Icaade2019

We are pleased to announce that one of our plenary speakers will be Amelie Rost!

Florentine-Amelie Rost is an architect, educator and researcher.
The central aspect of her practice and academic work evolves around “city and water” on various architectural and urban scales.
Together with her office partner Jörg Niderehe, she founded the architectural office Rost.Niderehe Architects I Engineers in Hamburg (Germany) in 2008, after winning the design competition “Houseboats on the Eilbekkanal.” Upon completion, their first house boat received the “AIT- Living Application Award 2013” and was shortlisted by the German wood construction award “Deutscher Holzbaupreis 2011.”
During the last ten years Rost.Niderehe have built multiple floating residences and offices in Hamburg and have been involved in the development of a floating settlement on the Jinhai-Lake, near Beijing, China. From 2011 to 2014 Florentine-Amelie Rost taught urban design and interdisciplinary design projects at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, where she was also a research associate in the Department of Urban Design and Architecture from 2014 to 2017. As part of her doctoral thesis, she currently examines how new demands affect the meaning and further development of inner-ctiy water surfaces.

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We are happy to announce that one of our plenary speakers will be Han Slawik, author of IBA DOCK floating building in Hamburg.
Han Slawik is an architect and researcher. He holds a degree from Technical University of Braunschweig. He was a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Coburg/Bavaria and a Professor of Experimental design and construction at the Leibniz University Hannover. He started studios for architecture and technology - architech - in which authored numerous experimental buildings and projects. He is an author of international publications, prices / awards, lectures about “container architecture” and “floating buildings”. With container buildings he participated in Biennale Venice 2004, Biennale Sao Paulo 2011 (IBA DOCK), Exhibition “Living Spaces Today” in Havana/Cuba 2016 and Roadshow Cuba 2017, Building Expo Tiny Housing in Almere-Poort/NL2019.
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Congratulations to our keynote speaker Saif Ul Haque, for being among the winners of the first prize for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019!

https://www.akdn.org/press-release/winners-2019-aga-khan-award-architecture-announced