The Paris-based, Lebanon-born architect—and designer of the forthcoming Serpentine Pavilion ‘À table’—spoke to RECORD about her nature-forward philosophy, the effect of Beirut's 2020 explosion on the city, and tracing history through archeology.
Not every architect would compete to renovate a department-store facade situated between a supermarket and an Applebee's on a sign-saturated, multilane highway 6,000 miles from home.