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Khaled Malas
خالد ملص
Born1981
Damascus, Syria.
NationalitySyrian

Khaled Malas (in Arabic خالد ملص) (born in 1981 in Damascus) is a Syrian architect and an art historian. He is also a co-founder of the Sigil Collective alongside Salim al-Kadi, Alfred Tarazi and Jana Traboulsi.[1][2][3]

Biography

Khaled Malas was born in Damascus, Syria. He studied architecture at the American University of Beirut [4] and at Cornell University.[5] He is currently a PhD candidate in medieval Islamic art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. [6] [7] Prior to joining the Institute, he was an architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Herzog & de Meuron. His work has been published widely and was shown in Venice[8], Oslo,[3] Annandale-on-Hudson[9], Beirut[10], Dubai and Marrakech (during 6th edition of Arts in Marrakech (AiM) International Biennale. He is a member of the Arab Image Foundation's General Assembly.[11] He has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) [1] 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[12]

ولد ملص في دمشق . درس الهندسة المعمارية في بيروت و ايثيكا. هو حاليا تلميذ الدكتوراه في تاريخ الفن و العمارة الإسلامية في جامعة نيويورك.

قبل عودته الى الدراسة عمل ملص كمعماري في مكاتب oma و herzog de meuron و قد اختص على المشاريع الثقافية العامة.

نشرت اعماله على نطاق واسع و عرضت في مدن عديدة حول العالم كبيروت، مراكش، اوسلو و دبي.

اسس ملص تجمع 'سِجلّ' الفني مع اللبنانيون سليم القاضي ، ألفريد طرزي و جنى طرابلسي.

في صيف عام ٢٠١٤ مثل سوريا لاول مرة في معرض البندقية للهندسة المعمارية بمشروع يدعى 'تنقيب السماء' حيث حفر بئرا في ريف درعا بالتعاون مع مؤسسات أهلية و رسم جناحا نازحا في البندقية نظم فيها ندوات و عروض سينما.

Works as Sigil

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)

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
  • Al Araby Al Jadeed - خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس [19]
  • Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen "Practical Magic: Can Art Make a Difference in Assad Syria?," Bookforum (Apr/May 2017): pp.42-43
  • Traboulsi, Fawwaz "Excavating the Sky, Excavating the Earth" Blood of two Brothers: Violence in Civil Wars (Beirut: Riad el-Rayyes Books, 2017), pp. 207-227

References