E-mail:
zein@usd.cas.cz
Education
• 2019 – now: PHD CANDIDATE, AVU, Prague, CZ (2021-2023 maternity leave)
• 2015: DIPLÔME D’URBANISTE DESA, with distinction, ESA, Paris, FR
• 2013: MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• 2010: MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Relevant professional experience
• 2025–now, ÚSD AV ČR, Prague, RESEARCHER, project OP JAK Urbanity (part time)
• 03/2022-09/2023, organised by IPR Praha, JURY MEMBER AND GUEST EXPERT urban and landscape competitive dialogue for Rohan Island
• 2022, GHMP, DPP, Prague, CO-CURATOR of the festival Čekání proměny with Eliška Málkova
• 2020, ViPer gallery, Prague, CO-CURATOR of the exhibition Pro/Měna Karlín with Eliška Málkova
• Sept – Dec 2019, ARNIKA, Prague, EXPERT ANALYST FOR URBAN PLANNING, monitoring, organisation Udržitelné středy v MKP
• Summer 2018, GOGOLAK + GRASSE, Prague, URBANIST participation to an urban competition for a public square in Prague to 2nd round
• 09/2016 – 10/2017, CCEA MOBA, Prague, URBANIST organisation of international competitions for public buildings
Pedagogical Experience
• LS 2024/2025: LECTURER Urbanism IV – Mechanismy realitního města, UMPRUM
• LS 2023/2024: LECTURER Urbanism IV – Dopady digitálních technologíi, UMPRUM
• ZS 2023/2024: LECTURER Urbanism IV – Voda, půda a město, UMPRUM
• 2020/2021: LECTURER Elective seminar – Město, Svět a Periferie, AVU
• 2018–2023: LECTURER Urban Studies – Critical City, ARCHIP
• 2018–2023: LECTURER Urban Studies – Psychology and the City, ARCHIP
• 2018–2023: LECTURER Urban Studies – Fundaments of Urbanism, ARCHIP
Other Architectural Practice
• 19/11/2021–27/02/2022: Kampa Museum, EXHIBITION SCENOGRAPHY Jiří Kolář, Slovník Metod
• 2022: SSG, Banská Bystrica, FREELANCE ARCHITECT Knižnice Bethlenového domu
• 2019: Šalounův ateliér, AVU, Prague, FREELANCE ARCHITECT (with architect Barbara Swierc) Obytná socha, zázemí pro host. umělce
• 2020: Letná, Prague, FREELANCE ARCHITECT, Domek ve dvoru, zázemí pro spolek Záhonky pro školky
• 2015: Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, CO-FOUNDER & ARCHITECT collective allotment garden Jardin du Monde for campus residents
• 2014: EST-CE AINSI, Aubervilliers, Paris, France, ASSISTANT ARCHITECT, exhibition scenography for urban artist Tania Mourraud in Pompidou-Metz
• 2010/2011: ENRIC MIRALLES BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE, PICH-AGUILERA, VORA, Barcelona, Spain, INTERN
Talks
• 11/2024: guest at conference Komu slouží veřejný prostor?, GHMP, UMPRUM, Prague.
• 11/2021: discussion moderator at symposium Gesta emancipace, AVU, Prague.
• 05/2019: talk Nehnuteľnosť časopriestoru, KAT VŠVU, Bratislava.
• 01/2019: talk Mesto ako kryštalizácia násilia, MESTOLASKA, Košice.
• 04/2018: guest tutor at Pavilions and the Future of Housing Estates in Lublin, Open territory foundation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University & Lublin University of Technology, V4PARTICIPATION Słowacki and Mickiewicza estates, Lublin, Poland.
• 03/2018: speaker Spatio-temporal Reference Points: The Case of Syria at PubliCDemos International Study Group on Spatial Dimensions of Public Memory, EHESS, Paris.
• 03/2018: talk Nemovitost války. Od destrukce k rekonstrukci, Vi Per gallery.
• 01/2018: guest speaker at New Utopias in a Post-Socialist Panel Housing Estate ?, Never Never School, Spolka, Košice, Slovakia.
