Baumer Lecture Series: Ghida Anouti

Anouti is an architect and writer. Her work lies at the intersection of design, semiotics, and audiovisual culture. Rooted in exploring the relationship between signs and their worldly (or other) manifestations, her research pivots on questions concerning the ontology of images and sounds. She investigates violent acoustic ecologies and experimental cinema as indices of urban transformation, particularly in postwar Lebanon. Her transdisciplinary approach that draws from media theory, acoustemology, postcolonial literature, and urbanism interrogates the historiographical abstraction of violence through image-making and world-building. Currently, she is investigating the spatial and material implications of sound, particularly in contexts shaped by conflict and urban segregation. Anouti holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT. Prior to MIT, she earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.

This event is part of the Spring 2026 Baumer Lecture Series.

The Baumer Lecture Series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work and to engage subjects both topical and enduring.