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Architectural design

 

J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten mbB Founder Professional settings

Our design approach has followed a similar guideline whether we design a residence, a commercial space or an interior facility. The climatic parameters have always been the starting point. Our philosophy, especially in residential design (primarily in hot and humid Indian conditions), has increasingly been governed by improving the indoor comfort condition through natural means.

Architect, creating focused on the intuitive flow of the space and the fit with the deeper client’s needs.

My Focus is both the process and product of planning, designing, and constructing form, space, and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations.

DesignHistory and TheoryTeaching

Climate and environmental sensitive architectural design. Creating environments that enhance the human experience

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Philip Horton is a Clinical Associate Professor and a Senior Global Futures Scientist, and he is currently acting as the Assistant Director for Strategic Initiatives for The Design School. In Academic Year 2020/21 Horton served as the Interim Director for The Design School. Horton is currently participating in a transdisciplinary research initiative with the Global Futures Laboratory (GFL), the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), Studio MA, and other units within ASU. He is currently co-directing the launch of the interdisciplinary Center of Building Innovation (cobi) at ASU, as well as the emergent "Wakanda ASU" initiative.Horton previously acted as faculty advisor to Team ASUNM (Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico) on the SHADE house (Solar Homes Adapting for Desert Equilibrium) for the U.S. Department of Energy's 2013 Solar Decathlon, and as the studio professor for the Waimea Nui Community Development Initiative with the Native Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association. He received a Master's in Architecture (M.Arch) with commencement honors from the Arizona State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design (now the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts), and is currently completing the Stanford LEAD Executive Education program through the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Architecture & Interior Design 

Architecture theories 

Urban Design for public spaces 

Christian Gasparini teaches and researches at Politecnico of Milan, dedicating his activity to architectural urban and landscape plans of sea ports and railway stations, cultural centers, media libraries and libraries, university and temporary residences in Italy and Europe. Expert in bioclimatic planning at the University of Bologna, in 2000 he worked in Chile, to the international workshop and masterplan of Valparaiso city centre, that followed the election of the city to the status of humanity heritage by Unesco. Many are the participations in international meetings and conferences. In 2018 he founded a new architecture and landscape book series named Terzo Luogo and published by Licosia. In the same year he published "Smart Cities vs Smart Territories", a sort of debate with Elisabetta Bello, Maria Teresa Gabardi and Nunziante Mastrolia on the idea of smart cities. In 2019 he published "il progetto come connessione - architettura città paesaggio". The book is a research on the architectural fundamentals, in which the figure of the link/connection is the plan principle of architecture, city and landscape. In 2001 he found NATOFFICE, an architectural and urban planning practice, based in Reggio Emilia and Milan. NAT OFFICE, combining theoretical approach with applied research, turns its attention to the relationship between architecture, city and landscape and investigates modular structures and exhibit design in order to experiment typologies, morphologies and scales, for a new identity between place and people. Private and public architecture realizations are intertwined with the research on urban strategies to generate flexible interfaces and on modular structures that can be assembled and disassembled in different configurations. NAT OFFICE wins several awards in international and national competitions, such as Masterplan for Sport Citadel in Testaccio Rome or New Lorenteggio Library in Milan.

Ali Lavasani founded Alagroup in 2015. Ali Lavasani defined architecture as the art and science for improving life, cities and buildings. He tries to improve the lives of contemporary human beings by analyzing issues such as culture, climate, social and economic conditions. He also sees architecture as art for the sense of vitality in human beings and paints alongside architecture. In 2019, the project “House No. 3” became a finalist in the architectural competition in Spain and also became a finalist in the annual competition of the Journal of Architectural Art in Iran. In 2020, he won second place in the field of urban furniture design in Spain. In the same year, he became a finalist in the Indian public school design competition and received special praise from judges. He has a motto for his designs “Live Simply Chic”