DOHA: Acclaimed architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Rem Koolhaas, whose current projects include the new Qatar National Library, will deliver the keynote address at the Tasmeem Doha 2013 Conference.
The public event tomorrow starts at 7.30pm at the Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Centre Ballroom.
Multi-awarded Koolhaas is one of the foremost architects, known for his pioneering buildings around the world, books, exhibitions, teaching and projects in the fields of media, sociology, fashion and technology, with OMA’s think tank, AMO.
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, in partnership with the Qatar Foundation and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art recently concluded lab and workshop sessions of its biennial international design conference Tasmeem Doha 2013 - ‘Hybrid Making’.
A major component of the conference is the exploration of the role art and design is playing in the transformation of Qatar from a small pearl fishing community to a pre-eminent centre for arts and popular tourism destination.
The theme ‘hybrid making’ explores hybridity within acts of making, building and sustaining a contemporary society, engaging with art, design and other interventions conceived, designed or fabricated in Qatar.
Mathaf hosted 13 student laboratories. For five days groups of 20-25 students and faculty, led by international designers and artists, designed and created full-scale semi-permanent structures (walk-in sculptures), performances or catalytic interventions.
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