Visions from Beirut

Karim Nader, Representative of the Lebanese architectural avant-garde, with offices in Paris, Beirut, and Dubai, Karim Nader has been working, thinking, and teaching architecture since the year 1999. “Silent but never still,” his extensive list of built projects, such as Amchit Residence, the BDL-CMA building, or the House on the Rocks, has received local and international acclaim and has been published extensively. He has taught for twenty years at the American University of Beirut, and more recently at the Politecnico di Milano. His retrospective book, “For a Novel Architecture, ciné-roman 2000-2020” received the “Le Geste d’Or” award in Paris in 2021. https://www.karimnader.com/
Julien Lanoo is a Belgian photographer. He looks at the architectural world with a deep understanding of its historical and social layers as well as the visible and intangible connections between nature, light, and materiality. His work has been exhibited widely, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Cité de l’architecture in Paris, and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, among others. He co-authored, together with Julien de Smedt, the book “Built Unbuilt” revisiting 16 years of JDSA’s work, and most recently, his photographs appeared in “The Vitra Campus: Architecture Design Industry”.