Conference
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Day 01.Monday, 5 October 2009 |
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| 08.30 |
Registration And Morning Coffee |
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| 08.50 |
Chairman’s Opening Remarks And Welcome Speech
Peter Rees
City Planning Officer
City Of London
UK
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| 09.00 |
Superman+Cybertecture
How can we all be supermen?
Living and talking buildings
Designing buildings like planets
James Law
Chief Cybertect And Chairman
James Law Cybertecture
Hong Kong
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| 10.00 |
Economic Outlook On The GCC In Times Of Recession
This session will give an insight into the GCC economies in times of recession and global meltdown. This is a must attend session for everyone interested in working in this region.
Dr. Jurgen Herre
Managing Director
Hines
UAE
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| 11.00 |
Networking And Refreshment Break
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| 11.10 |
Integrated Design In The Middle East
The integration of architecture, engineering and operations at the least, is required to bring about a sustainable and cost effective design. This concept is hardly practiced in this region. The presentation will address how to best implement the integrated approach in the developments of the Middle East.
Mario Seneviratne FIMechE., PEng.,
LEED Faculty Member
Managing Director – Green Technologies FZCO
UAE
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| 12.10 |
Wacky Banking + Wacky Buildings = Global Meltdown
This session will outline the global environmental crisis as well as the financial crash and discuss how the “virtual” world of the internet has resulted in social detachment from a sense of “neighborhood”. Architects’ designs for “iconic/wacky” buildings have been a futile attempt to establish a sense of identity in “non-places” across the planet. We are losing the ability to adapt towns and cities to our needs and retain the vital strengths of our urban surroundings. The new financial climate means that architects will need to lead the way in relearning those vital skills
Peter Rees
City Planning Officer
City Of London
UK
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| 13.10 |
How Buildings Can Become Icons In A Post Iconic Age
Will Alsop says that no architect sets out to design an iconic building - it is the general public. This session will discuss who decides whether something becomes an icon or not. Will, through this session will explain how icons emerge from a process of design that involves the general public
Will Alsop, RA
Founder
Will Alsop Architects
UK
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| 14.10 |
Lunch For Speakers And Delegates
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| 15.10 |
Challenges Faced By International Architects When Working In The GCC
It is hot, either very dry or very humid. It is very difficult to understand who is really in charge. There are different approval processes by government agencies and utility companies. Architects and engineers are always asked to deliver in a rush but the clients cannot always make up their minds. Yet, there is liquidity, financing, necessity and reason to create master plans, infrastructure, urbanity, and new buildings of most every type and use. This session will outline what architects need to know about the GCC region before they start working here.
Steven Miller, FAIA, RIBA
Managing Director Dubai
FXFOWLE International LLC
UAE
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| 16.10 |
Beyond Buildings: Architects As Infrastructure Designers
Sudhir Jambhekar will discuss how the design of Shiekh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing responds to its context and its programme. He will also discuss how the project’s integrated design approach was achieved in order to create an environmentally-responsible bridge and Dubai’s newest icon.
Sudhir Jambhekar, FAIA, LEED
Senior Partner
FXFOWLE International LLC
USA
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| 17.10 |
Urban Security And Design
Through innovative design and new technologies, urban planners and architects can lead in efforts to respond to a range of public security menaces: extreme weather, civil unrest, industrial accidents, natural catastrophes, contagious illnesses and terrorist attacks. Security-conscious urban design offers ways to manage such threats, through the application of such key principles as deterrence, detection, control, mitigation and resilience. As cities all over the world implement new security systems and procedures, architects can help to ensure that these measures are not only effective, but also enhance — rather than detract from — urban amenity.
Thomas Vonier, FAIA, RIBA
Architect
France
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| 18.10 |
Chairman’s Closing Remarks
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| 18.20 |
End Of Conference Day One
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