Nabil Gholam


Nabil Gholam is a French-Lebanese architect, urban planner and the founder of Nabil Gholam Architects. In 2010, Monocle magazine has called Gholam a "leading" architect in Lebanon. In Modern Architecture: A Critical History, critic Kenneth Frampton cited Gholam's colony of holiday chalets at Faqra as one of "two works promise a renewal of Lebanese architecture".

Career

Nabil Gholam first studied Architecture at the UP-Paris Villemin and received the French degree in 1986. He then completed studies in Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Graduate School of Architecture] of Columbia University in New York City.
From 1988 to 1994 he worked at Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. In 1994 he came back to Beirut and founded Nabil Gholam Architects.
In Beirut, ngª had its first office on Rue Gouraud in 1994, then in 1995 on Abdelwahab al-Inglizi Street in Achrafieh. In 2002 the firm moved to the Beydoun building on Deir Nasra Street, and in 2011 to a converted industrial building in the Palais de justice neighborhood.
In 2004 the firm established a secondary office in Barcelona, and moved it to Seville in 2010.

Works

This list only includes those ngª projects that were actually built, ranked by chronological order of completion.