Speakers
| Venue: PALME Conference Room, Sheikh Saeed Hall, Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre |
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011 |
Delegate fee: US$ 100 / AED 370 | |
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Barry Hannaford
Director
dpa lighting consultants
Dubai, UAE
Barry Hannaford is a renowned lighting designer with 40 years experience in the lighting field. Through innovative and strategic lighting concepts he has developed and overseen the work from the London office from 1996 to 2004 and from the Dubai office since 2004. As well as many projects in the U.K., Barry has worked in over 30 countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Libya, Syria, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ireland, Argentina, China, amongst others.
He is a Professional Member of the IALD, I.Eng, ACIBSE, and MSLL.
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Dr. Yasser Mahgoub
Associate Professor of Architecture
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Engineering,
Qatar University
Doha, Qatar
Dr. Yasser Mahgoub, is an architect, academic, and scholar. Received B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1978 and Doctorate in Architecture from The University of Mich igan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1990. He has held several academic positions since 1990 at Ain Shams Unive rsity, United Arab Emirates University, Kuwait Unive rsity and Qatar University. Practiced as a professional architect in Egypt and was a founding member in 1980 of “The Egyptian Designers” architectural firm in Cairo, Egypt. Participated as an architect consultant in Egypt, UAE and Kuwait. Teaches architectural design studios, architectural research, environment and behavior in architecture and architectural professional practice. His research interests include social and cultural aspects of architecture, sustainable architecture, architectural education and the impact of globalization on architecture. Published several refereed research papers and book chapters. Dr. Mahgoub served as a reviewer in the Aga Khan Award 2010 Cycle |
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George Katodrytis, RIBA
Associate Professor of Architecture
Director of Scholarship and Outreach
College of Architecture, Art and Design
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE
George Katodrytis is an architect involved in practice, teaching and research. He is currently Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah. He studied and taught at the Architectural Association in London and he has been a visiting professor at various schools around the world. He has built a number of projects in Europe and the Middle East as well as published widely on contemporary architecture, urbanism, cultural theory and digital media. The work addresses the ‘city’, especially as it is evolving in the 21st century. He has adopted digital technology and scripting as tools for establishing new formal and performative models in architecture. |
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Luke Bonner
Lighting Designer
Production Technology LLC
Dubai, UAE
Luke Bonner is Event Lighting Designer with over 11 years of experience in live events within the region. Since arriving in Dubai in 2000, he continues to design corporate events, weddings, launches, concerts, fashion and theatre shows, not only in a full lighting design capacity, but also on overall creative event design level.
Completing his Master of Lighting degree through Queensland University of Technology (QUT) this year, Luke continues to present his designs through use of visualization-software that was successfully used on the recent 2009 and 2010 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 concerts. |
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Matei Paquin
Interactive and Lighting Experience Specialist
Moment Factory
Montreal, Canada
Holding a Master's degree in Interaction Design from Milan, Italy, Matei enjoys exploring the fertile playground of avant-garde projects involving the relation of a user to his/her immediate context, at various scales and across a diversity of media (people, object, media & spaces). Imbued with Milan's legendary tradition of design and architecture, and lead by world-class designers and architects, Matei has contributed to develop an unconventional way of designing and reflecting on society with a different eye. Matei's projects have been exhibited in Italy in prestigious exhibitions, notably the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Part of the Moment Factory creative team since 2005, Matei is a senior experiential and interaction designer, leading projects from conception until delivery.
One of Matei's projects, Moment Factory's recent premiere of North America's first permanent interactive giant exterior LED wall, won several awards and attracted international coverage. For hockey's Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Communications, he recently delivered two interactive exhibit spaces enhancing the fan and visitor experience. Matei is also part of Moment Factory's project development team, identifying project opportunities and elaborating strategies tailored to client’s objectives, needs and dreams. |
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Michael Hughes
Associate Professor
Head of the Department of Architecture,
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE
Educated at the University of Virginia and Princeton University Michael Hughes is now Head of Department | Architecture at the American University of Sharjah and co-principal, with Selma Catovic Hughes, in the firm Catovic Hughes Design. The work of Catovic Hughes Design combines formal and tectonic exploration with an ongoing study of vernacular traditions. Catovic Hughes has been recognized with 4 state AIA Design Awards, two Gulf States Region AIA Design Awards and the ACSA Faculty Design Award. Their work has been published in Architecture Record, Metropolitan Home, and Dwell magazine.
In the academic realm Professor Hughes is the director of the Tectonic Landscapes Initiative. This work combines community outreach and material exploration in a series of projects that focus on small, unremarkable, and often forgotten places adjacent to the lives of underserved people. Located in the boundary between architecture and landscape these projects seek to create experiential delight out of small-scale design opportunities. Through the adaptive re-use and recycling of leftover urban space the projects augment and enhance existing building infrastructures with new, primarily outdoor, spaces that provide pragmatic functions, promote play, and exhibit a social and environmental conscience. The Joy House design-build project exemplifies Prof. Hughes’ ongoing efforts to engage students in a complex educational experience that integrates the art and craft of making Architecture with issues of civic, ethical and social responsibility. The project involved the design and construction of a new courtyard, play areas, and social spaces at a shelter for victims of domestic violence in downtown Denver. Other projects involve outdoor classrooms, modular construction, and sustainable residential design. |
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Simon Fraser
Senior Partner
Hopkins Architects
Dubai, UAE
Simon graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture with a Masters degree in 1990 and joined Hopkins Architects that year. As a student he received the Sir Harry Barnes prize from the Glasgow School of Art and he spent his first year out working as a carpenter. Since then he has worked in architects' offices in Glasgow, Hong Kong and Tokyo and is now based in London and Dubai. He is currently Managing Director of Hopkins Dubai and Senior Partner at the head office of Hopkins Architects in London.
In 1992 he won a Leverhulme Fellowship to study & travel in Japan for a year at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. Afterwards, he worked for the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa on the competition winning Kuala Lumpur Airport before returning to Hopkins Architects in 1994.
At Hopkins, his projects have included The New Parliamentary Building and The new Headquarters for The Wellcome Trust in London. In 1999 he completed a new University Campus for Nottingham University (nine buildings) which he extended with the National College for School Leadership and also a new Business School and Students’ Union Building.
His international projects include a new HQ building in Athens (the first international project for the office), a 250,000 m2 mixed use office tower in Tokyo and a series of large mixed use projects in Dubai totalling 1.6 million m2.
In 2004, he established the Middle East regional office in Dubai for Hopkins and since then has completed the Gate Village development at the Dubai International Finance Centre (ten buildings) and also a number of large scale commercial and residential projects which are under construction.
He was a finalist for The Young Architect of the Year in 2000 and from 2001-04 he was a Client Enabler for the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment (CABE). He has lectured widely at Universities and institutions throughout the world
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Thomas Schielke
Architect
arclighting
Germany
Thomas Schielke studied architecture at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. He has been in charge of the didactic and communication division at the lighting manufacturer ERCO since 2001 where he designed an extensive online guide for architectural lighting, leads lighting workshops and publishes internationally articles on lighting design and technology. He is author of the book "Light Perspectives - between culture and technology". Additionally, he lectures internationally at different universities and conducts research in architectural lighting. |
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