Lina Ghotmeh

In 2005, while working in London and collaborating with Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster & Partners, she wins the international competition for the design of the Estonian National Museum. Following this victory, she co-founded her first studio DGT Architects in Paris and lead the realization of the large-scale project of the National Museum. Acclaimed unanimously by the international press and having won prestigious awards (Grand prix AFEX 2016 & nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award 2017), the museum became the symbol for avant-gardist architecture, combining pertinence and subtlety.

All of Lina Ghotmeh’s proposals are testimonies to her visionary approach and sensitive twist on architecture – notably in projects like: Réalimenter Masséna (winner of the call for innovation competition “Réinventer Paris”) or the highly praised tower Stone Garden delivered in Beirut.

She is the recipient of multiple awards, including: the prestigious Schelling Architecture Prize in 2021, the Tamayouz “Woman of Outstanding Achievement” Award in 2020, the French Fine Arts Academy Cardin Award in 2019, the French Academy Dejean Prize in 2016, the Grand Prix Afex in 2016 and the French Ministry AJAP Prize in 2008. In 2021, she is also appointed professor member of the IAA International Academy of Architecture.

Her work was exhibited namely at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice and was widely published by the likes of Phaidon, Taschen, RIBA, Domus, AA and Architectural Record.