Jury

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

An Architect is a social sciencetist and carries a great responsibility to the humanbeings and nature, being an architect i believe that designing in the present keeping the past in mind and foreseeing the future should be the main aim of any design project, Sustainability is the need of the day.

Gaetano De Francesco is the founder of DFR Architecture, a based in Rome design practice that investigates the contemporary condition of inhabited territory searching strategies and space solutions to make it livable, loveble, inclusive and resilient.

He is Phd in Architecture - Theories and Project at Department of Architecture and Project - Sapienza University of Rome, where make activities of research and teaching assistance and he is Authorized Rhinoceros Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Quasar Design University in Rome.

Interior design 

My special architectural focus would be on the residential projects, I can say that I run an Architectural Consultancy "Riaz Associates" in Pakistan for 30 years (1984 -2014), in the city of Lahore, one of the most populated city of the country and the capital of the biggest province 'Punjab'.

  My interest was on individual housing and the housing schemes projects. My focus was on to design custom homes for the particular clients according to their family requirements, budget with the environment of the location. My primary interest was on a practical, well lighted and a space full of comfort. I attended many juries in different universities in Pakistan.

  With my experience and interest in reading magazines, I started publishing an architectural and art magazine (quarterly) "Designers Style" in 2011 as publisher and editor in chief and it is running till today. It is one of the top 3 publications in the country and I am honoured that it has articles from around the world and is sent to many places outside the country. Because of my dual nationality I travelled a lot to many places especially Canada and I moved to Toronto in 2014. I am managing my magazine team from here and to learn more I got admission in Ryerson University, Chang School of Continuing Education in the subject of publishing in 2017. You can visit online at facebook.com/designerstyle.magazine

   I moved to Calgary now in Nov.2019, to explore life and style of west of Canada and US.

I believe architecture organizes the socio-economic activities of all human beings irrespective of their gender, class, race and income levels. Well-designed built environment provides healthy, safe and inclusive spaces to its users.

I,m Chairperson of the Culture and Heritgae Commission of The Africa Union of Architect

Sustainable Design, Islamic Architecture, Commercial Buidlings, Adminstration Buidlings, High towers, Hotels, Culture projects, Educational Buildings, Border posts, Sport Facilities

Urban Designer