Khaled Malas

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Islamic Art and Architecture. Buildings and their representations; design-as-research; histories and theories of art, architecture, urbanism, magic, and medicine. The production, circulation, and consumption of efficacious images.

Khaled Malas is an architect and art historian whose research examines images and the role of image-making technologies in shaping places, both real and imagined. His dissertation focuses on medieval magico-medicinal bowls depicting the Kaaba.

He is the principal of Sigil, an art/design collective whose work has been widely exhibited, published, and commissioned.

The exhibition of his most recent work, The Longest Words: Three Talismans for Conditioning the Air (Beirut, 2024–), has been indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing war.

Khaled teaches at NYU's Gallatin School, the Pratt Institute's History of Art and Design Department, and the Cooper Union's School of Architecture.