in Paris. Echoing her lived experience in Beirut, a palimpsest of unrest, her designs are orchestrated as an 鈥淎rchaeology of the Future鈥� where every project emerges materially sensitive and in symbiosis with nature.听听听
Her work includes:
- 鈥溾�� tower in Beirut, Dezeen Award 鈥榩roject of the year鈥� (2021), exhibited at the , at MAXXI in Rome and in cooper Hewitt in New York
- , Mies Van der Rohe nominee
- the first energy-positive, low carbon manufacturing building in France
- the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion in London
- the future AlUla Contemporary Art Museum
Lina Ghotmeh was Louis I. Kahn professor at Yale, Gehry Chair at Toronto University (2021 to 2022), and held the Kenzo Tange professorship at GSD Harvard (2024).
She has been awarded the Schelling Architecture Prize (2020) and the Great Arab Minds Award (2023) among other prizes and nominations.听
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Lead image:
Bahrain Pavilion, Osaka Expo
Osaka, Japan
Anatomy of a Dhow, Bahrain Pavilion
Osaka Expo Photo 漏 Lina Ghotmeh 鈥� Architecture