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Professional Indemnity in 2021: Crisis, Cyclical Change or Chance to Reset?

Paul Berg, Partner | Group Director, Professional Risks, Griffiths & Armour

Jonathan Hall, Directo…

In Conversation With Sir David Adjaye

Join Paul Finch for a live conversation with celebrated Ghanaian-British architect; Sir David Adjaye who has achieved international acclaim for an exceptional bod…

Post Covid Homes: The Self-Sufficient City for Post-Covid Life

This lecture will present a new generation of housing projects designed to fight both the health and climate crisis we face. Guallart wil…

Inside Keynote Lecture: Insights into Healthy Interiors

In light of the challenges society is facing, UNStudio’s founder Ben van Berkel, will present on the integral and human-centric approach to heal…

Jeanne Gang Keynote Talk

Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal, Studio Gang

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This session was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

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International Question Time, pt. 2

Discussion session of major WAF past contributors – dealing with the major issues of the day

Maria Warner Wong, Design Director, Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects

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Post Covid Workplace: Space-Time Office

Andrew Chadwick, Principal, Chadwick International 

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

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International Question Time

Discussion session dealing with the major issues of the day from an international perspective

Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor Department of Architecture, University of Washing…

Panel discussion: The sustainably use of timber in construction. Brought to you by the Forest Stewardship Council

Chair: Hattie Hartman, Sustainability Editor for the Architects’ Journal

Panel members:

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WAF Keynote

Elizabeth Diller, Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2019.

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Massimiliano Fuksas, Co-Founder, Studio Fuksas: WAF Keynote

Massimiliano Fuksas, Co-Founder, Studio Fuksas

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 201…

Open Building: A Future Perspective on Habraken’s Heritage

Marc Koehler’s term as the Architect in Residence at the Architectuur Centrum Amsterdam is drawing to a close in December, concluding a perio…

Identity: Towards A Reflexive Regionalist Practice of Architecture

Li Xiaodong, Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University.

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

I have …

Beyond Binary

Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal, Studio Gang

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Many of our inherited binary notions of identity—female/male, nature/city, w…

Mecanoo, the Asia experience.

Francine Houben, Founding Partner and Creative Director, Mecanoo 

Chair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture Festival

Exploring the recently opened projects …

WAF Keynote

Sir David Adjaye, Principal, Adjaye Associates

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAF 2018.

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Rafael Vinoly, Founder, Rafael Vinoly Architects

•RV is a former super-jury chair and keynote speaker at WAF.

•How does the concept of performance apply in his varied work?

•How does projects range from…

Pierre de Meuron, Founding Partner, Herzog & de Meuron, and Charles Jencks, Architecture Critic and Theorist

•Critic Charles Jencks will present the recently completed Elbphilharmone in Hamburg; Pierr…

Mathias Kohler, Co-Founder, Gramazio Kohler Architects

•How will robotics affect the performance of the construction industry?

•What are the implications of greater automation for architectural practic…

Louisa Hutton, Founding Partner, Sauerbruch Hutton

This keynote was recorded at WAF 2017.

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