Bernard Khoury

Lebanon’s most prominent architect has quietly peppered the capital with buildings that have set tongues wagging across the globe since his return to the country in the early 1990s.

Bernard Khoury studied architecture at the Rhode Island school of Design, where he received his bachelor’s degree in the year 1991. Later, in the year 1993, he received a Masters in Architectural studies from Harvard University, and in 2001, he was awarded by the municipality of Rome the honorable mention of the Borromini prize given to architects under 40 years of age.

In 2008, he was a visiting professor at the Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; he has lectured and exhibited his work in prestigious academic institutions in Europe and the U.S including a solo show of his work given by the International Forum for Contemporary Architecture at the Aedes gallery in Berlin.

His work has been extensively published by the professional press. Khoury started an independent practice in 1993. Over the past 15 years, his office has developed an international reputation and a significant diverse portfolio of projects both locally and abroad.