Leen Katrib is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky. Her work investigates architecture’s materiality and historiography and designs new frameworks for marginalized histories and material culture. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (2025), Public Voices Fellowship of The OpEd Project (2025), Art Omi (2024), MacDowell Fellowship / National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2022), Harry der Boghosian Fellowship (2021-22), Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship (2016-18), Howard Crosby Butler Travel Grant (2017), William & Neoma Timme Travel Grant (2014), and George H. Mayr Travel Grant (2013). Her work and writing have been published in The Architect's Newspaper, Dezeen, Deem, Future Anterior, Pidgin, Room One Thousand, and various proceedings, and has been exhibited at Lexington Art League, Syracuse University, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in South Korea, Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City, and the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. 

Leen holds a MArch from Princeton University, where she was editor of Pidgin, and a BArch from the University of Southern California, and has practiced in New York City at Marvel, LTL Architects, Peter Marino, and OMA. 

historiography; materiality; archives; pedagogy; urban renewal; university campus; preservation; ruins; rubble