Speaker

Maurizio Meossi, Associate Director, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK

Maurizio has worked on some of ZHA’s largest scale residential projects across the world, including Italy, Australia and Mexico. In Italy, he successfully led the design team for the residential cluster of buildings that form the new CityLife complex in Milan. Completed in 2014, the project is formed of 6 medium rise towers organised around a wide green communal space. Maurizio has been involved as Project Associate for several large scale mixed use developments world-wide. Maurizio is a highly accomplished Architect with a wealth of experience spanning a wide variety of building typologies, including masterplanning, commercial, residential, and cultural developments.

Featured Projects: ZHA Education and Cultural Building overview, with focus on NSC Science Center in Singapore

Debate "Public Spaces"

Moderator: prof.dr.habil.arh. Bogdan Andrei Fezi
Vice President for Partnerships and Institutional Relations, Bucharest Territorial Branch of the Order of Architects of Romania
Special International Guest:

Martha Thorne

Renowned architectural academic, curator, editor, and author | USA / Spain
She served for 15 years as Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was also Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at IE University, Madrid.

Sunand Prasad,

Principal of Perkins&Will, founder of multi-award-winning Penoyre & Prasad, UK
He served as the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2007-09), and was also recent Chair of UK Green Building Council, amongst other public positions

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