World Architecture Festival: Sir David Adjaye, Sir Peter Cook and Reinier de Graaf to speak
November 2018’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Center, will have a speaker list boasting some of the biggest names in architecture.
Adjaye Associates principal Sir David Adjaye, UNstudio co-founder Caroline Bos, Crab Studio founder Sir Peter Cook, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf and AECOM EMEA head of architecture Jennifer Dixon will all speak at the event, among others.
WAF attendees will be able to go on architectural tours of Amsterdam over the festival weekend, much like in previous editions in Berlin. These will include the city’s Central Waterfront, its Eastern and Western Docklands and the business district Zuidas.
Sir David Adjaye OBE, principal, Adjaye Associates
Aaron Betsky, president, School of Architecture, Taliesin
Caroline Bos, co?founder/principal urban planner, UNStudio
Kees Christiaanse, founder, KCAP Architects&Planners
Prof. Sir Peter Cook, founder and architect, Crab Studio
Reinier de Graaf, partner, Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Jennifer Dixon, head of architecture, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), AECOM
Brian Eckersley, director, Eckersley O’Callaghan
Andreas Enslin, head of design, Miele
Simon Henley, principal, Henley Halebrown Rorrison
Francine Houben, founder/CEO, Mecanoo Architecten
Razia Iqbal, journalist and arts correspondent, BBC
Willem Jan Neutelings, founder, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten
Charles Jencks, architecture critic and theorist
Lesley Lokko, head of Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg
Chad Oppenheim, principal, Oppenheim Architecture + Design
James O’Callaghan, director, Eckersley O’Callaghan
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner, OMA
Keith Priest, partner, Fletcher Priest Architects
Andrés Ramirez, co-founder and managing director, PLANE–SITE
Michiel Riedijk, founder, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten
Christina Seilern, principal, Studio Seilern
Michael Seum, vice president of design, Grohe AG
Misak Terzibasiyan, founder and owner, UArchitects
John Wardle, principal, John Wardle Architects
Maria Warner Wong, design director and co-founder, Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects
Li Xiaodong, founder professor, School of Architecture, Li Xiaodong Atelier, Tsinghua University
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