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New speakers announced at WAF!
Singapore Architecture News - Sep 02, 2015 - 11:12 4284 views
from left to right: Michael Sorkin, Professor Dirk Hebel, Professor Bob Sheil, Honor Harger, Jordan Brandt, Alan Balfour, Scott Duncan, Chris Hardie.
World Architecture Festival (WAF) will be held between 4-6 November 2015 in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. With just two months to go until WAF kick off there are some seriously exciting additions to the WAF speaker programme. Download the latest brochure to see the full programme and speaker line up.
The most influential voices in academia, practice and outside of the industry will be speaking at WAF. Book your place to be inspired and updated by:
Michael Sorkin, one of the world’s most influential architecture critics will pose the question, where do we go from here?
Professor Dirk Hebel, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Construction, ETH Future Cities Laboratory and Professor Bob Sheil, Director of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL will discuss some of the most exciting recent developments in material innovation including engineered bamboo and laser sintered glass made from desert sand
Honor Harger, digital art champion and Executive Director of Singapore’s Art and Science Museum, will give her thoughts on whether new technologies and techniques are driving aesthetic boundaries?
Scott Duncan, Design Director at SOM will unveil the world’s first supertall tower for which energy is the primary design driver and how it achieves net zero energy consumption
Alan Balfour, Former Dean, Georgia Tech College of Architecture will talk on Shanghai – 50:50, understanding the context behind the speed of development and foreseeing the new challenges will experience over the next five decades?
Jordan Brandt, Futurologist at Autodesk will divulge eight trends shaping the future of making things, how 3D will become social and the architects leading spatial design for Augmented Reality
Chris Hardie, Principal, Schmidt Hammer Lassen will give an update from Ningbo, one of China’s renaissance cities that you may not have heard of