Lina Ghotmeh leads her practice Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture in Paris. Echoing her lived experience in Beirut – a palimpsest of unrest – her designs are orchestrated as an “Archeology of the Future” where every project emerges materially sensitive and in symbiosis with nature.

Her work includes “Stone Garden” tower in Beirut, Dezeen Award “Project of the Year” (2021), exhibited at the 17th Biennale in Venice, at MAXXI in Rome and in Cooper Hewitt in New York; the Estonian National Museum, Mies Van der Rohe nominee; Ateliers Hermès the first energy-positive, low carbon manufacturing building in France; the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion in London and the future AlUla Contemporary Art Museum.

Lina Ghotmeh was Louis I Khan Professor at Yale University, Gehry Chair at Toronto University (2021-22) and held the Kenzo Tange professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design GSD (2024). She has been awarded the Schelling Architecture Prize (2020) and the Great Arab Minds Award (2023) among other prizes and nominations.

She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, where she looked at the notions of memory, space and landscape through her own methodology.