Karim Nader Studio

Karim Nader Studio is an architecture practice with offices in Beirut, Dubai and Paris, founded in 2016 when Karim Nader returned to independent practice. It calls its work “novel” architecture: spaces ancestral yet unseen, neither nostalgic nor futuristic, rooted in a specific site, its landscape and its memory.

Nader graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1999 and took a master’s at Rice University in 2003; he was a founding member of Blankpage from 2008 to 2016. Built work includes the Amchit Residence, Villa Kali, A Mineral House in Hadira and the renovation of Immeuble de l’Union, the 1952 Beirut landmark by Antoine Tabet and Lucien Cavro, reopened for We Design Beirut 2025 with Atelier Trente Trois. The book For a Novel Architecture won the Geste d’Or in 2021.