- other active participation include: FF UK Prague CZ, PopMesse festival Brno CZ, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera Prague CZ, Festival Za Prahu Udržitelnou a Sousedskou Prague
Workshops
• 1–11 June 2020: VIPER GALLERY, Prague, Czech Republic
CO-ORGANISER with Eliška Málkova Speculative Scenarios for Aff ordable Housing
• 3–8 September, 2018: Spolka, Ťahanovce, Košice, Slovakia
GUEST New Utopias in a Post-Socialist Panel Housing Estate?, Never Never School
• 23–26 April, 2018: V4PARTICIPATION, Słowacki and Mickiewicza estates,, Lublin, Poland
GUEST Pavilions and the Future of Housing Estates in Lublin, Open territory foundation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University & Lublin University of Technology
• 14–29 August, 2017: CATALYTIC ACTION, Bekaa valley, Lebanon
VOLUNTEER Playground for Syrian & Lebanese children for the al-Makassed school, Ghazze, Bekaa in partnership with Social Support Society and its Relief and Education Assistance program
• June 2015: ÉCOLE SPÉCIALE D’ARCHITECTURE, Paris, France
ASSISTANT ORGANISER A City Within a City : the Hospital Complex, St-Vincent de Paul, Paris XIV
• 2011–2015: AS PARTICIPANT, Tempo Livre in Campo Limpo, São Paulo, Brasil; WAT_UNESCO 2014, Binzhou, China; AIX 2040, Aix au fi l du tramway, Aix-en-Provence, France; A Break From Traffic, Hiroshima, Japan; Extractive Economies, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
Publications
• Zein, Lynda: Transform the expectations of what architecture is. Interview with Dubravka Sekulić. In On Teaching, NT 23 Zine, ed. Miroslav Pazdera. Praha: FA ČVUT, STO foundation, 2024.
• Zein, Lynda and Málkova, Eliška (eds): Dostupné Spekulace – Karlín Pak. Praha: Vi Per gallery, 2020.
• Zein, Lynda: A Real-Estate Led Demographic Destruction in Homs and Damascus. In The Funambulist, no.11 “Designed Destructions,” May/June 2017.
other publications include:
• March, 2025, A2 MAGAZIN, Blízký Východ, issue no. 6/2025, Vypravět druhou stranu příběhu, S Ahmadem Gharbiehem o kritickém mapování v urbanismu, editors: Lukáš Rychetský, Matěj Metelec
• January, 2025, A2 MAGAZIN, Architektura a lidská práva, issue no. 1/2025, Dějiny utrpenia, S Jasperom Humpertom o metódach forenznej architektúry, editor: Alžběta Medková
• December, 2024, ART ANTIQUES, Čo má architektúra spoločné s ľudskými právami?
• January, 2023, A2 MAGAZIN, 30 let od rozdělení, issue no. 01/2023 součást Česko-slovenská anketa o proměnách veřejného prostoru, Alžběta Medková, editors: Lukáš Rychetský, Matěj Metelec
• December, 2020, ART ANTIQUES, Ako fénix z popola? Proměna Karlína
• October, 2020, FLASH ART, To, čo nie je bežná prax.
• 21 April, 2020, A2LARM, (Ne)fungování Institutu plánování a rozvoje v postsocialistickém městě with Václav Orcígr
• 4 March, 2020, ERA21, Logistické centra, issue no. 1/2020, Dobrovíz: Bez ladu se skladem. Dopady logistického skladu na život v předměstí
editors: Kateřína Frejlachová, Miroslav Pazdera, Tadeaš Říha, Martin Špičák
• Winter 2018, ARTALK REVUE, Střet, issue no. 3, Demografická destrukce řízená trhem s nemovitostmi v Damašku a Homsu
editor: Cyril Říha
• 2018, A2 MAGAZIN, Sinofuturism, issue no. 19/2018, Architektura Kontrarevoluce v Alžírsku: rozhovor se Samiou Henni, editor: Karel Kouba