Lina Ghotmeh's Studio // IC, GAX, MR

Lina Ghotmeh's work and personality could be described as humanist. Born in Beirut in 1980, she grew up in this thousand-year-old cosmopolitan city marked by the scars of war. Although she wanted to become an archaeologist, her studies led her to question traces, memory, space and landscape in a different way, developing her projects through a profoundly sustainable approach and, in her words, “an archaeology of the future”. After graduating, Lina continued her training at the École Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris, where she became an associate professor between 2008 and 2015. While working with Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster & Partners in London, she won the international competition for the Estonian National Museum in 2005. Following this event, she co-founded DGT Architects in Paris, bringing this great National Museum to fruition. It has become emblematic of avant-garde architecture, combining relevance and beauty of gesture. Lina Ghotmeh's approach, imbued with extreme sensitivity, bears witness to her visionary eye and libertarian spirit in each of her proposals. Notable projects include Réalimenter Masséna and the El Khoury Foundation's Stone Garden complex in Beirut.