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Given the complex challenges for designers in respect of climate, biodiversity and demography, collaboration has become an increasingly important factor in the creation of design and delivery teams, and the way they are managed. What lessons have Surban Jurong, a multi-disciplinary international practice, learned in recent years?
Speaker - Patrick Fejér, Chief Executive Officer, B+H Architects
Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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Buildings and the built environment are designed and constructed according to measurable, quantifiable and gradable standards, yet a community’s interaction with their environment is not measured, or indeed measurable in this way. From Le Corbusier's 'Ineffable space' to Louis Kahn's 'Unmeasurable' criteria for great buildings, we continue this architectural pursuit to connect the intangible with the most urgent tangibles of contemporary everyday lives. We look to ask if architecture and design can move the needle on the public’s sense of agency, attachment, attraction, connection, freedom and inclusion.
Speakers -
Ar. Adrian Lai, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects
Isabella Ong, Artist and Technical Build
Ar. Ker How Wong, Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects
Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival (Speaker introduction)
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As an industry we have focussed for decades on reducing operational carbon in our buildings and the tools and methods are well understood. But what does the reduction in CO2 emissions from our power grid mean for our processes and the way we design our buildings and is it a catalyst for a different way of thinking? Do we need to rethink and assess things differently? How do we catalyse a change to a future where we look beyond being less bad and start to think in terms of the regeneration of our environment.
Speaker - Patrick Bellew, Founder and Executive Chairman, Atelier Ten
Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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A panel discussion on The Drawing Prize
Speakers -
Lily Jencks, Keeper of Vision at The Cosmic House, The Jencks Foundation
Ken Shuttleworth, Founder, Make Architects
Eldry John Infante, Registered and Licensed Architect, Illustrator, Mede Architecture
Eugene Tan, Architectural Graduate, Park + Associates
Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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There is a clear urgency to redesign cities in the face of fast-growing global urban population, urban sprawl and climate change to prioritise nature conservation, human livability and human progress. In response, the Urban Planning team at NEOM has pioneered Zero Gravity Urbanism - a three-dimensional urban idea underpinning THE LINE - which provides a robust alternative to our currently failing urban models.
Zero Gravity Urbanism, developed around the work of globally recognized architects and urban thinkers, demonstrates its capacity for a radically smaller footprint, a substantially stronger social fabric and robust model for human exchange, establishing the foundation of a new livability. Some of the ideas, innovations and technologies behind Zero Gravity Urbanism are a point of departure for rethinking our prevailing ideas of a city or human habitat. THE LINE in NEOM is an example that begins to put in motion these ideas in an environment powered 100% by renewable energy, with zero cars, zero roads and zero carbon emissions.
Speaker - Sarah Fayad, Manager in Design, Research, and Innovation, NEOM Urban Planning
Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival
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Housing affordability around the world has reached a crisis point. Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and an accelerating environmental emergency, we need solutions for city building that are more socially and economically sustainable, as well as multi-family housing that is more equitable and livable.
5468796's new publication explores the missing middle housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. Provoked by discussions that took place at a symposium they organized while teaching at the IIT in Chicago 2019, this four-volume publication [MIDDLE, MACRO, MICRO, MODELLING] expands on this hands-on research working with challenging economic and environmental circumstances, using the firm’s built works, concept masterplans and community projects as the foundations to present a ‘toolkit’ of strategies for high- quality attainable, accessible and affordable housing. It will be released with Arquine in October 2023.
The session will consist of presentation by partners Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Trevor Boddy.
Speakers - Johanna Hurme, Partner, Co-Founder, 5468796 Architecture Inc.
Sasa Radulovic, Partner, 5468796 Architecture Inc.
Chair - Trevor Boddy, Architecture Critic + Curator, Trevor Body Consulting Urban Designer
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Mario Cucinella’s forthcoming talk "The Future is a Journey to the Past", will explore past and present notions of sustainability to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide between the natural world and human activity – including, of course, architecture. Architectural history, in all its richness, becomes a relevant source of inspiration to educate us about our sustainable past while providing us with tools to become future guardians of the global environment.
