The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for Architects in the United States. It’s Headquarter is in Washington, D.C. and has over 90,000 worldwide members. It is represented in the Middle East through the American Institute Of Architects, Middle East Chapter which has over 500 members and covers 10 countries of the Mena Region (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon).
AIA ME board includes 28 members covering all 10 middle eastern countries and headed for 2019 by the Lebanese American architect & Phd Holder, Dr. Chucri Haddad. In Lebanon, Architect and designer Samer Haddad is serving as AIA ME Country Representative.
AIA ME Year End Conference
Despite the ongoing situation and the challenges Lebanon is passing through, AIA ME succeeded in organizing its 7th Middle Eastern big conference event in Lebanon at AUB between November 23 and November 24.
It is the first time AIA ME organizes such big event (Year End Conference) in Lebanon: during previous years, this event was conducted in Bahrain, Sharjah, Cairo, Dubai, etc.
Students, architects, academics and professionals have been able to come together to Beirut to attend our 7th Conference of AIA ME. Speakers from renowned international and Local firms elaborated on their experience working in Beirut and other cities in line with the Conference theme of “Architecture in Context”: Christos Passas from Zaha Hadid Office, Antoine Chaaya from Renzo Piano, Jonas Malmburg from Alvar Alto Foundation, Bernard Khoury, Raed Abilama and others gathered in Beirut and contributed in making this event happen.
AIA ME Year End Conference Lebanon
We are very proud that our event was successfully conducted despite all the ongoing unrests. In the end, Lebanon in general and Beirut in particular proved to remain e a hub for cultural events and a model of city bending modern with traditional.
AIA ME Lecture - Architecture 4.0 and the Question of identity-Amman
Presented by :Dr.Abed Badran
Saturday, 24 August 2019
As technology and architecture have always been intrinsically linked, their operational relationships has been dramatically strengthened by the recent advent of computational design, digital fabrication and the tremendous impact of new systems; the Internet of Things (IoT); robotics, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI). Significantly, this has been affecting on the way we used to question their cultural relations today and historically, and on the way we used to conceive our humanity. The aim of this lecture is to develop the concept of "Architecture 4.0" as a response to the fourth industrial revolution, examining the location of culture and the architecture future practice, passing through the shift in technology, tectonics, identity, contents, talentism, the power of algorithm and resistance.
AIA ME Movie Night - Bauhaus Spirit : 100 Years of Bauhaus Riyadh
Sunday, 15 September 2019
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus with this lively and wide-ranging exploration of the movement uniting modern design, art, architecture and performing arts with communal social living to form an academic discipline and utopian way of life. Mono Gallery serves as the perfect backdrop where you will enjoy their current exhibition after the movie. The event will begin promptly at 7:15pm with a 90-minute run time. Please arrive on time. #architecture #architect #aiame #design #designer #bauhaus #riyadh #ksa #saudiarabia
AIA ME Lectures-Alkhobar
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
AIA Middle East in collaboration with the Scientific program of Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture (AFAMA) are pleased to invite you to the following lectures focusing on sustainability in architecture What’s Next in Sustainability by Gopalkrishnan Padmnabhan Day 1 | A lecture will be presented by Gopalkrishnan Padmnabhan covering the employment of green buildings in communities and cities, and discuss its effect on the health and wellbeing of occupants. The lecture will also go over IoT Platform as a tool for assessing real-time building performance. HVAC Smart Systems in Mosque Architecture by Eng. Hamed Al Arfaj Day 2 | A lecture will be presented by Eng. Hamed Al Arfaj to talk about the latest technology in energy efficient AC Systems that are compatible with Solar Panels. Audience will also observe a real- life application of these systems.
AIA ME Lecture - Lost in transition-Lebanon Presented by Architect : Wael al-Awar
Monday, 14 October 2019
AIA ME Lebanon in collaboration with Ramez G. Chaghoury Faculty of Architecture, Arts & Design at Notre Dame University - Louaize, cordially invites you to a lecture by Architect Wael Al Awar, founder of Dubai based ibda design. Fundamental to ibda design’s work is the project concept, which acts as a guide for architectural decisions. With no shared first language, Wael and Teramoto, communicate through the process of architecture itself, using diagrams of relations, model studies and research. The principal architects extensively interact to input their individual design sensibilities into a layering of considerations, resulting in an architecture of natural light, time, structure, and landscape. By aligning with these natural phenomena, they seek an architecture that is open to adaptation and appropriation. The spaces that emerge from this approach encourage activities while being resolved as site-specific provocations to their context.
AIA ME Lecture - From Al Andalus to Al Manama, Loving Architecture-Bahrain Presented by: Eduardo Guerrero-Strachan
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Led by Eduardo Guerrero-Strachan of HCP Architecture & Engineering, Eduardo explores the architectural design experience from an international architect’s vision working internationally and drawing parallels between his home country of Spain and his current home of Bahrain. The presentation explores the design process through the nomad experience and the importance of appreciating different contexts and designing appropriately. Designing & practicing architecture from Al Andalus to Al Manama is all about love & passion for the discipline & place.
Khobar Planning: Modern Urbanism Revisited - Bahrain Presented by: Atef Alshehri
Sunday, 8 December 2019
With the launch of its city plan in 1947, Khobar was the first experiment of urban planning in Saudi Arabia. The discovery & production of oil in 1938 led to drastic social, economic, and urban changes in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia where ARAMCO ran its operations. During that period, urban conditions were still deeply rooted in their old heritage. Oil enterprise accelerated growth by a few hundred years, by superimposing a 20th century business on a 15th century economy. Khobar’s urban growth was the first manifestation of this change. The talk will be led by Atef Alshehri, an architect, consultant and urbanist based in Saudi Arabia. .
