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]
Excavating the Sky, The 14th International Architecture Exhibition: "Fundamentals: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014". Directed by
Rem Koolhaas, 2014 [10][23][24][25][26]
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]
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 Verzier (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)
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