The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced its speaker line-up for this year?s event, which takes place in Berlin from 15?17 November 2017.
A collection of world-class architects will come together to speak in Berlin including Pierre de Meuron, Alison Brooks, Rafael Viñoly and Charles Jencks. This year?s programme responds to the Festival?s theme, ?Performanc?, 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. The event takes place in Arena Berlin, a converted 1920s bus station in Treptow, in former East Berlin.
Opening Keynote:

Performance space, time and architecture, Wednesday 15 November 10.20?11.00
Speakers Rafael Viñoly, Principal, Rafael Viñoly Architects
Internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly will examine how the concept of performance ­? creating flexible and integrated architecture that fosters and encourages a wide range of interactions?is applied in the practice?s projects across a variety of building types, including the Tokyo Forum convention centre, the Walkie Talkie office tower in London, and a current project for a temporary mobile performance facility in Berlin.
The programme highlights include:

Keynote ? The Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, discussed. Thursday 16 November, 18.15-19.15

Speakers: Pierre de Meuron, Herzog & de Meuron, Charles Jencks, Co-Founder Maggie?s Care Centres
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