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Khaled Malas
خالد ملص
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Damascus, Syria.
NationalitySyrian

Khaled Malas (Template:Lang-ar)[1] is a Syrian architect and art historian. He is also a co-founder of the Sigil Collective[2] alongside Salim al-Kadi, Alfred Tarazi and Jana Traboulsi.[3][4][5]

Malas studied architecture at the American University of Beirut[6] and at Cornell University.[7] He is currently a doctoral candidate in medieval Islamic Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.[8][9] Prior to joining the Institute, he was an architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Herzog & de Meuron.[7]

His work has been widely exhibited and published. Sigil's work has also been shown around the world including in Venice,[10][11] Oslo,[5] Annandale-on-Hudson,[12][13] Beirut,[14] Dubai and Marrakech.[15] and Milan. He has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP),[3] and at Columbia University's Columbia Global Center/Studio-X in Amman, where he led the second Janet Abu Lughod seminar which focused on Qusayr Amra.[16][17]

Malas is a member of the Arab Image Foundation's General Assembly.[18][citation needed]

Works as Sigil

Selected awards and honors

  • 2015: 'The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Visual Arts Grant' [36]
  • 2016: 'Distinguished Young Alumni Award of the Architecture & Design Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Awarded in recognition of interdisciplinary creativity and activism.[37]

Selected writing

  • 2016: "Monuments of the Everyday" ‘After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit’ by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio G. Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier (eds.)(Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016)
  • 2016: "Review: Pattern, Color, Light: Architectural Ornament in the Near East (500–1000)," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75 No. 2 (2016): pp. 238–239
  • 2017: "The body, writhing in pain, sits before an intoxicated audience" ‘No to the Invasion: Breakdown and Side-effects’ edited by Fawz Kabra (Annandale-on-Hudson: CCS Bard, 2017)
  • 2018: "A Cenotaph" Broken Nature Website A Cenotaph</ref>[citation needed]

Further reading

  • Watenpaugh Heghnar Zeitlian, “Cultural Heritage and the Arab Spring: War over Culture, Culture of War, and Culture War,” "International Journal of Islamic Architecture 5" (2016): pp. 245–63
  • العربي الجديذ - خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس [38]
  • Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen "Practical Magic: Can Art Make a Difference in Assad Syria?," Bookforum(Apr/May 2017): pp. 42–43
  • فوّاز طرابلسي "حفريات السماء - حفريات الأرض" دم الأخوين: العنف في الحروب الأهليّة (بيروت: رياض الريّس للكتب و النشر, 2017), pp. 207–227
  • Kafka, George "Active Witness" Icon (architecture magazine) Architecture and Design Culture (May 2019); pp. 52–60
  • Davidson, Cynthia "Paola Antonelli on Broken Nature" Log (magazine) (Winter/Spring 2019); page 51

References

  1. ^ Vigna, Francesca La (June 12, 2016). "SIRIA: L'architettura secondo Khaled Malas, atto di resistenza creativa".
  2. ^ "XXII Triennale di Milano 2019". Corriere della Sera. 19 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Sigil". sharjahart.org. Sharjah Art Foundation.
  4. ^ Johnson, Phyllis Berman- (2 June 2016). "Battlefield Architecture". Forbes Middle East.
  5. ^ a b c Korody, Nicholas (September 27, 2016). "A well, a windmill, a mirror: Sigil's real and symbolic interventions in Syria". Archinect. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Alumni in the News". American University of Beirut Office of Almuni Relations. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  7. ^ a b Harb, Mona (November 13, 2014). "Exhibiting the War in Syria: Interview with Khaled Malas". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Harvard Arab Weekend 2016". Harvard Arab Weekend 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  9. ^ https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/phdstudents.htm [bare URL]
  10. ^ a b Pignatti, Lorenza (September 21, 2014). "La Siria in un pozzo. Alla Biennale di Architettura | Artribune".
  11. ^ جدلية, Jadaliyya-. "Excavating the Sky". Jadaliyya - جدلية.
  12. ^ "CCS Bard - No to the Invasion:Breakdowns and Side Effects". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  13. ^ "CCS Bard - Khaled Malas". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  14. ^ "Fruit of Sleep - Sursock Museum". sursock.museum. 14 October 2017.
  15. ^ a b "Tracing the Contours of Power at the Marrakech Biennale". 6 May 2016.
  16. ^ "Newsletter: The Second Janet Abu-Lughod Seminar, Led by Khaled Malas - Columbia Global Centers". globalcenters.columbia.edu.
  17. ^ "Qusayr Amra a lens onto production of early Islamic art, architecture — scholar". 4 September 2017.
  18. ^ "Governance". Arab Image Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  19. ^ "البندقية: خالد ملص منقّباً عن سوريا في السماء".
  20. ^ Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen (31 October 2014). "Productive Anguish". Frieze (167).
  21. ^ "Excavating the Sky: Syria's Contemporary Landscape at Monditalia". 22 August 2014.
  22. ^ "Gallery of Excavating the Sky: Syria's Contemporary Landscape at Monditalia - 1".
  23. ^ "Marrakech: Art of the Red City - Independent.ie". 14 March 2016.
  24. ^ "The 6th Marrakech Biennale Thinks Beyond the "New" with a Critical Look at the Present - ArtSlant". ArtSlant. Archived from the original on 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  25. ^ "Marrakech Biennale 2016". 4 March 2016.
  26. ^ "Exhibition: On Residence".
  27. ^ "CCS Bard | No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21.
  28. ^ "Syria: Into the Light - Projects - Atassi Foundation". www.atassifoundation.com.
  29. ^ "Sigil. Fruit of Sleep, Beirut 2017".
  30. ^ a b "Postcard from Beirut". 20 October 2017.
  31. ^ "ArtAsiaPacific: To The Nearest Heterotopia Sharjah Biennial13 Act Ii Part2". artasiapacific.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-17.
  32. ^ "Checklist".
  33. ^ "Broken Nature – Interni Magazine". Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  34. ^ "MoMA curator: "[Humanity] will become extinct. We need to design an elegant ending"". 8 January 2019.
  35. ^ "Broken Nature Portrait #2: Sigil Collective". YouTube.
  36. ^ "AFAC :: GRANTEES". www.arabculturefund.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  37. ^ "AUB - FEA Student and Alumni Conference - Program Book" (PDF).
  38. ^ "خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس". alaraby.co.uk.
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