rosana elkhatib
is a Palestinian designer, researcher, and
curator whose work focuses on the mutual construction of bodies and spaces
as they are complicated by their political, social, and religious environs. She
is a co-founding principal of
feminist architecture collaborative (f-architecture), a three-woman architectural research enterprise she co-founded with gabrielle printz and virginia black.
rosana is currently researching the historic and contemporary implications of Zionist carcerality on Palestinian resistance, constructs of motherhood, womanhood, and queerness, and collective liberation. Most recently, she published with f-architecture “vial Acts” in Yale’s journal Perspecta 56, focusing on sperm smuggling and reproductive resistance. She remains deeply committed to writing on and laboring towards Palestinian liberation.
rosana has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and has worked for multiple design firms including Henning Larsen, REX, and Selldorf Architects.
rosana holds a M.S. in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP and a B.Arch from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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f-architecture is aimed at disentangling the contemporary spatial politics and technological appearances of bodies, intimately and globally. Their projects traverse theoretical and activist registers to locate new forms of architectural work through critical relationships with collaborators across the globe. Projects are located in New York City, on the US-Mexico border, in the Amazon of Ecuador, in Jordan, and in Lebanon. Winners of the 2019 Architectural League of New York League Prize, their writing and work has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, MIT Thresholds, Ed, the Real Review, -NESS, and Girls Like Us, and at institutions including the Morgan Library and Museum, the New School, FRAC, Darat Al Funun, and UN-Habitat.
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rosana is currently researching the historic and contemporary implications of Zionist carcerality on Palestinian resistance, constructs of motherhood, womanhood, and queerness, and collective liberation. Most recently, she published with f-architecture “vial Acts” in Yale’s journal Perspecta 56, focusing on sperm smuggling and reproductive resistance. She remains deeply committed to writing on and laboring towards Palestinian liberation.
rosana has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and has worked for multiple design firms including Henning Larsen, REX, and Selldorf Architects.
rosana holds a M.S. in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP and a B.Arch from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
︎ my resume
︎︎ my work portfolio
︎ me
f-architecture is aimed at disentangling the contemporary spatial politics and technological appearances of bodies, intimately and globally. Their projects traverse theoretical and activist registers to locate new forms of architectural work through critical relationships with collaborators across the globe. Projects are located in New York City, on the US-Mexico border, in the Amazon of Ecuador, in Jordan, and in Lebanon. Winners of the 2019 Architectural League of New York League Prize, their writing and work has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, MIT Thresholds, Ed, the Real Review, -NESS, and Girls Like Us, and at institutions including the Morgan Library and Museum, the New School, FRAC, Darat Al Funun, and UN-Habitat.
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