Khaled Malas

Khaled Malas
خالد ملص
Born1981 (age 43–44)
Damascus, Syria
NationalitySyrian

Khaled Malas (Arabic: خالد ملص)[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 has also taught on Medieval magic at New York University,[18][19] Arabic literature at the Cooper Union,[20] and lectures on art and design history at Pratt Institute[21]

Malas is a member of the Arab Image Foundation's General Assembly.[22][citation needed]

Works as Sigil

Selected awards and honors

  • 2015: 'The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Visual Arts Grant' [40]
  • 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.[41]

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 (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

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 [42]
  • 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 (12 June 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 (27 September 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 Alumni Relations. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  7. ^ a b Harb, Mona (13 November 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 12 June 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  9. ^ PhD Students New York University [dead link‍]
  10. ^ a b Pignatti, Lorenza (21 September 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 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  13. ^ "CCS Bard - Khaled Malas". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  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. ^ "Khaled Malas > Faculty > People > NYU Gallatin".
  19. ^ "Medieval Mediterranean Technologies of 'Magic' > Courses > Academics > NYU Gallatin".
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  22. ^ "Governance". Arab Image Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  23. ^ "البندقية: خالد ملص منقّباً عن سوريا في السماء".
  24. ^ Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen (31 October 2014). "Productive Anguish". Frieze (167).
  25. ^ "Excavating the Sky: Syria's Contemporary Landscape at Monditalia". 22 August 2014.
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  27. ^ "Marrakech: Art of the Red City - Independent.ie". 14 March 2016.
  28. ^ "The 6th Marrakech Biennale Thinks Beyond the "New" with a Critical Look at the Present - ArtSlant". ArtSlant. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
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  30. ^ "Exhibition: On Residence".
  31. ^ "CCS Bard | No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
  32. ^ "Syria: Into the Light - Projects - Atassi Foundation". www.atassifoundation.com.
  33. ^ "Sigil. Fruit of Sleep, Beirut 2017".
  34. ^ a b "Postcard from Beirut". 20 October 2017.
  35. ^ "ArtAsiaPacific: To The Nearest Heterotopia Sharjah Biennial13 Act Ii Part2". artasiapacific.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017.
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  37. ^ "Broken Nature – Interni Magazine". Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  38. ^ "MoMA curator: "[Humanity] will become extinct. We need to design an elegant ending"". 8 January 2019.
  39. ^ "Broken Nature Portrait #2: Sigil Collective". YouTube.
  40. ^ "AFAC :: GRANTEES". www.arabculturefund.org. Archived from the original on 26 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  41. ^ "AUB - FEA Student and Alumni Conference - Program Book" (PDF).
  42. ^ "خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس". alaraby.co.uk.