A selection of projects by Mario Cucinella Architects that contribute to exploring these themes from a contemporary viewpoint and with an eye towards our future challenges will be presented. These include recent works in major cities like Milan but also in much smaller communities in Italian towns and villages demonstrating the positive impact and potential for regeneration and renewal that a single building can have in these settings.
Speaker - Mario Cucinella, Founder, MCA Mario Cucinella Architects
Chair - Jeremy Melvin, Programme Curator, World Architecture Festival
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Following the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake in February, Türkiye Design Council is spearheading the design-led revitalisation of Hatay and Adıyaman in Türkiye’s southeast. With a rare example for large-scale international collaboration, Türkiye Design Council has convened a group of leading experts in architecture, design, engineering, environmental sustainability, culture, heritage and archaeology, to contribute their expertise to the reimagining of one of the world’s most ancient places. This includes masterplanners Foster + Partners, as well as Bjarke Ingels Group and renowned Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM (Urban Renewal Center). Collectively they are working towards a vision for the next era of Hatay and Adiyaman that ensures it is resilient, sustainable and liveable for generations to come, while preserving its 2,300-year-old cultural heritage and identity. Through this process, Türkiye Design Council aims to share its experience by forming a new international model for collaboration that can be transferable to support other cities that need design and planning support after disasters, and which engages the global design community alongside local people.
Speakers - Mehmet Kalyoncu, Chairman and Founder, Türkiye Design Council
Loukia Iliopoulou, Partner, Foster + Partners
Cem Yılmaz, Founding Partner, Keym Urban Renewal Center
Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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Singapore transformation is built upon housing, parks and renewal. Going forward we need to include Super Connectors. From Settlements to Towns to Cities to Conurbations one can see changes exerted by density. Growth generated by modern economy, society, politics, culture, transportation, science and technology are powerful. Don‘t forget Super Connectors. Extreme Density is a modern phenomenon via Urbanisation. Slums and Ghost Towns appeared also. Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Concepts reacted to the squalors of Industrialisation in England. Independent Singapore adopted New Towns and Condominiums to modernise. China transformed their villages through SEZs (Special Economic Zones). The next phase of growth faces big challenges: need a New Catalyst. In Singapore, Public housing and Private housing are well established. In China, originally villagers and Government were the developers. Now it’s in the hands of the Property Market. Settlements sent Primitive Man Neighbors and “Security”; Towns brought him trade and density. High rise gave Modern Man fresh air plus Views and Prosperity today. Finally, density means Wealth, so Cities get larger and denser. We must learn to Survive or get Suffocated. Today, Cities, rich or poor urgently need help from Super Connectors.
Speaker - Cheng Siong Tan, Chairman, Archurban Architects Planners Pte Ltd
Chair - Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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Charu Kokate of Safdie Architects will delve into what drives a successful architecture practice for the WAF opening keynote. She will discuss transformative projects she has been intimately involved with, including the iconic Marina Bay Sands and its future phase; Jewel Changi Airport, which has redefined the airport experience; and the soon to be completed Surbana Jurong Headquarters, which pushes the campus beyond a traditional workplace. She will share insights gained over a notable 20+-year career.
Speaker: Charu Kokate, Senior Partner/Director, Safdie Architects
Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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LECTURE
Resilient Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Issa Diabaté, Partner, Koffi & Diabaté Architects
Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival
This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.
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Business Stream - Delivery Part Two
Exploring and understanding the business of architecture
Tadahiko Murao, Executive Officer, Nikken Sekkei
Jan Henckens, Senior Manager, Global Business Development Management Department, Nikken Sekkei Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival
This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.
