Céline earned her Bachelor degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 2008. Her final year project was granted the Dean’s award for Creative Achievement. She took part in various internships in Beirut, Paris and New York City between 2005 and 2007. Following her studies, she worked at DW5 / Bernard Khoury Architects for five years (2008-2013) where she followed the different phases of projects. She has since been working independently on various architecture and design projects she has dubbed ”Mécanismes”.
Her sister Tatiana, joined “Architecture et Mécanismes” in September 2014 after earning her Master’s degree in Architecture from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA), where she graduated with distinction.
Their vision about product design is characterized by radical, rough, structured and well detailed elements getting together to form small scale units. Their concepts are always inspired from the context in which they are building, and hence Beirut and its chaos have surely injected fuel into their creations.