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Marcelo Conrado Alejandro Waisman
Architect
Summary
More than 25 years of experience in Design and Construction, 15 as Manager of Retail Projects, Multifamily Homes, Hospitality and Office Buildings AAA. With more than 1,000,000 m2 projected from the beginning to the completion and start-up of the buildings. 10 years leading multidisciplinary teams, providing solutions and specific answers to the needs of the company's different internal clients. Analyzing new business opportunities in Real Estate, searching for opportunities and maximum optimization of profitability of newly acquired properties and permanent re- evaluation of the existing portfolio based on changes or adjustments to the new regulations. Application of Green Building criteria adapting buildings and projects, for its subsequent certification under Leed Standards.
Experience
Architecture Manager
IRSA COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

Associate Professor
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Education
Universidad Austral
• Seminar of Specialization in Real Estate
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• Postgraduate in Architecture and Urban Design
Pratt Institute, NYC
• Seminar and Concurse of Urban Design "The Future of Coney Island", winner of the first prize
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Architect degree
Awards
HONORABLE MENTION "Artificial Paradise" Urban Studies and Architecture Studies USA/ITALY
FIRST PRIZE Project expansion of the Cemetery of Avellaneda
HONORABLE MENTION "The construction of Memory" Memorial for the Victims of the AMIA bombing
FIRST PRIZE "Urban Project for Coney Island" Pratt Institute, NYC

Graduated at Department of Architecture at FCE Slovak University of Technology and also at Theatre Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In his wrks he examines the current state of cultural infrastructure and its possible transformation into a sustainable space for cultural and community activities. He creates a many interior design especially for libraries, and he is focused on set design for theatre. 

Less is more, My firm is located in Querétaro, an important city in México.

Philosophy of architecture and visualization.

Vice President, AECOM Canada Architects Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Samuel Óghale Oboh (Sam) is a highly accomplished architect, resourceful leader and design management specialist committed to innovation, stewardship and achieving excellence for the greater public good. He is the 2015 President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – the first Canadian of African descent to lead the 110-year-old professional organization.

Dario Donato is Founder and Design Principal of Spatialconnection(s), responsible for the management, research and creative direction of the firm both in Italy and in international markets.

Since 2009 he has been worked both in practice and academia, from design as research to research as practice.

Before founding Spatialconnection(s) he has worked in several innovative and award-winning  international offices in Italy, China, and The Netherlands. He collaborated as Design Architect on a diverse range of high profile projects such as Gousen Securities Tower in Shenzhen with studio Fuksas, Wisdom Valley with Nbbj in Nanjing and University Church in Liepzig for Erick van Egeraat, plus some prize winning competitions.

Dario’s work is the result of the mediate world “From Complexity to Simplicity” that support the future implementation of an active conversation on the cultural agencies of current technologies and the ways they impact the architectural discipline for producing unconventional engineered architecture. Dario has started to pursue this line of research at IN/ARCH (National Italian Institute of Architecture) in Rome for the Master Emerging Technologies where he was the instructor of Scripting and Computational Geometry unit.

Since 2010 he taught and collaborated with academic and professional institutions in Europe and the Middle East including IUAV, IN/ARCH, Higher College of Technology...

Nowadays Dario is co-Programme Director and tutor at IAAC GSS Oman, investigating the post digital paradigm and its application in a context of multicultural society.

Dario received his master degree in Architectural Engineering at University of Pisa (Italy) and lately he received multiple awards as Young Talent of Architecture in Italy with two projects located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

My architecture focuses on the adaptation of each project in its own context with its own particular story. Also, my projects focus on humanity and climate change since architecture is for everyone, not just for privilege people. Therefore, the role of an architect is not only to build for rich and capable people, yet to everyone using specific architectural systems that will adapt to a specific situation. 

Elegance in design is crucial. However, there are many different ingredients assembeled all together in order to result with a good architectural project, and the social aspect is a major part of any project as well as sustainiblity and most importantly, the respect of nature and history. 

In our firm Zein Engineering we focus on several issues in the world such as scarcity of ressources, refugee crisis, displacement, immigration, poverty...etc.Well, Architecture could be the driving force to solve numerous problems in the world.  Also, Zein Eng. is recently commissioning several mega projects in Lebanon and the Gulf countries working with high-end projects and providing the best architecture possible for the client, for the context, and for society.

On my career and so far , I always focused on the relation between design and reality. How to create something from nothing and in the same time based on strong and clear principles. functionality, structure, integration and materiality...

All those principles help us as people to build this special relation with spaces and places.

And provide us as architects with an infinite ways to create our masterpieces.