Carlos Moubarak established the eponymous architectural studio in 2007, five years after achieving at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in Beirut, his Master’s Degree in Architecture awarded with Honours and multiple distinctions:
Prize winner of the Chadirji Foundation Award 2002 (Lebanese national grand prize for the year's best graduation project), Beirut Order of Engineers and Architects Award 2002 and Samir Mokbel Award 2002 (ALBA’s School of Architecture 1st prizes), Official selection Archiprix International 2003 (international biennale exhibition of the world's best graduation projects), Istanbul, Turkey.
Carlos Moubarak is currently design director of the practice and is member of the Beirut Order of Engineers and Architects. Alongside his architectural praxis and a career marked by applying architectural thinking to domains beyond, Carlos Moubarak has combined academic work as he has taught architectural studio at the School of Architecture & Design of the Lebanese American University (LAU) and at the School of Architecture of the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). He was also member of the ALBA’s External Relations and Communications Committee where he was in charge of organizing conferences, workshops and lectures with international architects and critics. Carlos Moubarak is regularly invited to participate as a jury member in architectural competitions organized by local universities and other architecture dedicated centers and foundations (Lebanese University, Lebanese American University, Chadirji Foundation).
Following the terrible Beirut explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital on August 4th 2020, killed more than 218 people, wounded around 6500 others and left 300,000 residents homeless and an entire population traumatized, Carlos Moubarak launched Beirut Memorial Park, a civic initiative embodied in a global and emblematic cultural act. Based on societal, urban and architectural considerations, the memorial scheme is intended to become an influential project to reflect on the tragic event, to heal the national psyche and to transfer the history of a nation to future generations.
Also in the wake of the August 4th tragedy, Carlos Moubarak co-founded The Beirut Foundation, an independent and non-for-profit organization which will undertake seminal projects to preserve the collective memory and envision the future of Beirut City.
