Bernard KHOURY was born in Beirut in 1968. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1990/B. ARCH 1991) and obtained a Masters in Architectural Studies from Harvard University (M. Arch 1993). In 2001, the municipality of Rome awarded him the honorable mention of the Borromini Prize given to architects under 40 years of age. In 2004, he received the Architecture+ Award.

He is the co-founder of the Arab Center for Architecture and was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, l’Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris and the American University of Beirut.

He was the architect and the co-curator of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 14th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014. KHOURY started an independent practice in 1993. Over the past thirty years, his office has developed an international reputation and a significant and diverse portfolio of projects, both locally and in more than fifteen countries.