Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture

Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture is a critically acclaimed international firm of architects, designers, and researchers based in Paris, with a multi-disciplinary approach. The firm was established by French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, co-founder of the former DGT Architects. Lina Ghotmeh is emerging as one of the industry’s leading international practitioners, having recently completed a number of award-winning projects, including with her prior firm the Estonian National Museum (Grand Prix Afex 2016, nominee of the Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2017). Her designs, infused with innovation and poetics, reveal her transversal and multidisciplinary approach to Architecture. Each of the firm’s projects develops from thorough historical research into an exquisite intervention that enlivens your memory and your senses. As an “Archeology of the Future” where every new gesture is drawn from the traces of the past. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture design ecologically and sustainably: the projects derive their aesthetics from their close relationship with nature and express the essence of the materials from which they are fashioned. The firm’s projects include the emblematic 14-storey wooden tower in Paris Réalimenter Masséna – winner of Reinventer Paris, a call for projects with an innovative urban vision – Stone Gardens Art Foundation and green housing tower in Beirut, and interior renovation of Palais de Tokyo’s restaurants in Paris. Lina Ghotmeh was selected by the European Architects Review as one of 10 'Visionary Architects for a New Decade' in 2010. she has won awards including the AJAP Prize of the French Ministry of Culture in 2008, and the Prix Dejean of the French Academy of Architecture in 2016. She is actively involved in the academic world and has taught and lectured in schools and institutions across the world. www.linaghotmeh.com photo on cover: Estonian National Museum, Tartu Design: Lina Ghotmeh + Formerly DGT - Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects Photo by: Takuji Shimmura