Holcim Award Middle East Africa Silver

Venice, Italy
The Holcim Foundation ‘conducts the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction – the world’s most significant competition for sustainable design with total prize money per cycle of USD 2 million. The international competition showcases the important role that architecture, engineering, urban planning, and the building industry have in achieving a more sustainable future…’

‘The Holcim Awards jury Middle East Africa applauded the project’s ambition to restore the integrity and social beliefs of a community through the rehabilitation of Yemeni historic sites rich with social, cultural and spiritual values. The project reaffirms the significance of the inherited aesthetic forms, which have a lasting impact on the quality of their environment. The interventions are conducted with high cultural and environmental awareness, that show a sensitive and respectful approach towards places and their history.’

For more info see Post-war Reconstruction in Yemen (holcimfoundation.org)

Member of the Académie d’Architecture

British architect of Iraqi and Lebanese descent, Professor Salma Samar Damluji, Binladin Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World, was elected member of the Académie d’Architecture in France. Paris, France

Médaille de la Restauration, French Academy of Architecture

Paris, France
Each year, the Academy of Architecture distinguishes personalities whose commitment contributes to the promotion of architecture and the art of building. These awards are distributed in three series: the Architecture Award, the Building Award and the young architects Award, each of these awards comprises various medals.

All of these distinctions reward talent, quality, creativity and are also directed towards the work and research that contributes to the progress of sciences, to the improvement of the architectural debate, to the development of architecture, urbanism, and building techniques and education.

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2012

The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is awarded every year to five architects who are committed to the notion of sustainable development and to a participative approach to the needs of society - whether in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.

The award was created in 2006 by the architect and professor Jana Revedin, and with the support of a range of French and European partners: the Cité de l’architecture & du Patrimoine, responsible for the cultural valorisation and the members of the international Scientific Committee.

The work carried out over these six years has given the Global Award undeniable international recognition.In 2010, Jana Revedin created the LOCUS Fund as a means of assuring the awards’ scientific independence and of federating the Global Award winners in urban renewal projects in developing countries.

SympoSium 2012

14:00 Welcome from François de Mazières, President of the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine
14:15 News about the LOCUS Practice Projects from Jana Revedin, President of the LOCUS Foundation: Urban renewal of the harbour of Shouzhan, masterplan by Wang Shu, GA 2007 Urban renewal of the Zabbaleen district in Cairo, Project “Lighting System”, Bijoy Jain, GA 2009
14:30 Announcement of the Winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2012 With Philippe Peyrat, Director General of the GDF-SUEZ Corporate Foundation, partner of the LOCUS Foundation Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture

Lectures by the Architect Winners of the Global Award 2012

14:45 Salma Samar Damluji, Da’wan Architecture Foundation,
London, England ; Da’wan, Yemen
Moderator, Spela Hudnik, Director, IABL, Ljubljana, Slovenia
15:15 Anne Feenstra, AFIR Architects, Kabul, Afghanistan,
Arch i Platform, Delhi, India
Moderator, Marie-Hélène Contal, Deputy Director, IFA, Paris, France
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Suriya Umpasiriratana, Bangkok, Thailand
Moderator, Kriistina Nivari, Deputy Director, MFA, Helsinki, Finland
16:45 Philippe Madec, Paris, France
Moderator, Christophe Pourtois, Director, CIVA, Brussels, Belgium
17:15 Yashar Handstad, Co-founder, TYIN Architects, Trondheim, Norway
Moderator, Benno Albrecht, Professor, IUAV Venice, Italy

Questions

18:30 - 20:30 Cocktail - Exhibition Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2011 Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine - Foyer de l’auditorium - Hall about