Khaled Malas Explained

Khaled Malas
Native Name:	خالد ملص
Native Name Lang:	ar
Birth Place:	Damascus, Syria.
Nationality:	Syrian

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]

Works as Sigil

• Excavating the Sky, The 14th International Architecture Exhibition: "Fundamentals: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014". Directed by Rem Koolhaas, 2014 ^{[10] [23] [24] [25] [26]}
• Current Power in Syria, The 6th Marrakech International Biennale: "Not New Now". Curated by Reem Fadda, 2016 ^{[15] [27] [28] [29]}
• Monuments of the Everyday, Oslo arkitekturtriennale: "After Belonging". Curated by After Belonging, 2016 ^{[5] [30]}
• Monuments of the Everyday, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson: "No to the Invasion: From the Archive". Curated by Fawz Kabra and Tarek al-Ariss, 2017 ^[31]
• #therevolutionisamirror, Concrete (Alserkal Avenue), Dubai: "Syria: Into the Light". Curated by Mouna Atassi, 2017.^[32]
• Electric Resistance — Monument to a Destroyed Windmill, Sharjah Biennial 13: "Fruits of Sleep" Sursock Museum, Beirut. Curated by Christine Tohme and Reem Fadda, 2017^{[33] [34] [35]}
• Birdsong, XXII Esposizione Internazionale 12: "Broken Nature" La Triennale di Milano, Milan. Curated by Paola Antonelli, 2019 ^{[36] [34] [37] [38] [39]}

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: SIRIA: L'architettura secondo Khaled Malas, atto di resistenza creativa. Francesca La. Vigna. June 12, 2016.
2. News: XXII Triennale di Milano 2019 . Corriere della Sera . 19 June 2018 .
3. Web site: Sigil . Sharjah Art Foundation. sharjahart.org.
4. Web site: Battlefield Architecture. Johnson. Phyllis Berman-. 2 June 2016. Forbes Middle East.
5. Web site: A well, a windmill, a mirror: Sigil's real and symbolic interventions in Syria. Nicholas . Korody. September 27, 2016. Archinect. 6 April 2018.
6. Web site: Alumni in the News. American University of Beirut Office of Almuni Relations. 6 April 2018.
7. Web site: Exhibiting the War in Syria: Interview with Khaled Malas . November 13, 2014. Mona. Harb . Jadaliyya - جدلية. 6 April 2018.
8. Web site: Harvard Arab Weekend 2016. Harvard Arab Weekend 2016. 2018-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140219/https://www.harvardarabweekend.com/speakers. 2018-06-12. dead.
9. https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/people/phdstudents.htm PhD Students
10. Web site: La Siria in un pozzo. Alla Biennale di Architettura | Artribune. Lorenza. Pignatti. September 21, 2014.
11. Web site: Excavating the Sky. Jadaliyya-. جدلية. Jadaliyya - جدلية.
12. Web site: CCS Bard - No to the Invasion:Breakdowns and Side Effects. www.bard.edu. 2018-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184941/https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/no-to-the-invasion-breakdowns-and-side-effects/. 2018-06-12. dead.
13. Web site: CCS Bard - Khaled Malas. www.bard.edu. 2018-04-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180403234744/https://www.bard.edu/ccs/khaled-malas/. 2018-04-03. dead.
14. Web site: Fruit of Sleep - Sursock Museum. sursock.museum. 14 October 2017 .
15. Web site: Tracing the Contours of Power at the Marrakech Biennale. 6 May 2016.
16. Web site: Newsletter: The Second Janet Abu-Lughod Seminar, Led by Khaled Malas - Columbia Global Centers. globalcenters.columbia.edu.
17. Web site: Qusayr Amra a lens onto production of early Islamic art, architecture — scholar. 4 September 2017.
18. Web site: Khaled Malas > Faculty > People > NYU Gallatin .
19. Web site: Medieval Mediterranean Technologies of 'Magic' > Courses > Academics > NYU Gallatin .
20. Web site: Khaled Malas .
21. Web site: Khaled Malas .
22. Web site: Governance. Arab Image Foundation. 6 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180326122352/http://www.fai.org.lb/Template.aspx?id=4. 26 March 2018. dead.
23. Web site: البندقية: خالد ملص منقّباً عن سوريا في السماء.
24. Productive Anguish. Frieze. 31 October 2014. 167. Wilson-Goldie. Kaelen.
25. Web site: Excavating the Sky: Syria's Contemporary Landscape at Monditalia. 22 August 2014.
26. Web site: Gallery of Excavating the Sky: Syria's Contemporary Landscape at Monditalia - 1.
27. Web site: Marrakech: Art of the Red City - Independent.ie. 14 March 2016 .
28. Web site: The 6th Marrakech Biennale Thinks Beyond the "New" with a Critical Look at the Present - ArtSlant. ArtSlant. 2018-03-18. 2019-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190311235013/https://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/45400-the-6th-marrakech-biennale-thinks-beyond-the-new-with-a-critical-look-at-the-present. dead.
29. Web site: Marrakech Biennale 2016. 4 March 2016.
30. Web site: Exhibition: On Residence.
31. Web site: CCS Bard No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects . www.bard.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170321212758/http://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/no-to-the-invasion-breakdowns-and-side-effects/ . 2017-03-21.
32. Web site: Syria: Into the Light - Projects - Atassi Foundation. www.atassifoundation.com.
33. Web site: Sigil. Fruit of Sleep, Beirut 2017.
34. Web site: Postcard from Beirut. 20 October 2017.
35. Web site: ArtAsiaPacific: To The Nearest Heterotopia Sharjah Biennial13 Act Ii Part2 . artasiapacific.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171117162141/http://artasiapacific.com/Blog/ToTheNearestHeterotopiaSharjahBiennial13ActIIPart2 . 2017-11-17.
36. Web site: Checklist.
37. Web site: Broken Nature – Interni Magazine . 2019-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190328011117/http://www.internimagazine.com/last_news/news_agenda/broken-nature/ . 2019-03-28 . dead .
38. Web site: MoMA curator: "[Humanity] will become extinct. We need to design an elegant ending". 8 January 2019.
39. Web site: Broken Nature Portrait #2: Sigil Collective. YouTube.
40. Web site: AFAC :: GRANTEES. www.arabculturefund.org. 2018-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064131/https://www.arabculturefund.org/grantees/grantee.php?id=641. 2018-03-26. dead.
41. Web site: AUB - FEA Student and Alumni Conference - Program Book.
42. Web site: خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس. alaraby.co.uk.