Beirut-Rotterdam: Complex Urban Recoveries

Online via WebEx

As part of the collaboration between both TU Delft and LAU’s Institute for Environmental Studies and Research [IESR], this webinar will address the topics of reconstruction, urban planning, and heritage, connecting the Rotterdam experience with the current situation in Beirut. Within the framework of Complex Projects at TU Delft, and in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies and Research at LAU, the master’s level studio will address Beirut’s multiple acute challenges, notably its protracted socio-economic crisis, the reconstruction of Beirut and the restoration of its heritage.

Speakers:

On Rotterdam: The Empty Center
Kees Kaan, Founding partner KAAN Architecten, Chair of the Department of Architecture at TU Delft

Beirut, Post-disaster City
Maroun Daccache, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at LAU

On Beirut: The Forgotten Port
Vincent Panhuysen, Partner KAAN Architecten

On Beirut Studio: The Change
Hrvoje Smidihen, Architect at KAAN Architecten, Lecturer at TU Delft

In case you missed the lecture, click here to view the recording.