Architect Lina Ghotmeh joins the line up for DesignTalks 2025
Lina Ghotmeh leads her practice Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture. 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.
DesignTalks takes place on the 2nd of April in Harpa, Reykjavik with the theme of The Source.
She was on Dezeen’s list of 50 most powerful women in Architecture and Design in 2024. Her work includes "Stone Garden" tower in Beirut, Dezeen Award ‘project of the year’ in 2021, exhibited at the 17th Biannale in Venice, at MAXXI in Rome and in Cooper Hewitt in New York; the Estonian National Museum, Mies Van der Rohe nominee; Ateliers Hermés the first energy-positive, low carbon manufacturing building in France; the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion in London and the future AlUla Contemporary Art Museum. Ghotmeh has been Louis I Khan professor at Yale, Gehry Chair at Toronto University and held the Kenzo Tange professorship at GSD Harvard last year. She has been awarded the Schelling Architecture Prize and the Great Arab Minds Award among other prizes and nominations.
“I feel the world needs so much healing, there are so many scarred hearts and surfaces of people but also of the built environment. Lina’s voice is unique in terms of contextualising and therefore providing meaning, collaborating with nature and how she looks for the future in the past.”
- Hlín Helga, DesignTalks curator
The DesignTalks programme will revolve around The source in all its forms. Whether it’s taking a moment to go back to the source, reconnecting with the roots or restoring oneself, the source is also commonly used for a moment in time where something begins or springs into being, a source of ideas, inspiration or materials.
Save the date! Tickets are now available to this popular event that has been sold out the last few years. Do not miss a full day of inspiration, innovation and creative powers!
