Archaeology of the Future

Lina Ghotmeh

Principal, Lina Ghotmeh Architecture

Lina Ghotmeh is the founder of Paris-based architecture studio Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture. Echoing her lived experience in Beirut, her office’s work is orchestrated as an “Archeology of the Future”: every project emerges in complete symbiosis with nature after a thorough historical and materially sensitive approach. Lina Ghotmeh is a Louis I Khan visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, a Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, and is a Member Professor at the IAA International Academy of Architecture. She has been awarded the 2020 Schelling Architecture Prize, the 2020 Tamayouz “Woman of Outstanding Achievement” Award, the 2019 French Fine Arts Academy Cardin Award, among others. She has also been recently appointed architect of the prestigious Serpentine Pavilion for 2023 in London.

Ethnographic Museum © Takuji Shimmura

Réalimenter Masséna © Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture

Saradar Collection Archive Museum © Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture

Stone Garden  © Laurian Ghinitoiu

Stone Garden and its adjacency  © Laurian Ghinitoiu