Gala Dinner & AIA International Design Awards - FREE to join online!
Bab al Shams
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT!
When: Friday 12 November 2021 @ 10:30 (Eastern US Time)/ @ 19:30 (Dubai time)
Where: Bab al Shams, Al Qudra Road, Opposite Endurance City - Dubai - UAE
Speakers
Dan Hart, FAIA, 2022 President-Elect, AIA
Victor Legorreta, Partner, Managing and Design Director at LEGORRETA®, 2021 AIA Intl Design Awards juror
Event Description
Celebrate the International Region and AIA Middle East with a night you are sure to remember at the Bab al Shams or "Gateway to the Sun", a luxury desert Arabian resort with an enchanting desert backdrop. We will present our annual Design Awards and celebrate with dinner and drinks nestled amid the dunes of the Arabian desert.
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Al Janah Pavilion – Jason Carlow (American University of Sharjah)
Shenzhen College of International Education – Atelier Li Xiaodong
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Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub – John Hong (Project : Architecture)
Lilith Games Huaxin Campus - M Moser Associates
Urban Design Awards
Nanhu New Country Village Master Plan Phase 1 - SOM
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Landscape of Traces - XRANGE Architects
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Speaker Bios
Dan Hart, 2022 President-Elect, AIA
Daniel S. Hart, FAIA PE, will be the 98th President of the American Institute of Architects beginning December 2021 for one year, succeeding 2021 President Peter Exley, FAIA, of Chicago.
Hart, from Austin, is the Executive Vice president of Architecture, a Principal, and serves on the board of Parkhill, a 400-person A/E firm, with offices in Texas and New Mexico.
Hart was an adjunct instructor of architectural engineering at Texas Tech University where he is a distinguished alumnus of the College of Architecture and where he served as the founding president of the Design Leadership Alliance.
He was president of the Texas Society of Architects in 2011. Hart served as the 2016 moderator of the AIA Strategic Council and has chaired the AIA Knowledge Committee, the AIA Public Outreach Committee, and is Co-Chair of the AIA COVID Business Practices Task Force.
Hart’s election comes at a critical time for the architecture profession, whose members are charged with ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing during a pandemic, amid calls for equity and racial justice, and at the vanguard of climate action.
Victor Legorreta, Partner, Managing and Design Director at LEGORRETA®, 2021 AIA Intl Design Awards juror
Studied Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City from 1986 to 1990. After practicing in firms like Leason Pomeroy & Associates in Irvine, USA; Martorell, Bohigas y Mackay in Barcelona and Fumihiko Maki in Japan, he joined Legorreta Arquitectos in 1991.
Two years later he became a partner of Legorreta Arquitectos. And in 2001 he was a partner, general manager and design director of Legorreta + Legorreta (currently LEGORRETA®). He has lectured at Universities and Congresses both in the US and throughout Latin America and recently the Middle East. He has also been a member of various juries, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards.
In 2007, Victor was distinguished as an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 2011 he was named a Full Member of the National Academy of Architecture, Valle de México Chapter and in 2012 he became President of the Interclub in Mexico of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA). In 2019 he was Honoured as Emerit Academic from Mexico’s National Architecture Academy.
He was born in Mexico City on December 10, 1966.
