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Faces of Palestinian Architecture

Palestinian architects marry heritage with horizon, crafting structures that stand as testaments to history and visions of the future.

  • 17 architects
  • Born 1938–1990
  • 4 from Jerusalem
The minaret of the Ali Bakka Mosque, HebronThe minaret of the Ali Bakka Mosque, Hebron
A vaulted alley in the old city of NablusA vaulted alley in the old city of Nablus
The old city of NablusThe old city of Nablus
Photos: Rawda Wisam (CC BY-SA 4.0), Mohammad Hijjawi (CC BY-SA 4.0), Mohammad Hijjawi (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

About Architecture

Building on a land that remembers.

Palestine’s stone villages, old cities and terraced hills are among the oldest built landscapes in the world. Since 1991 Riwaq, founded in Ramallah by the architect Suad Amiry, has surveyed tens of thousands of historic buildings and brought many of them back to life.

Palestinian architects have also shaped cities far from home. Rasem Badran, born in Jerusalem, won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his work in Riyadh, while Sandi Hilal and DAAR have made refugee camps such as Dheisheh into places to rethink what architecture can do.

The people in this path design, restore and study buildings, and the archaeology beneath them. For them, architecture is a way of keeping a place and its people together.

All 17 architects

Every face in Architecture, from the earliest pioneers to the voices of today.

Born across the decades

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  1. 1930s
  2. 1940s
  3. 1950s
  4. 1960s
  5. 1970s
  6. 1980s
  7. 1990s

17 architects