Porota

Senior Designer at BuildX Studio (Nairobi) and part-time lecturer at the Kenyatta University.

Jaime has worked as leading architect and project managers in educational and healthcare sectors in Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia; with emphasis on participatory design approaches and sustainability. He has also lectured at the NSPA Architecture Department and at the University of Rwanda.

Architectural Education to be meaningful for society

Large scale Urban Design & Educational Campuses.

High end creativity is what I simply bake!  

What architects are trying to achieve usually is to create a focal point in their designs. And this is a way to focus on particular components of the architectural design. It's just making simple things seems more exquisite and much more alive.  
My Architecture Focus is to create weird emblematic emotional spaces of value. In fact, it is a passion and desire to strive for the best, amid the challenges and pressures that make you an architect worth it. 

However, to be a real architect is not about to be only uniquely different but to be much more awaken for enlightenment arts. 
In the enlightened state of art, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before. So what is left when illusion of creativity ends?

Architecture, Landscape and interior design

Housing buildings, modernism in architecture, funcionality vs. aesthetics in architecture, technical details, tradition in nowdays

Architectural Design & Interior Design

Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, Photography

Professional Qualifications & Year

Hon. FAIA 2009

FIA (SL) 2010

FRIBA 2016

FRAIA 2017

Int'l Assoc RAIC 2009

IIID 2001

PG Dip Acomas 1986 

Actually, my architectural focus is on ideas and concepts laying behind the architectural product in any cultural society. I always eager to study the history of architecture from that point of view, other than studying its architectural product from its visual or formal values. I like to know and distinguish the cultural value that moves its architect to choose that way of designing and exclude others. 

That is why, I like to teach history and theories of architecture to make my students learn from others how to be innovative and creative, and be able to distinguish between human values and physical values.