Rania Ghosn

Rania Ghosn is partner of DESIGN EARTH and Assistant Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT. Rania holds a Doctorate of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Master in Geography from University College London, and a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut. Her work examines the geographies of technological systems such as energy, trash, water, and agriculture to open up aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and urbanism. She is the recipient of the Boghossian Foundation Lebanon Prize, Architectural League of New York’s Prize for Young Architects + Designers, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards. Her work has been supported by grants from Graham Foundation, MIT Fay Chandler, UM Research on the City. Rania is founding editor of the New Geographies journal and editor-in-chief of NG 2: Landscapes of Energy (Harvard GSD, 2010). She is author with El Hadi Jazairy of Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2018) and Geographies of Trash (2015).