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Armani Architects is young and talented award winning collective of architects and designers network based in Tehran, Iran and currently led by Amir Armani Asl and Kiana Ghader.

Armani Architects was established with the aim of enhancing architecture and human experience by incorporating Iran’s authentic culture into our designs to respond to today’s community challenges. Established in 2018.  this office has produced award-winning architectural and interior design projects across Iran and other countries.

As a faculty in the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi for the past 5 years, I intent in the visionary discourse which reflects towards a social discourse of exploring architecture to a different paradigm. Architecture should listen to the spirit of places, and the needs of not just the human spirit but other living spirits. To look into architecture as healing giving intent, to living spirits – to places, to people, and to the environment.

Architectural Education to be meaningful for society

Large scale Urban Design & Educational Campuses.

Adriano Pimenta is an architect with over 26 years of practice in the elaboration and coordination of projects and, since 1997, connected to the development of work related to urban planning and master-plan, transportation systems, housing and public spaces. The work Adriano has done between 1992 and 2006, in the office of the Pritzker Architect Souto de Moura, allowed Adriano to meet, develop and coordinate a vast and broad variety of projects such as the development and re-qualification of urban spaces, between 1999 and 2006 the coordination of the work in the Oporto Metro project and since 2013 until 2017 as a Consultant in Riyadh Metro.

Since 2007, he has settled in his own office where the projects undertaken comprehend and include transportation systems, plans and urban waterfronts requalification’s, refurbishment and preservation of the heritage, development of housing typologies, manufacturing typologiesand school buildings.

In 2013, he has begun working as an Architect and Urban Designer consultant in the Riyadh Metro in the consortium RMTC formed by Egis,Parsons and Systra.

The Metro Riyadh develops in 170km and consists of 6 lines, tunnel, elevated and at grade tracks with 48 cut cover stations, 16 at grade stations, 25 elevated stations and 4 iconic stations. The work involves two lines, Line 1 with 38,0 km and Line 2 with 25.3 km.

Since September 2014 until 2017, Adriano has worked as Senior Architect Design in PCM Contract for Riyadh Metro Line 3 (41.6 km, 22 Stations) awarded to consortium Salini-Impregilo-Ansaldo STS-Bombardier (ANM)

Initiating his career in 1992, in the office of the Architect Souto de Moura, early his work passed through coordination, such as the upgrading of the urban centre of Maia city, the development and coordination of Chiado Mall in Lisbon and the coordination of the Metro do Porto project, which includes the projects of the underground stations, the urban insertion of surface metro stations system and the refurbishment of urban spaces related to the work.

As an architect I have been the curator of the largest curated architecture library of the world. Now as a creative director I’m looking for the latest trends and out of the box thinkers in design and construction.

Believing in the significant role building professionals play in shaping the character, form, and quality of places and spaces for humanity, Ar. Geomilie S. Tumamao-Guittap is a passionate architecture-planning professional and development researcher. She finished B.S. Architecture from the University of Santo Tomas with honours in 2003 and served as a designer-coordinator for various commercial developments in United Arab Emirates at the height of the construction boom of early 2000. After she returned to the Philippines to earn her graduate studies in 2010, she joined the University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP SURP) as a University Researcher in 2011 and graduated Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning specializing in Estate Planning and Development with honours in 2015. She currently heads the Capacity Building Subcommittee of the United Architects of the Philippines – Emergency Architects (UAP-EA) and she is actively involved in the International Network for Traditional Buildings, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) – Philippine Chapter. She is engaged in various researches, outreach programs, and trainings on disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) and sustainable development.

Interior designer and 3d artist

He has a fascination for sustainable processes and from practice [NOA] he aims to generate innovative tailor-made urban and architectural solutions.

ACADEMIC PROFILE

He is Adjunct Professor (Int) in Architectural Studio at the FADU, UBA (University of Buenos Aires) where he has been teaching since 1998. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of: Talca [Chile]; Johannesburg [South Africa] and Javeriana of Bogota [Colombia]; and Lecturer at the Tadeo University of Cartagena [Colombia]. He also chaired the 2010 DasBaker Award Jury in South Africa.

In 2018 the University of Buenos Aires distinguishes him with two Academic Merit Mentions

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

In 2007 he founded Najmias Oficina de Arquitectura [NOA], a practice with a fascination for sustainable processes and the generation of innovative solutions from architecture and the impact it has on the daily life of its users. The research-based approach drives spatial innovation in the fields of architecture, interior design and furniture as well as in the landscape, with a strong focus on the integration and impacts of the built on the phisical setting and the environment

He won his first international prize in 2002, the Silver Medal in the International Design Competition Beyond East and West [Korea]. In 2011 he was awarded the International Highly-Commended Americas Property Awards Single Residence.

From NOA, or associated with other offices, he also obtains the following national awards: 1st. and 3rd. Urban Project Award at FADU Biennial [2019]; Distinguished Work BIA-AR [2018]; 1st. Prize National Competition for the Colegiales Railwaystation Masterplan [2017]; 2nd Prize National Competition for City Park National [2017]; 3rd Arq Award [2011] and Bicentennial Award Finalist [2010] among others.