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Ajman University Department of Architectural Engineering Ajman University Department of Architectural Engineering List of internationally renowned guest architects and designers: (Stand July 2017) Visitors Affiliation Website Date visited Lecture/ AU Workshop Charles Jencks An American architecture theorist and critic, landscape http://www.charlesjencks.com/ 19-3-2007 Lecture architect and designer. Hans Hollein ✝ Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and http://www.hollein.com/ 24-3-2008 Lecture key figure of postmodern architecture. In 1985 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Axel Schultes A German architect. His best-known building is the http://www.schultesfrankarchitekten.de/ 24-3-2008 Lecture Federal Chancellery in Berlin. Jon Lang Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of 14-11-2006 Lecture New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Mike Jenks Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, the 24-3-2008 Lecture Founder Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Founder of City Form: the Sustainable Urban form Consortium. Rem Koolhaas A Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and http://oma.eu/ 5-2-2008 & Lectures (OMA) Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, 24-3-2008 Harvard University. In 2000, he won the Pritzker Prize. Ricardo Bofill A Spanish (Catalan) architect, who leads the international http://www.ricardobofill.com/ 6-4-2009 Lecture architectural and urban design practice Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Hitoshi Abe Chair, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, http://www.a-slash.jp/ April 2009 Lecture UCLA. Director, Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA. Terasaki Chair for contemporary Japanese study, UCLA. Principal at Atelier Hitoshi Abe, based in Sendai, Japan Michael Sorkin An American architectural critic and author of several http://www.sorkinstudio.com/ 8-4-2009 Lecture hundred articles in a wide range of both professional and general publications. He is also Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City. Preston Scott Cohen is the Chair and Gerald M. McCue Professor of http://www.pscohen.com/ April 2009 Lecture Cohen Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and is the principal designer at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA, USA. Ben van Berkel A Dutch architect, who designed the Erasmus Bridge in http://www.unstudio.com/ 21-4-2009 Lecture (UNStudio) Rotterdam, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. He was Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Princeton University and Harvard University. Will Alsop Prof. Will Alsop OBE RA is a prominent architect and http://www.all-worldwide.com/ 6-10-2009 & Lecture and artist who established ALL Design in 2011. He has been 30 Jan. – 2 Workshop awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize for Peckham Library, Feb. 2012 London and the first RIBA World Award for The Sharp Centre for Design (OCAD), Toronto. Manfredi & Manfredi Nicoletti is an Italian architect and considered a 31 March Lecture and Luca Nicoletti pioneer in Bioclimatic urban and architectural design. 2010 Workshop Nezar Al Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty- 31 March Lecture Sayyad Urban History at the College of Environmental Design, staff/nezar-alsayyad 2010 University of California, Berkeley. He is the chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE); and the editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). Rasem Badran A Jordanian architect from a Palestinian descent whose http://rasembadran.com/ 26-3-2008, 20- Lectures and works are based on a methodological approach in 5-2009, 13-16 Workshops defining Architecture as a continuous dialogue between June 2011, 24- contemporary needs and historical inherited cultural 27 March values. 2013, 23 – 27 April 2015, Kim Herforth A Danish architect, co-founder and principal of 3XN. http://www.3xn.dk/#/ 15-12-2009 Lecture Nielsen (3XN) Donald Bates A registered architect in Australia and the UK, and is the http://www.labarchitecture.com/ 22-4-2010 Lecture (LAB Director of LAB Architecture Studio. Chair of Architecture Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne, Studio) Australia. Daniel a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set http://libeskind.com/ 22-3-2011 Lecture Libeskind designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 and is its principal design architect. Mario Botta A Swiss architect based in Lugano. http://www.botta.ch/ 22-3-2011 Lecture Rifat Chadirji Rifat Chadirji is an architect and author. He is founder of 21-3-2011 Lecture the architectural firm Iraq Consult and was its president from 1952 to 1978. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University and MIT. Eric Owen An American architect, founder of Eric Owen Moss http://ericowenmoss.com/ 14-17 Nov. Workshop Moss Architects. Moss has held teaching positions at major 2011 universities around the world including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Moss has also been a longtime professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and has served as its director since 2003. Roman Delugan Founders of Vienna based Delugan Meissl Associated http://www.dmaa.at/home.html 18-23 Feb. Workshop & Elke Architects. 2012 Delugan-Meissl Tom Wiscombe Founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, http://www.tomwiscombe.com/ 21 – 25 June Workshop an internationally recognized design practice in 2012 California. In addition to teaching at PennDesign, Wiscombe is a senior faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Satoshi Okada Okada established Satoshi Okada architects in Tokyo, http://www.okada-archi.com/ 17-23 Oct. Workshop 1995. He is also Associate Professor of Architectural 2012 Design & Theory at the Graduate School of Architecture, Chiba University, Japan. Since 2002, he has lectured at several academies and architect societies in Europe, USA, and Russia. Emilio Ambasz Emilio Ambasz is an Argentine architect and award- http://ambasz.com/ 4-10 Feb. 2013 Workshop winning industrial designer. He taught at Princeton http://emilioambaszandassociates.com/ University's School of Architecture, was a visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany, and has lectured at many important American universities. Victor Victor Legorreta is a Partner, Managing and Design http://legorretalegorreta.com/en/ 11-3-2013 Lecture Legorreta Director at Legorreta + Legorreta. He has lectured at universities and congresses in the United States, Latin America and recently in Europe and the Middle East. Angela Brady Angela Brady is an Irish born architect. In 2011 she was http://www.bradymallalieu.com/profile.html 11-3-2013 Lecture elected president of the UK's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for a two-year term. She is a past chairperson of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) London Forum. Ma Yansong Beijing-born architect Ma Yansong is recognized as an http://www.i-mad.com/ 7-10 Oct. 2013 Workshop (MAD important voice in the new generation of architects. He is architects) the first Chinese architect to win an overseas landmark- building project. As the founder and principal of MAD Architects, Ma leads design across various scales. Francine Francine Houben is a Dutch architect. She graduated http://www.mecanoo.nl/ 17-20 Feb. Workshop Houben from the Delft University of Technology. She is the 2014 (Mecanoo founding partner and creative director of Mecanoo architecten) architecten, based in Delft, The Netherlands. Ken Yeang Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect, ecologist and author http://www.hamzahyeang.com/ 28 Feb. – 1 Workshop known for his signature ecoarchitecture and March 2016 ecomasterplans. Yeang is an early pioneer of ecology- based green design and masterplanning, carrying out design and research in this field since 1971. He was named by the Guardian as "one of the 50 people who could save the planet". .
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