Khaled Malas (Arabic: خالد ملص)^[1] is a Syrian architect and art historian. He is principal and co-founder of the Sigil Collective,^{[2] [3]} alongside Salim al-Kadi, Alfred Tarazi and Jana Traboulsi.^[4][5][6]

Malas studied architecture at the American University of Beirut^[7] and at Cornell University.^[8] He is currently a doctoral candidate in medieval Islamic Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.^[9][10] Prior to joining the Institute, he was an architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Herzog & de Meuron.^[8]

His work has been widely exhibited and published. Sigil's work has also been shown around the world including in Venice,^[11][12] Oslo,^[6] Annandale-on-Hudson,^[13][14] Beirut,^[15] Dubai, Marrakech,^[16] and Milan. He has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP),^[4] and at Columbia University's Columbia Global Center/Studio-X in Amman, where he led the second Janet Abu Lughod seminar, which focused on Qusayr Amra.^[17][18] Malas has also taught on Medieval magic at New York University,^[19][20] Arabic literature at the Cooper Union,^[21][22] and art and design history at the Pratt Institute.^[23]

Malas is a member of the Arab Image Foundation's General Assembly.^{[24][citation needed]}

• The Longest Words: Three Talismans for Conditioning the Air (2024), “And from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses” ^[25]

• Excavating the Sky, The 14th International Architecture Exhibition: "Fundamentals: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014". Directed by Rem Koolhaas, 2014^{[11][26][27][28][29]}
• Current Power in Syria, The 6th Marrakech International Biennale: "Not New Now". Curated by Reem Fadda, 2016^{[16][30][31][32]}
• Monuments of the Everyday, Oslo arkitekturtriennale: "After Belonging". Curated by After Belonging, 2016 ^[6][33]
• Monuments of the Everyday, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson: "No to the Invasion: From the Archive". Curated by Fawz Kabra and Tarek al-Ariss, 2017^[34]
• #therevolutionisamirror, Concrete (Alserkal Avenue), Dubai: "Syria: Into the Light". Curated by Mouna Atassi, 2017.^[35]
• Electric Resistance — Monument to a Destroyed Windmill, Sharjah Biennial 13: "Fruits of Sleep" Sursock Museum, Beirut. Curated by Christine Tohme and Reem Fadda, 2017^[36][37][38]
• Birdsong, XXII Esposizione Internazionale 12: "Broken Nature" La Triennale di Milano, Milan. Curated by Paola Antonelli, 2019^{[39][37][40][41][42][43]}

• 2015: 'The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Visual Arts Grant'^[44]
• 2016: 'Distinguished Young Alumni Award of the Architecture & Design Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Awarded in recognition of interdisciplinary creativity and activism.^[45]

• 2016: "Monuments of the Everyday" ‘After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit’ by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio G. Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero (eds.)(Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016)
• 2016: "Review: Pattern, Color, Light: Architectural Ornament in the Near East (500–1000)," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75 No. 2 (2016): pp. 238–239
• 2017: "The body, writhing in pain, sits before an intoxicated audience" ‘No to the Invasion: Breakdown and Side-effects’ edited by Fawz Kabra (Annandale-on-Hudson: CCS Bard, 2017)
• 2018: A Cenotaph Broken Nature website^[46]

• Watenpaugh Heghnar Zeitlian, “Cultural Heritage and the Arab Spring: War over Culture, Culture of War, and Culture War,” "International Journal of Islamic Architecture 5" (2016): pp. 245–63
• العربي الجديذ - خالد ملص: بحثاً عن عمارة الناس^[47]
• Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen "Practical Magic: Can Art Make a Difference in Assad Syria?," Bookforum(Apr/May 2017): pp. 42–43
• فوّاز طرابلسي "حفريات السماء - حفريات الأرض" دم الأخوين: العنف في الحروب الأهليّة (بيروت: رياض الريّس للكتب و النشر, 2017), pp. 207–227
• Kafka, George "Active Witness", Icon Architecture and Design Culture (May 2019); pp. 52–60
• Davidson, Cynthia "Paola Antonelli on Broken Nature", Log (Winter/Spring 2019); page 51
• Roche, Daniel “The Chicago Architecture Biennial’s fifth iteration, embodies the “beauty and horror” of our global moment, The Architect’s Newspaper November 9, 2023