Beyti Beytak • بيتي بيتك • My Home is Your Home

The exhibition Beyti Beytak • بيتي بيتك • My Home Is Your Home. comes to Qatar in Autumn 2026 following its debut at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2025, where it marked Qatar's first official participation in the international Architecture Exhibition. Beyti Beytak explores how architecture responds to ideas of home, hospitality and belonging across the MENASA region. Its second iteration in Qatar expands on these through presentation, programming and public engagement opportunities. This is the first time that the Art Mill Museum and Qatar Museums invite visitors to Fahad bin Ali Palace.

Among the pioneering modern architects represented are Nayyar Ali Dada, AAU Anastas, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Sumudu Athukorala, Meriem Chabani, Rifat Chadirji, Aziza Chaouni, Counterspace Studio, Sumaya Dabbagh, DAAZ Office, Elizabeth Diller, Michel Designe, Balkrishna Doshi, Michel Écochard, ELEMENTAL, Hassan Fathy, Field Operations, Nabil Haque, Rizvi Hassan, Heneghan Peng, Herzog & de Meuron, Arata Isozaki, Ibrahim Jaidah, Sumedha Kelegama, Yasmeen Lari, Ajmal Maiwandi, Mangera Yvars Architects, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Sameep Padora, I. M. Pei, Carl Pruscha, André Ravéreau, Raj Rewal, Manuelle Roche, Ahmed Hossam Saafan, Abeer Seikaly, Minnette de Silva, sOne x NEW SOUTH × Statement, Studio Imara, Marina Tabassum, Irushi Tennekoon, Twist + Whitley, UN Studio, X Architects, Jean-François Zevaco, Ola Zad. Their diverse practice explores socially engaged, environmentally conscious and context-responsive approaches to architecture.

Presented in the palace's courtyard, Souq Al Liqa is a newly commissioned work by Iraqi Architect Ola Saad Znaad. A reconstruction of the Mudhif, a type of community structure used throughout the marshland communities of southwestern Iraq. Souq Al Liqa connects the communal role of women in the Ahwar, a region in Southern Iraq, to a space that is envisioned as a living, breathing realm. Here the intangible heritage of Marsh Arab women becomes visible, honoured and economically empowering. Reorienting the architecture of hospitality around the women of Ahwar whose weaving and storytelling has sustained the marshes through generations.

Curated by Aurélien Lemonier, Art Mill Museum Senior Curator of Architecture, Design and Gardens; Sean Anderson, Guest Co-Curator and Scholar; assisted by Virgile Alexandre, Independent Curator, and Farah Al Sidiky, Art Mill Museum Senior Curatorial Researcher. Beyti Beytak is designed by Cookies and its visual identity by Gaggero Works.