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Schelling Architecture Prize 2020 News
19 November 2021
Schelling Architecture Prize 2020
The decision for the Schelling Architecture Prize 2020 was made on November 17, 2021
After the short presentations, the jury opted for Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, Paris
Lina Ghotmeh Architect Paris

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Schelling Architecture Prize 2020
Karlsruhe, November 18th, 2021 – Lina Ghotmeh is a wanderer between Europe and the Middle East. She grew up in Beirut, where she studied at the American University. She was shaped by the time in Lebanon shortly after the civil war.
Stone Garden, Beirut, Lebanon:

picture © Iwan Baan In her methodology as an architect, she advocates an ?archeology of the future? as precisely as possible as the starting point for every project. She understands this to mean analyzing what already exists, checking it for its – even painful – meanings + then relinking these with the social and political reality of life on site. Ghotmeh combines this translation service with a strong architectural concept.
Realimenter Massena by Lina Ghotmeh:

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“If you are building today, it is of vital importance to understand that you necessarily always find yourself in a system of relationships”. This is the credo of the architect Lina Ghotmeh, who speaks out in this debate with committed statements, with her buildings ...