Biographies DESIGN EARTH DESIGN EARTH is an architectural practice founded in 2010 by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. Through architectural drawings, exhibitions, and publications, DESIGN EARTH investigates aesthetic forms of environmental engagement and visualizes how urban systems change the Earth. Their design research brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with legacy technologies on a damaged planet. DESIGN EARTH has exhibited and published widely. They contributed to the US Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and the Kuwait Pavilion in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Boston Design Biennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Sharjah Biennial. They have also contributed to solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; Sursock Museum, Beirut; MIT Keller Gallery; Yale School of Architecture; Cooper Union Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. Their work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art. The work of DESIGN EARTH has been awarded prizes internationally, including the Architectural League of New York’s Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Jacques Rougerie Foundation’s First Prize, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Awards. They have also been recognized by the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards in Representation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their research has been funded by Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Ghosn and Jazairy are authors of Geographies of Trash (Actar, 2016) and an exhibition catalog entitled Two Cosmograms (MIT SA+P Press, 2016). Their essays and projects have been published in the Avery Review, San Rocco, Volume, Domus, Abitare, Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies, Journal of Architectural Education, Pidgin, ARQ Magazine, MONU, and Thresholds.
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