Meet the Author
Ziad Jamaleddine
Ziad Jamaleddine is a co-founder of L.E.FT Architects (New York/Beirut) and an assistant professor at Columbia University, GSAPP. He is the recipient of the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York (2010), and was selected as one of the Nine Arab American Architects You Should Know by the AIA (2024). Jamaleddine is a practitioner and scholar with a research focus on mosque architecture. His writings have been published in Places Journal (2020), Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (Brill, 2024), and International Journal of Islamic Architecture (Intellect, 2025). His research and design work has been exhibited at Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016), Milan Architecture Triennale (2018), Sharjah Architecture Triennale (2019), and most recently Jeddah Islamic Art Biennale (2023). L.E.FT was selected in 2025 to the AD100, The Best Designers in the Middle East and North Africa. L.E.FT’s work includes Shakib Arslan Mosque, Lebanon (2017), winner of the Interfaith Design (AIA) & Partners of Sacred Places Award (2018), and the Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture (2020), and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices, Vassar College (2023), winner of the Interfaith Design (AIA) & Partners of Sacred Places Award: Adaptive Re-Use (2024).
