This Monday, May 9, ArchiDesign Talks'22 will continue with Samir Nicolas Saddi. He is a Canadian-Lebanese Architect born in 1950. As architect, he managed landmark cultural buildings such as the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Phase I exhibitions of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
As photographer, he has put together more than 30 solo exhibitions worldwide with themes mostly related to abstraction as well vernacular architecture in West/North Africa and the Arab World. His latest Exhibition ‘OLD CITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST’ at Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) in June 2016 showed an amazing urban and architectural heritage under threat.
Samir Nicolas Saddi runs ARCADE (www.arcaderesearch.net), an architectural research lab he founded in 1975.