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Dear PAM Member, Greetings from Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM All images copyright OMA Taipei Performing Arts Center. Taiwan David Gianotten Michael Kokora Dear PAM Member, Greetings from Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM). We are pleased to inform you that there will be an upcoming PAM Public Lecture on Wednesday, 17 December 2014. Speaker: David Gianotten and Michael Kokora | Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Lecture Title: Building Urban Culture Time: Reception and Registration starts 7.15pm. Lecture starts on time at 8.00pm. Venue: White Box, Map@Publika, Level G2-01, Block A5, Solaris Dutamas, No. 1, Jalan Dutamas 1, 50480 Kuala Lumpur. OMA OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA’s buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by ten partners - Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long and Michael Kokora - and sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Doha. OMA’s recently completed projects include the G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (2014) Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2013); De Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands (2013); the headquarters for China Central Television(2012); New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild bank in London ; Milstein Hall, an extension to the Architecture, Art, and Planning school at Cornell University; Maggie’s Centre, a cancer care centre in Glasgow (all 2011). The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the Praemium Imperiale (Japan) in 2003, the RIBA Gold Medal (UK) in 2004, the Mies van der Rohe - European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2005), the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale, and most recently, the prestigious RIBA Charles Jencks Award in 2012 and the Johannes Vermeer Prijs in 2013. DAVID GIANOTTEN David Gianotten joined OMA in 2008, launched OMA’s Hong Kong office in 2009, and became partner at OMA in 2010. In Dec 2014, it was announced that David will be returning to Rotterdam to assume his new role of Managing Partner-Architect of OMA. Projects under his design and supervision include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre in Taiwan, the Hanwha Galleria in Busan Korea, the Taiyuan Industrial Heritage masterplan in China, and the Prince Plaza Building in Shenzhen China. David Gianotten was responsible for the recently delivered Shenzhen Stock Exchange headquarters, the end stages of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing and OMA’s conceptual masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. David Gianotten studied Architecture and Construction Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. MICHAEL KOKORA Michael Kokora joined OMA in 2007 and is based in Hong Kong. In 2009, he established OMA/AMO Asia together with OMA partner David Gianotten. Within the Asia Pacific region, he is responsible for leading a large portion of OMA/AMO’s portfolio and is developing projects in China, South East Asia, and Australia. He oversaw the design and construction of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2007 to the building’s completion in 2013. Other projects have included: the conceptual masterplan for Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, a residential project on the peak in Hong Kong, a cultural resort in Indonesia, a broadcasting facility in Indonesia, and a masterplan to regenerate areas in Jakarta. Kokora is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches in the Master of Architecture program. Prior to joining OMA, he worked for 10 years on a wide range of projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University where he received the Eero Saarinen Memorial Scholarship for design. Note for PAM members: Members requiring CPD points are reminded to register before the event with PAM / Ms. Dini Ramli (tel:+603 2693 4182 / email : [email protected]). Website: http://www.pam.org.my Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PAM.DLS A sign-in at the event is required. This event, and the PAM Public Lectures programme, is hosted by the PAM CPD DLS Committee 2014/15 chaired by Dato’ Maurice Wee, Ar. Alvin Lim and Ang Chee Cheong..
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