25th of September
08.45 - 09.20 | Guest Registration
09.25 - 11.15 | SESSION l
Welcome Messages
MEKHRIBANU GLAUDINOVA
Conference Chair
SHARE Architecture Society Ambassador in Kazakhstan, Head of the UNESCO Chair IEC (KazGASA)
FLORIN MINDIRIGIU
Founder SHARE Architects
YEVGENIYA KOZHA - AKHMET
PR- director of RAMS QAZAQSTAN
Master plan. Polycenteric development of Almaty
ASKHAT SADUOV
General Director of the Research Institute “Almatygenplan”
RAMS QAZAQSTAN presentation
ISLAM PENYUKOV
Director of Residential Real Estate Sales Rams Qazaqstan
SHARE OPERA OMNIA AWARD – Lifetime Achievement Recognition
Introduction made by prof. Aurelia Carpov, International Relations Officer of the Union of Architects of the Republic of Moldova, SHARE Architects Society Ambassador in Moldova
Laureat: Lyubov Nyssanbayeva
MIRODIL JAMOLOV
Founder of Memorial Architectural Project, Uzbekistan
PETER MURRAY
Co-Founder of New London Architecture Society, Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, Founder of the London Festival of Architecture, UK
TUGSU CHINBAT
Chief Architect at the Mayor’s Office of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
„Augmented Imagination: Zaha Hadid Architects’ AI-Powered Design”
MANUELA GATTO
Director Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) advance an AI-powered augmented design theory where artificial intelligence acts as a creative partner rather than mere automation. Our work combines generative AI, immersive technologies, and data-driven simulation to expand architectural exploration. Beyond design imagery, ZHA applies AI to simulation and fabrication via platforms like NVIDIA Omniverse, where robotic construction is modelled virtually before execution. Overall, ZHA’s theory integrates creativity, simulation, and social insight, augmenting—rather than replacing—human imagination.
Q&A
11.15 - 11.40 | Coffee Break
11.40 - 13.25 | SESSION ll
„Learning from Our Own Mistakes: An Honest Conversation about Architecture”
Ошибки архитектора в успешных проектах
ALEXEY IVZHENKO
Co-Founder, Basire Design Group, Kazakhstan
Through seven projects, the lecture will reveal how even successful designs hold lessons within their mistakes, illustrating how embracing challenges can spark creativity, inspire new solutions, and shape the evolution of architectural practice.
„Architecture of coexistence”
SIMONE SFRISO
Founder TAM Associati, Italy
In architectural design, the thoughtful and responsible use of available material resources and the needs of physical and social spaces, often perceived as limitations, must instead be considered fundamental prerequisites for a project aimed at new forms of creativity. It's about thinking about a sort of "economic ecology" alongside environmental ecology, capable of generating a sober, essential, and simple architecture that combines beauty and efficiency, respect for the environment and people.
„The Poetry of Water: Where Technology Meets Design”
MARC RAEHSE
Leader International Projects, LIXIL Europe, Grohe
With our subbrand GROHE SPA, we not only ensure pure joy of water, we create unique moments the moment you enter a bathroom.
The design elements combined with the power of each individual spray typology of our GROHE SPA products create a multisensory water experience, transforming daily routines into moments of luxury, wellbeing, and poetic harmony.
„Modular innovation and adaptive facades”
DIANA MORARI-KOROTKY
Founder Architype, Republic of Moldova
A lecture that will explore how progressive and sustainable approaches to façade design are shaping the next generation of building envelopes, creating systems that are both more complex and more efficient. Participants will discover how modular structures, assembled in controlled factory environments, together with translucent and adaptive façades, are pushing design beyond the ordinary and redefining the urban landscape.
„Natural Systems”
DEAN LAH
Founder Enota Architects, Slovenia
This lecture explores how natural and self-organising systems inspire Enota’s architecture. Through selected projects, it shows how parallel explorations of function and site reveal points of tension that drive innovation. The audience will discover how digital tools and adaptive design methods turn complexity into coherent, context-sensitive solutions.
„Architecture underground”
BALAZS CSAPO
Founder Paragram, Hungary
The presentation highlights the importance of the architectural design within large scale infrastructural interventions. The selected projects will show the creation and the reconstruction of the Budapest metro lines. You can learn the principals of designing multiple stations simultaneously, finding balance between the identical and the uniform identity.
„Urban Planning and Open Spaces”
RAINER SCHMIDT
Founder Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten, Germany
This lecture will present case studies from China and Saudi Arabia that demonstrate how large-scale urban and landscape projects integrate cultural identity, ecological strategies, and human-centered design to shape the public realm as the “business card” of a city. The audience will gain insights into design principles such as spatial harmony, human scale, and sustainability, while also discovering innovative approaches including wellness-oriented planning, the integration of cultural narratives, and the use of spatial proportions and edges in open space design to foster identity, belonging, and resilience in urban environments.
Q&A
13.25 - 14.10 | Lunch
14.10 - 15.55 | SESSION IIl
"Mobility as a possibility"
ARTUR SHAKHBAZYAN
Head of Transport Project Office, Almaty
Transport infrastructure is a necessity for the cities. It competes with buildings and public spaces for cities' territory, therefore needs to be designed in the most efficient way. Speculative project of redesign of Almaty's main transport corridor will demonstrate how it can be done.
