Raafat Majzoub is an architect, artist, writer and educator based between Boston and Beirut. He is the editor-in-chief of the Dongola Architecture Series, and co-editor of Beyond Ruins (ArchiTangle, 2024) and Design to Live (MIT Press, 2021). He is the co-founder of award-winning The Outpost magazine and creative director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices. In 2024, he received the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture research fellowship at MIT, and will be lecturing at the institute’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology where he is also an alumnus. Majzoub has previously lectured at the American University of Beirut, MISK Art Institute, Ashkal Alwan, among others, and has published and exhibited his art internationally. Website: raafatmajzoub.com Email: rmajzoub [at] mit.edu
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by Raafat Majzoub In this conversation—excerpted from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s upcoming volume, Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism (ArchiTangle, 2024) set to be published this Fall, and focusing on the renovation of the Niemeyer Guest House by East Architecture Studio in Tripoli, Lebanon—Raafat Majzoub invites Costica Bradatan to discuss failure in lieu of architecture’s role as a narrator…