The Art of Design Issue 22 2016 | Page 38

38 Rabih Geha Architects WORDS: Rabih Geha PHOTOS: Rabih Geha Rabih Geha Architects is a team of architects and designers working to create spaces that inspire. Based in Beirut, Rabih Geha is an architect with an artist’s vision and a Magicians skill. After graduating with a B.A. in architecture from The American University of Beirut (AUB), he traveled to Paris, where he earned a master’s degree in architecture from the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI). In 2006, he returned to Lebanon to open his own practice, Rabih Ge ha Architects. The in-demand design firm represents a young generation of architects breaking tradition in favour of a new approach. Setting aside the scale, building type and proposed materials, Geha first considers the story of every project; he then determines an authentic way to tell it. Nothing is off limits; he has woven extraordinary architectural tales using everything from a whale skeleton to a microscopic virus as inspiration. Each project, whether it is a sleek urban residence or an intimate villa-turned-bar, has an individual identity based on its particular context and purpose.