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About Middle East Stone Middle East Stone show on 18-21 May, 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, provides a dedicated platform for the thriving stone industry. The event is expected to draw regional and international designers, architects, contractors and other procurement specialists to source a wide array of finished and unfinished stone products and to learn about the latest global stone technologies, testing and maintenance methods, and industry trends. Featured in the event are stone, stone machinery, tools and equipment, accessories and consumables, abrasives, adhesives and coatings, and, industry services. Premier stone suppliers from China, India, Turkey, Italy, Iran, Spain, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan, UK and Germany are expected to exhibit during the show. Going to the event this year means getting free access to up-to-date and innovative educational content developed by the Middle East Stone team and its advisory board members. There are 40 certified seminars about the latest global stone design, technologies, methodologies of testing and maintenance, and trends across sectors with local, regional and international experts as speakers. These will be in two main forums: • Middle East Stone Show Educational Programme, May 18 to 21, 2015 • The Designers’ Forum, May 19-21, 2015 The show runs alongside other dmg events such as INDEX, Workspace at INDEX and Middle East Covering. - See more at: https://www.middleeaststone.com/contact/about-us/about-mestone/#sthash.mjnhPzj6.dpuf

INDEX International Design Exhibition is the largest business platform for the interior design and architecture community to source products for their projects across the residential, retail and hospitality projects. With over 700 market-leading companies and brands from more than 50 countries showcasing thousands of products, INDEX remains the number one interiors event in the MENA region, attracting more than 20,000 visitors from over 100 countries. INDEX hosts manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors of a variety of contract interior and fit-out products and services across 8 product sectors. In addition to the exhibition, INDEX hosts a number of features and events to bring the Architecture and Design community together to discuss, debate and discover, the latest industry trends, developments and innovations. More on Event Website

Cityscape Global has been running for years and has now become the key event during which real estate investors, developers, regional and city investment promotion authorities, architects, designers and other real estate professionals gather together to share thoughts and ideas and drive growth in the real estate markets around the world. Cityscape is the annual opportunity to build and maintain your presence across Middle East real estate markets. Event Website: http://www.cityscapeglobal.com/

MIT Architecture http://architecture.mit.edu/lecture/5-projects 5 Projects Featuring the Ism Project, the Mat Project, the Urb Project, the Alt Project, and the Rep Project, through which one will get an idea of the current concerns of his practice. This lecture is part of the Open House for Admitted Students. Yung Ho Chang Professor of the Practice, MIT; Principal, FCJZ Atelier Originally from Beijing and educated both in China and in the US, Chang received Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. He has been practicing in China since 1992 and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1986, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, and the Academy Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006. He has published eight books and monographs so far, including one in English/French entitled Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice and one in Italian entitled Yung Ho Chang: Luce chiara, camera oscura. He participated in many international exhibitions of art and architecture, including five times in the Venice Biennale since 2000. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA and China; he was a Professor and Founding Head of Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University from 1999 to 2005; he held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard in 2002 and the Eliel Saarinen Chair at Michigan in 2004. Since 2011, became a Pritzker Prize Jury member.

MIT Architecture: http://architecture.mit.edu/lecture/altered-trajectories Altered Trajectories The 24th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture Increasingly our interests as an office lie along a certain trajectory: -in the work of constructing symbiotic relationships between things -in the material built manifestations of those relationships -in the resulting constructed material presence of that exchange -and, in the complexities of execution that are engaged in the process - related images attached: Skating Shelters, Winnipeg, Manitoba OLA Church project, Vancouver, BC Daegu Gosan Library competition, Soeul, Korea Patricia Patkau Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia; Co-founder, Patkau Architects Throughout her career Patricia has been committed to both teaching and practice. She is currently Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. In addition to practice and faculty based teaching, she has lectured, taught and been a guest critic at universities and institutions in Canada, the United States and around the world. In March 2009, Patricia was awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Gold medal for exemplary commitment to architectural education and the practice of architecture. Patkau Architects has received significant national and international awards, including thirteen Governor General’s Medals, four Progressive Architecture Awards, sixteen Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, and an RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence, three AIA Honor Awards and, this year, an American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award. The work of the office has been published and exhibited widely. Numerous articles in books and professional journals and three books dedicated exclusively to the firm’s work have been published. The work has also been represented in exhibitions around the world, including 20 solo exhibitions, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 1996, Patkau Architects represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. In over 25 years of practice, both in Canada and in the United States, Patkau Architects has been responsible for the design of a wide variety of building types for a diverse range of clients. Projects vary in scale from gallery installations to urban planning. Projects types include private residences, libraries, art galleries, schools, and university buildings. All projects are concerned with the intricacies of local cultures, the specificities of places and the material imaginations of construction.

SWISS POSITIONS/ 33 takes on sustainable approaches to building The travelling exhibition entitled "Swiss Positions: 33 takes on sustainable approaches to building" is a collection of photographs of 33 key projects from the Swiss construction sector over the past twenty years, which all have something to do with the theme of sustainable development. Swiss architecture and engineering enjoy an excellent reputation and high visibility not only on account of the quality of technical expertise and the inventiveness of their designers, but also on account of a far-reaching concern with sustainable development. For more info please visit: Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera