Architecture from Nature
Lina Ghotmeh is the principal of Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture in Paris. Her designs, which echo her lived experience in Beirut—a palimpsest of unrest—are orchestrated as an “Archeology of the Future” in which every project emerges as materially sensitive and in symbiosis with nature. Her work includes the Stone Garden tower in Beirut (the Dezeen Awards’ Architecture Project of the Year 2021); the Estonian National Museum (a 2017 Mies Van der Rohe Award nominee); Ateliers Hermès, the first energy-positive, low-carbon manufacturing building in France; the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion in London; and the future AlUla Contemporary Art Museum in Saudi Arabia. She has also exhibited at the 17th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, MAXXI in Rome, and Cooper Hewitt in New York. A former Louis I. Khan Visiting Professor at Yale and the 2020–2021 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair at the University of Toronto, Ghotmeh was the spring 2024 Kenzo Tange Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient, among other prizes and nominations, of the Schelling Architecture Prize (2020) and the Great Arab Minds Award (2023).