ArchiDesign Talks - Samir Nicholas Saddi

ArchiDesign Talks'22 continues with Samir Nicolas Saddi on Monday, 9 May. Born in 1950, the Canadian-Lebanese architect has managed projects such as iconic cultural buildings including the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and the Louvre Abu Dhabi, as well as the Phase I exhibitions at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.

As a photographer, he has held more than 30 solo exhibitions worldwide, mostly featuring abstraction works but also focusing on the vernacular architecture of West/North Africa and the Arab world. In his latest exhibition titled 'OLD CITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST', opened in June 2016 at Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD), he addressed endangered and valuable urban and architectural heritage.

Samir Nicolas Saddi is also the director of ARCADE (www.arcaderesearch.net), an architectural research laboratory he founded in 1975.