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TXKL Architectes Urbanistes – France
Meriem Chabani is a Partner at the architecture and urban design office TXKL, and President of independent research platform New South. Through an international practice, she engages with territories in tension: designing, building, negotiating, and representing post- and neo-colonial contexts.
She currently teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, after having taught urban planning at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
A recipient of a LafargeHolcim “Next Generation” award for Sustainable Development in 2014, Meriem develops key projects at TXKL, including research on the post-industrial city, the interaction between sacred and secular space, and housing for global south environments.
Meriem has spoken at numerous international design events, including IKA Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine in Paris, the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development, the Department of Architecture at the University of Algiers, and the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi.
Her work, If Algae Mattered, a theoretical reworking of Mediterranean borders, was exhibited at the Fourth Istanbul Design Biennial in 2018.
In 2019, Meriem was selected by the Fédération Nationale des Agences d’Urbanisme as an expert in preparation for the Africa-France Summit.
