Ajman University Department of Architectural Engineering List of internationally renowned guest architects and designers: (Stand Dec. 2015) Visitors Affiliation Address/ Contacts Date visited AUST Charles Jencks Hans Hollein Axel Schultes Jon Lang Mike Jenks Rem Koolhaas (OMA) An American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. In 1985 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize. A German architect. His bestknown building is the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, the Founder Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Founder of City Form: the Sustainable Urban form Consortium. A Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in http://www.charlesjencks.com/ jencks@charlesjencks.com 19-3- 2007 http://www.hollein.com/ 24-3- 2008 http://www.schultesfrankarchitekten.de/ schultes@schultesfrankarchitekten.de 24-3- 2008 jon.lang@unsw.edu.au 14-11- 2006 mjenks@brookes.ac.uk 24-3- 2008 http://oma.eu/ 5-2- 2008 & 24-3- 2008 / s
Ricardo Bofill Hitoshi Abe Michael Sorkin Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University. In 2000, he won the Pritzker Prize. A Spanish (Catalan) architect, who leads the international architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Chair, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA. Director, Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA. Terasaki Chair for contemporary Japanese study, UCLA. Principal at Atelier Hitoshi Abe, based in Sendai, Japan An American architectural critic and author of several hundred articles in a wide range of both professional and general publications. He is also Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the Principal of Michael Sorkin http://www.ricardobofill.com/ rbofill@bofill.com http://www.a-slash.jp/ h.abe@a-slash.jp http://www.sorkinstudio.com/ mdsorkin@gmail.com 6-4- April 8-4-
Preston Scott Cohen Ben van Berkel (UNStudio) Will Alsop Manfredi & Luca Nicoletti Nezar Al Sayyad Studio in New York City. Cohen is the Chair and Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and is the principal designer at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. A Dutch architect, who designed the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. He was Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Princeton University and Harvard University. Prof. Will Alsop OBE RA is a prominent architect and artist who established ALL Design in 2011. He has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize for Peckham Library, London and the first RIBA World Award for The Sharp Centre for Design (OCAD), Toronto. Manfredi Nicoletti is an Italian architect and considered a pioneer in Bioclimatic urban and architectural design. Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History at the http://www.pscohen.com/ scohen@gsd.harvard.edu http://www.unstudio.com/ b.vanberkel@unstudio.com http://www.all-worldwide.com/ w.alsop@all-worldwide.com April 21-4- 6-10- & 30 Jan. 2 Feb. 2012 studio.nicoletti@inwind.it 31 March 2010 http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/facultystaff/nezar-alsayyad nezar@berkeley.edu 31 March 2010 and and
Rasem Badran Kim Herforth Nielsen (3XN) Donald Bates (LAB Architecture Studio) Daniel Libeskind College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. He is the chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE); and the editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). A Jordanian architect from a Palestinian descent whose works are based on a methodological approach in defining Architecture as a continuous dialogue between contemporary needs and historical inherited cultural values. A Danish architect, co-founder and principal of 3XN. A registered architect in Australia and the UK, and is the Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 and is its principal design http://rasembadran.com/ rasem.badran@gmail.com http://www.3xn.dk/#/ khn@3xn.dk http://www.labarchitecture.com/ dbates@labarchitecture.com http://libeskind.com/ publicrelations@daniel-libeskind.com 26-3- 2008, 20-5-, 13-16 June 2011, 24-27 March 2013, 23 27 April 2015, 15-12- 22-4- 2010 22-3- 2011 s and s
Mario Botta Rifat Chadirji Eric Owen Moss Roman Delugan & Elke Delugan- Meissl architect. A Swiss architect based in Lugano. Rifat Chadirji is an architect and author. He is founder of the architectural firm Iraq Consult and was its president from 1952 to 1978. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University and MIT. An American architect, founder of Eric Owen Moss Architects. Moss has held teaching positions at major universities around the world including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Moss has also been a longtime professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and has served as its director since 2003. Founders of Vienna based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. http://www.botta.ch/ 22-3- mba@botta.ch 2011 rchadirji@hotmail.com 21-3- 2011 http://ericowenmoss.com/ Moss@ericowenmoss.com http://www.dmaa.at/home.html edelugan@dmaa.at rdelugan@deluganmeissl.at http://www.archdaily.com/tag/deluganmeissl-associated-architects 14-17 Nov. 2011 18-23 Feb. 2012 Tom Wiscombe Founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, an internationally recognized design practice in California. In addition to teaching at PennDesign, Wiscombe is a senior faculty http://www.tomwiscombe.com/ tom@tomwiscombe.com 21 25 June 2012
Satoshi Okada Emilio Ambasz Victor Legorreta Angela Brady member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARC). Okada established Satoshi Okada architects in Tokyo, 1995. He is also Associate Professor of Architectural Design & Theory at the Graduate School of Architecture, Chiba University, Japan. Since 2002, he has lectured at several academies and architect societies in Europe, USA, and Russia. Emilio Ambasz is an Argentine architect and award-winning industrial designer. He taught at Princeton University's School of Architecture, was a visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany, and has lectured at many important American universities. Victor Legorreta is a Partner, Managing and Design Director at Legorreta + Legorreta. He has lectured at universities and congresses in the United States, Latin America and recently in Europe and the Middle East. Angela Brady is an Irish born architect. In 2011 she was http://www.okada-archi.com/ satoshi@okada-archi.com http://ambasz.com/ http://emilioambaszandassociates.com/ eambaszp@ambasz.com http://legorretalegorreta.com/en/ victor@lmasl.com.mx http://www.bradymallalieu.com/profile.html angela@bradymallalieu.com 17-23 Oct. 2012 4-10 Feb. 2013 11-3- 2013 11-3- 2013
Ma Yansong (MAD architects) Francine Houben (Mecanoo architecten) Ken Yeang elected president of the UK's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for a two-year term. She is a past chairperson of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) London Forum. Beijing-born architect Ma Yansong is recognized as an important voice in the new generation of architects. He is the first Chinese architect to win an overseas landmarkbuilding project. As the founder and principal of MAD Architects, Ma leads design across various scales. Francine Houben is a Dutch architect. She graduated from the Delft University of Technology. She is the founding partner and creative director of Mecanoo architecten, based in Delft, The Netherlands. Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect, ecologist and author known for his signature ecoarchitecture and ecomasterplans. Yeang is an early pioneer of ecologybased green design and masterplanning, carrying out design and research in this field since 1971. He was named by the Guardian as "one of the 50 people who http://www.i-mad.com/ Ma@i-mad.com http://www.mecanoo.nl/ francine.houben@mecanoo.nl http://www.hamzahyeang.com/ kynnet@kyeang.com 7-10 Oct. 2013 17-20 Feb. 2014 28 Feb. 1 March 2016
could save the planet".