Conference Program

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

See below for an overview of the program.

View the detailed Program Booklet here.

DAY 1 - FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER

8:00 - 09:00 am Registration & Coffee

9:00 - 9:10 am AIA ME Welcome Remarks

Li Ren, AIA Middle East I President

9:10 - 9:30 am Opening Address

Jordan Engineering Association

9:30 - 10:00 am AIA National Address

Illya Azaroff, FAIA, AIA National I President-Elect

10:00 - 10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 am Humanized Urbanism

Dr. Rasem Badran, Dar Al Omran I Founder & Partner

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members

11:15 - 12:00 am Design as Dialogue - Architecture as a Living Conversation

Eli Synnevag, Snøhetta I Senior architect and Director of acquisition

12:00 - 1:15 pm Prayer & Lunch Break

1:15 - 2:00 pm 70 Years of Empowering Clients and Uplifting Communities with Every Solution We Deliver

Arch Khalil Fakhoury, Dar Al-Handasah | Partner

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members (Synnevag, Arch Khalil Fakhoury sessions)

2:00 - 2:15 pm Build for Generations

Arch Khalid Shamlawi, Juton I Regional Specification Manager

2:15 - 3:00 pm On the Edge of Architecture, A Thematic Approach

Arch.Akram Abu Hamdan, Charted member of the Royal Institute of British Architects

3:00 - 3:45 pm 1. The Petra Museum as a Living Mosaic of Place, Memory, and Collaboration

Tadayoshi Tsumoto, Yamashita Sekkei | Managing Executive Officer

2. Petra Museum: Standing at the Edge of History

Hazem Nimri, Maisam Architects | CEO

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members (Arch. Akram Abu Hamdan, Tadayoshi Tsumoto, Hazem Nimri sessions)

3:45 - 4:00 pm Transition To Buses

4:00 - 7:00 pm Salt City Tour

CES: 3 LU for AIA ME Members

7:00 pm Buses back to Hotels

DAY 2- SATURDAY 22NOVEMBER

8:00 - 8:30 am Coffee & Networking

8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome Speech

HRH Princess Dana Firas, Petra National Trust President & UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Heritage

8:45 - 9:30 am Zaha Hadid Architects

Christos Passas, Zaha Hadid Architects | Partner

9:30 - 10:15 am Architecture as Palimpsest / Intervention within Existing Settings as Privilege

Dr Rami Daher, German Jordanian University | Professor

TURATH for Studies and Design | Co-Founder

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members (Christos Passas, Dr Rami Daher sessions)

10:15 - 10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15 am 30 Years Preserving the Built Heritage of Jordan and Palestine : Research, Intervention, Presentation and Education

Dr. Ignacio Arce, German Jordanian University I Associate Professor

11:15 - 12:00 am Shaping our Cities and Communities

Tariq Khayayat, TKDP Partner

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members (Dr.Ignacio Arce, Tariq Khayayat sessions)

12:00 - 12:15 am Innovating Aluminium Building Systems for Sustainable Built Environment

Moussa Obeid, Technal Middle East I Pre-Sales Manager, KSA

12:15 - 1:15 pm Prayer & Lunch Break

1:15 - 1:45 pm Partnerships With and For The Cultural Heritage, The Case of The Urban & Rural Jordanian Architectural Heritage

Arch Leen Fakhoury, German Jordanian University I Industrial Professor

1:45 - 2:15 pm Ecologies of Making: Reclaiming Material Agency in Architecture and Landscape

Arch. Bisher Tabbaa, FADAA | Co-Founder

Arch. Sarah Hejazin, FADAA | Co-Founder

CES: 1 LU for AIA ME Members (Arch Leen Fakhoury, Arch. Bisher Tabbaa Arch. Sarah Hejazin sessions)

2:15 - 2:30 pm Transition To Buses

3:15 - 06:30 pm Madaba City Tour / Mount. Nebo

CES: 3 LU for AIA ME Members

7:30 - 10:30 pm Gala Dinner + Awards Presentation in the Edge Restaurant, Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead sea

DAY 3 - SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER

8:00 am Buses from Fairmont Amman Hotel

12:00 pm Arrival in Petra, Guided Tour begins

4:00 pm Lunch Break - Hayat Zaman Hotel, Petra

10:00 pm Arrival in Fairmont Amman Hotel

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This conference is brought to you with the generous support of our event partner Jordan Engineers Association & German Jordanian University