Lina Ghotmeh.
photography. David Levene
linaghotmeh.com
Lina Ghotmeh is creating a future informed not only by physical materials, but by being attentive to genius loci – the spirit of the place. Paris-based Lebanese architect Ghotmeh designs with a keen sense of place and a profound respect for local craft and materials. Her architecture unfolds slowly, shaped by care: care for the land, for memory and for humans and their emotions within space. She weaves together the immaterial and the material, allowing history, climate and local knowledge to inform architecture that feels both caring, timeless and forward-looking.
Born in Lebanon, a place layered with history, fragility and resilience, Ghotmeh carries the sensibility, warmth and hospitality of her homeland into her projects: through light and textures, by creating places for humans to connect and exchange, offering refuge and a sense of belonging, and quietly reminding us that architecture can be an act of care.
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Stone Garden, Beirut, Lebanon.
Housing and Mina Art Foundation
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture 2020–2021
photography. Iwan Baan
Stone Garden, Beirut, Lebanon.
Housing and Mina Art Foundation
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture 2020–2021
photography. Iwan Baan
Precise Acts, Ateliers Hermès, Normandy, France.
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture 2019–2023
photography. Takuji Shimmura
image. Courtesy of Hermès
British Museum’s Western Range
London, United Kingdom.
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture
2020–ongoing
image. Courtesy of Lina Ghotme
Bahrain Pavilion, Osaka Expo 2025
Osaka, Japan.
Anatomy of a Dhow, Bahrain Pavilion
Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture 2023–2025
photography. Iwan Baan
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