PANEL 3
„From Chaos Comes Character”
BENJAMIN WALKER
Director LDA, UK
The lecture will explore how cities, with all their inherent chaos and complexity, can be reimagined through a landscape approach that blends historic, existing, and potential character to bring vibrancy and beauty back to forgotten spaces. The audience will be encouraged to rethink design processes and interventions, questioning whether the language we use is appropriate and where sustainability transitions into longevity. Through examples from projects worldwide and in Kazakhstan, the presentation will illustrate how the journey from drawing to delivery can transform spaces, districts, and entire cities.
„Signed in Space, Sealed in Time”
SOH WEE KEONG
Deputy CEO of CPG International
Tropical Pragmatism — an ethos combining sustainability, resilience, and technology to create people-centered, climate-smart architecture, showcasing the legacy and regional relevance through three key notes: transforming constraints into opportunities through pragmatic, sustainable design, integrating cultural identity with modern functionality for enduring impact, and building future-ready cities where nature, technology, and people thrive together.
„ROOTED RESILIENCE: Social Infrastructure for South Asia's Climate-Vulnerable Cities”
MADHAV RAMAN
Principal & Co-Founder, Anagram Architects, India
The rapid expansion of South Asian cities is blurring the boundaries between urban, rural, and wilderness areas, with unplanned peripheral settlements creating a crisis in public spaces and infrastructure. Centralized systems such as water, sewage, and transport cannot keep pace, leaving diverse populations underserved. Through three projects—a green crematorium, decentralized slum toilets, and a disassemblable auditorium—Madhav explores new possibilities for strengthening the “public-ness” of the urban fringe.
„Acclimatizing Architecture”
ANOUK LEGENDRE
Co-Founder XTU Architects, France
With climate change, architectural practices are changing: from cultural projects to climate projects, museums are getting involved and experimenting to forge a new alliance with nature, preserve resources, reuse water, and cool cities. This architectural laboratory is giving rise to new solutions for building cities that are adapted to global warming.
„Shaping the future”
ROMAN KRISTESIASHVILI
Senior Associate UN Studio ,The Netherlands
A Vision for Tomorrow's Workspaces shows how offices are evolving into destinations that inspire innovation, belonging, and connection. The new TBC headquarters, designed with an “inside-out” approach, will act as a catalyst for socio-economic growth, creating a financial knowledge center and fostering collaboration with local entrepreneurs and communities. Drawing inspiration from the highland village of Shatili, the project integrates nature and architecture to shape a vibrant new district.
"Mad Architects. Mad Works"
ANDREA D'ANTRASSI
Partner Mad Architects China, Europe Office - Italy
Q&A
15.55 - 16.20 | COFFEE BREAK
16.20 - 18.30 | SESSION IV
RICCARDO MARINI
Founder Marini Urbanismo
DILNOZA AHMAD
Director Perfect Design ARH
SERGIU PETREA
Managing Partner at TecTo Arhitectura
„Quality of Light”
DENIS BISKUP
Head of Brand and Services, CEE, Zumtobel Lighting GmbH
"Towards a New Critical Regionalism – An Approach in Practice"
DUARTE LOBO ANTUNES
Director of A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE, UK
How can a practice that seeks to be global and built on universal values produce designs that are deeply rooted in their place, without resorting to sentimentality and pastiche? In 1983 the Anglo-American critic and historian Kenneth Frampton wrote the essay Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance where he identified an approach that could counter universalisation with specific architecture. His talk will focus on selected A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE projects and their design process to show how in these most interconnected and automatic of times we can look again at the peripheries – their traditions and local conditions - and resist new waves of lazy sameness.
„Intensity, Innovation and Transformation - A Global perspective”
JOHN BUSHELL
Design Pincipal Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), UK
KPF, working across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, explores three key themes shaping today’s cities: mixed-use intensity, illustrated by dynamic projects in New York, Dubai, and Hong Kong; innovation and the knowledge economy, through campuses and research hubs in Boston, London, and Shanghai; and transformations through reuse of embodied carbon, using the “Keep, Edit, Add” approach with landmark projects in London, New York, and Shanghai.
PANEL 7
KEY FORUM DEBATE
Moderators:
PETER MURRAY
Co-Founder of New London Architecture Society, Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, Founder of the London Festival of Architecture, UK
RICCARDO MARINI, Founder Marini Urbanismo
Guests:
JOHN BUSHELL, Design Pincipal Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), UK
DILNOZA AHMAD, Director Perfect Design ARH
ROMAN KRISTESIASHVILI, Senior Associate UN Studio,The Netherlands
MARC RAEHSE - Leader International Projects, LIXIL Europe, Grohe
DIANA MORARI-KOROTKY , Founder Architype, Republic of Moldova
MADHAV RAMAN, Principal & Co-Founder, Anagram Architects, India
ANOUK LEGENDRE, Co-Founder XTU Architects, France
18.30 | Concluding Remarks and Official Group Photograph