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Hospitals: An Evolving Typology
With the COVID 19 pandemic raging around the world, health design is at the forefront of many people's minds, whether or not they are in the health field. While we've seen paradigm shifts and pivots in healthcare in the past, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is so significant - we believe we will see a true global transformation of health design as a result. Hospitals will evolve their operations due to the pandemic and other changing global conditions and so, a typological evolution must continue to occur in hospital design. Jean Mah and Ralph Johnson will discuss the historical evolution of the modern hospital, the current state of the art of hospital design with case studies from their current work, and how the hospital typology might continue to evolve in the future.
Ralph Johnson, Global Design Director, Perkins + Will
Jean Mah, Principal - Health, Perkins + Will
Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival
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Business Stream - Nurturing and Developing Talent:
Exploring and understanding the business of architecture
Kim Herforth Nielsen, Co-Founder & Principal, 3XN Architects
James von Klemperer, President & Design Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Tracy Meller, Partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Post Covid Shopping: Retail Reloaded
Laurie Chetwood will be looking at how the current challenges facing the High Street are an opportunity for designers to participate in repurposing redundant town and city centres. He will discuss how not only high street buildings, but also urban infrastructure systems are being repurposed. Logistics is no longer just a big box on the side of the motorway keeping the rain off stored goods but is evolving into urban logistics: an integral part of a repurposed urban supply chain, and the driving force behind the new social and community-focused experiential retail.
Laurie Chetwood, Chairman, Chetwoods Architects
Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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Thinkspace
Design, the Environment & Public Health
Professor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering |Director, UCL Centre for Transport Studies
Professor Allyson Pollock, Director, Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science
Sandy Nairne, Writer & Curator
This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.
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WAF Keynote: Prototypes for the Future
We live in extraordinary times and, in many ways, the challenges facing cities, cultures and the planet have never been greater. Some have speculated that the global COVID pandemic is merely first tremors of a vast shockwave brought on by environmental decline, failed socio-economic policy and cynical political manipulation. Perhaps more than ever before, the need for reconsidering the fundamental values, agendas and possibilities of architecture and urbanism is clear. We must begin to imagine fundamentally new questions and trajectories that go beyond the lifeless, recycled formalisms, neoDarwinian ethics and vacant marketing-speech—we must begin to answer the question of how can we, as architects, work towards a living future for our spaces, societies and species? In this talk, Ole Scheeren, Principal of international architectural practice Buro Ole Scheeren, will explore the role of this question in the work of the office and how the search for an answer has informed the development of several of the office's unprecedented and city-defining structures.
Ole Scheeren, Principal, Büro Ole Scheeren
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Business Stream - Delivery Part One
The Business of Architecture: Project Managing Art
The business of architecture is often a struggle between the designers who want to design and the managers who want to manage. Astute project delivery planning can turn this clash into a workable dynamic, centered on common goals of quality, responsibility, and service to the client—a way to manage expectations but produce something meaningful. Honing project management to find a balance between artistic achievement and prudent oversight will help businesses make money and strive for excellence.
Dean Kaardal, Vice President, Regional Business Leader - Buildings, Canada West, Stantec
Robin Nicholson, Partner, Cullinan Studio
Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival
This episode was recorded live at WAFVirtual 2020.
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Post Covid Schools: How the Pandemic can Lead to Better Schools
Following on from alma-nac's publication 'Simple Solutions for Safer Schools' Chris will be talking about some of the ways schools in England are being innovative in dealing with Covid restrictions. He will also reflect on how positive lessons learnt from the pandemic can influence school design in the future.
Chris Bryant, Director, alma-nac
Melanie Mortimer, Head of Design Technology, Dulwich Prep London
Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival
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Business Stream - Winning Work
The ability to win work in our hypercompetitive, post-Covid world is a skill architects need now more than ever. This session will focus on the criteria that clients, in all sectors, consider most significant, and ways you can make your firm stand out.
Susanna Sirefman, President, Dovetail Design Strategists
Lee Polisano, President, PLP Architecture
Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival
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