AIA Middle East - Architecture Without Buildings, Edging Towards Zero
When: Saturday 26 June 2021 @ 11:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 18:00 (Jordan and KSA time)/ 19:00 (UAE time)
Speaker: Akram Abu Hamdan
Description
This talk will look at a transformational pattern in the development of science, art and architecture that has over the last 120 years achieved substantial reductions in mass and material components, in apparent and effective attempts at abstracting matter in favor of weightlessness and space.
The speaker aims at evoking a debate about the destiny of architecture and to predict, albeit controversially, a future of architecture without buildings.
The speaker will also suggest that this momentum is being driven by a collective subconscious ascetic-like quest, by the human race, to reach a higher state of being.
Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3puIuFq
Zoom Webinar ID: 843 4033 9832
Passcode: aiame
Speaker Bio
Akram Abu Hamdan AA Dipl. RIBA - Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
A graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Abu Hamdan has had a diverse career in the built environment. His early days of practice were in building system research at the Royal Scientific Society and as design tutor at the University of Jordan from 1979 to 1987. In both private practice and public service from 1983 to 2010 Abu Hamdan led teams of architects and engineers on a number of award-winning projects, including the Queen Alia International Airport and the Amman Living Wall in collaboration with Foster and Partners, also the Jordan Pavilion to EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany.
From 2001 to 2010 Abu Hamdan led Jordan’s drive in urban regeneration and chaired the Urban Workshop, a non-profit research and planning centre. His later projects included mixed-use developments in Jordan, Morocco, Slovenia, Turkey and Malaysia.
He has also served on a number of high-level committees including the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
