NIGHTRISE

Nightrise is an architectural practice that mobilizes the spatial and emancipatory potential of darkness to imagine new possibilities for architecture.

Mohamad Nahleh is Assistant Professor of architecture at The Ohio State University. His research and practice engage the fields of environmental history, cultural anthropology, and postcolonial literature in expanding the role and imagination of the night in architecture. Recognizing the night as a space rather than a time, his work unsettles the current interchangeability between ‘night architecture’ and ‘light design’ by charging architecture with the urgency to overcome the Western metaphors of light and darkness. Nahleh holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut and a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT, where he also taught for several years.