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Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the World Architecture Festival has revealed its speaker line up for the 2017 event taking place at the Arena Berlin for the second time from 15-17 November.

A collection of world-class architects will come together to speak at the event including Pierre de Meuron, Alison Brooks, Rafael Viñoly and Charles Jencks.

This year’s programme responds to the Festival’s theme, ‘Performance’, and will include speeches, discussions and debates examining the topic of performance from the perspectives of housing, public spaces, festivals, cultural institutions and new technologies.

Program highlights include:

Performance as space, time and architecture

• Rafael Viñoly is a former super-jury chair and keynote speaker at WAF
• How does the concept of performance apply in his varied work?
• How projects range from the Tokyo Forum complex including a temporary mobile performance space he is designing in Berlin
  

Rafael Viñoly, Founder and Principal, Rafael Viñoly Architects

Performance in Context

• Richard Francis-Jones is a multiple WAF award-winner
• How does the approach to performance vary in his work?
• Do we need to think about commercial buildings, residential and cultural as fundamentally different, or fundamentally similar?

Richard Francis-Jones, Design Director, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Performance Spaces

• Alison Brooks is the Architects' Journal architect of the year, and was the recent Women in Architecture winner
• How do you assess the success in the way residential projects work?
• Jacob Kurek is a partner in the Henning Larsen practice (Danish), and has substantial experience of working in the Middle Easy for international clients
• How does architecture perform in extreme climatic conditions?What lessons can be learned about coping with heat and cold?

Alison Brooks, Creative Director, Alison Brooks Architects
Jacob Kurek, Partner, Henning Larsen Architect

Transforming environmental performance

• Can exemplary environmental performance be achieved in a climate such as India's?
• What strategies can make a truly significant difference?
• What performance measurements are relevant in assessing results?

Manit and Sonali Rastogi, Morphogenisis

View the full program here.

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