Jury

Architecture, construction and materials

Saliba Architects is an award-winning architectural firm located in Beirut, Lebanon.
It has extensive experience in several building types spanning both the private and public sectors.
Restaurants, bars and family homes are a few of the building types Saliba Architects has been
directly involved with, resulting in successful projects that the clients and building users found
enjoyable to occupy.

At Saliba Architects, we value beauty, efficiency, logic, pure expression of materials, and clean
lines and forms that allow the architecture- the space, light, materials, spatial relationships - and
its inhabitants to thrive. The result is an architecture that is current but timeless, serene yet warm,
and uniquely reflective of the values and characters of our clients. Saliba Architects offers the
following services as part of our program. Building Design - Interior Design – Landscapes –
Product Design – Furniture Selection – Experimental Installations – 3D Rendering.

Our Process
Idea & Start
Design & Crate
Build & Finish

Vernacular Architecture, History of Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Architectural Design

As an architect, my main focus is to achieve the function needed for the building and to create the convenient environment for the users to fulfill their needs. As to achieve this, my design always follows the project's concept and the general rule that says "Form Follows Function'. Starting from the least important detail in the project, to the master function, gives the project their identity and uniformity.

architecture of place, architecture of context,

architecture of absence as creating architecture invisible / little visible in space (emptiness in architecture)

Planning & Design on Residential Single Unit to multi-storied building, Apartments & Housing.

Involved in some Urban Design Projects.

Few interiors projects including Bank,office have been successfully designed by me.

Architecture design, landscape design.

My architecture is concerned with the fundamental perception of the interrelationship between nature, human-being and architecture and the architect's architectural behavior in search of ways of coexistence through the right relationship between nature and human-being.

The architect thinks that respect and consideration for nature, which is the background of human life and architecture, is necessary, so I developed into aesthetics the meaning of Yum Chi(廉恥)", which is human ethics and takes it as my architectural attitude.A ancient famous Chinese scholar, Mang-Ja(孟子) said about “Yum Chi (廉恥)“ in his speech, "Man must be ashamed; only when he is ashamed of being free of shame does he have nothing to be ashamed of.”

"Aesthetics of Yum Chi(廉恥)" is a part of the architectural spirit, which states that in the relationship between human and nature, in the relationship between human and things, all things and human must be conscious that they are interactive with each other-dependence, so that they should "go beyond relationship to ethics.“

I understand that it is ultimately for human beings that architects care about nature, and I practice architecture based on the perception that there are "no boundaries" and “not a one thing, and it is not two“ to each other in nature, human-being and architecture.

Laertis is the Founder and Principal Architect of "O P A - Open Platform for Architecture" (2014) & "LAAV Architects" (2016), Awarded and multi-published designer of iconic Casa Brutale, Lux Aeterna Chapel, Villa Clessidra, Maralah Cabin for Infiniti QX80 (QX80 Brand Ambassador 2018), 2 x TEDx Speaker. Based in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

Architecture never can be defined. Its a feelings... And its test varies from person to person

Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

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