The forum will be hosted and moderated by distinguished professionals such as
DILNOZA AHMAD
SHARE Architects Society Ambassador in Uzbekistan, founder PerfectDesignArh
IMAN O. GAWAD
SHARE Architects Society Ambassador in Egypt, Vice-Dean of the British University in Egypt, Codirector of the UIA commission on the SDG, Councilor and Chairperson Habitat and Environment Commission Africa Union of Architects AUA
AURELIA CARPOV
SHARE Architects Society Ambassador in Moldova
First day of the event | 22nd of September
12.30 - 13.00 | GUESTS REGISTRATION
13.00 - 14.25 | OFFICIAL OPENING SESSION
DILNOZA AHMAD
Conference Chair
SHARE Architects Society Ambassador in Uzbekistan, founder PerfectDesignArh
FLORIN MINDIRIGIU
Founder SHARE Architects
OFFICIAL WELCOME MESSAGES
ADILOV DAVRONJON KABILJANOVICH, Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan
KHASANOV AZAMAT OZADOVICH, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Tashkent University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
AZAMAT RAMZIDDINOVICH TOKHTAEV, President, Union of Architects of Uzbekistan
YUSUPOV BAKHROM NARZIEVICI, President, Union of Architects of Tajikistan
Awards Presentation
Message of Official Sponsor: Presentation of Manar Development
DAVRON FAYZIMATOV, CEO MANAR Development
ALEXANDER LYSOV, Product Expert, founder of MAP Consulting
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: GULSHAIRA MAGAMETOVA
14.25 - 15.10 | LUNCH
15.10 - 16.35 | Urban Design and Constructive Futures. Cities in Transformation
Introduction lecture made by
Prof. arch. MURADHAN USMANOV
PANEL 1
SAIDAZIM SHARIPOV
Chief Architect – New Tashkent, Uzbekistan
"Master Plan. Polycenteric Development of Almaty"
ASKHAT SAUDOV
General Director, AlmatyGenplan Research Institute, Kazakhstan
Making the city accessible across the entire area – without borders or segregation.
Defining a model of centrality at different scales: Global – City – District – Local. Transit-Oriented Development.
Integration of Red, Green, and Transit structures.
"Density or Urban Sprawl? Tashkent"
ISKANDAR SOLIYEV
Urbanist, Archemistry Urban
The presentation uses examples from Barcelona, Singapore, and Seoul to show how density and transit-oriented development enhance livability, applying these lessons to Tashkent by comparing infill and compact growth with the New Tashkent expansion. The audience will learn clear density benchmarks for 4–5M cities, GIS-based analyses of industrial zones and low-rise districts, and the risks and benefits of different strategies, with a focus on Transit-Oriented Development, compact city design, 15-minute blocks, adaptive reuse of industrial land, mid-rise housing, and green-blue infrastructure for sustainable urban growth.
„Urban Planning and Open Spaces”
RAINER SCHMIDT
Founder Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten, Germany
The 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.
SPECIAL GUEST PRESENTATION
KAI UWE-BERGMANN
Partner BIG architecture, Denmark - New York City office, USA
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is one of the world’s most influential architecture firms.The studio operates globally across scales—from furniture to masterplans—and its diverse portfolio includes cultural landmarks, infrastructure, skyscrapers, and entire urban districts, reinforcing BIG’s role as a major force shaping 21st-century architecture.
Discussions
16.35 - 17.00 | Networking Break
17.00 - 18.30 | Designing Human-Centered Cities
KEY SESSION DEBATE
Introduction lecture made by PETER MURRAY, Co-Founder of New London Architecture Society, Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, Founder London Festival of Architecture, UK
Moderator: DILNOZA AHMAD, SHARE Society Ambassador in Uzbekistan, founder PerfectDesignArh
Co-Moderator & Panelist: PETER MURRAY, Co-Founder of New London Architecture Society, Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, Founder London Festival of Architecture, UK
Panelists:
ISKANDAR SOLIYEV, Urbanist, Archemistry Urban, Uzbekistan
KHASANOV AZAMAT OZADOVICH, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Tashkent University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
GULSHAIRA MAGAMETOVA, OMNIA Awards laureate
NIKITA MAKARENKO, Journalist
KAI UWE-BERGMANN, Co-founder BIG architecture, Denmark
RAINER SCHMIDT, Founder Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten, Germany
ASKHAT SAUDOV, General Director, AlmatyGenplan Research Institute, Kazakhstan
DENIS SOKOLOV, Director COMMONWEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CMWP), Uzbekistan
Second day of the event | 23rd of September
09.00 - 09.30 | GUESTS REGISTRATION
09.45 - 11.25 | SESSION I
Introduction lecture made by
IMAN O. GAWAD
Vice-Dean of the British University in Egypt, Codirector of the UIA commission on the SDG, Councilor and Chairperson Habitat and Environment Commission Africa Union of Architects AUA
PANEL 1
„Low-rise residential architecture in the cities of Central Asia
(Малоэтажная жилая архитектура в городах Центральной Азии)”
BOBIR KLICHEV
Founder ARC Bureau, Uzbekistan
The presentation will showcase how modern residential buildings reinterpret the typology of traditional urban houses in Central Asia, blending contemporary design with regional heritage.
„Modular innovation and adaptive facades”
DIANA MORARI-KOROTKY
Founder Architype, Republic of Moldova
The lecture 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.
„Sustainable Futures: Building Responsibly Today”
MARC RAEHSE
Leader, International Projects, LIXIL Europe, Grohe
„Natural Systems”
DEAN LAH
Founder ENOTA Studio, 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.
Discussions
PANEL 2
NOZIM AKHMETOV
Founder of Me’mor magazine
„Acclimatizing Architecture”
ANOUK LEGENDRE
Co-Founder XTU Architects, France
The presentation will explore how museums engage in climate adaptation, forging an alliance with nature through bio-inspired innovation, combining low- and high-tech solutions, and promoting resource and water conservation.
„Intensity, Innovation, Transformation - A Global perspective”
JOHN BUSHELL
Design Principal at 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.
Discussions
11.25 - 11.50 | Coffee Break
11.50 - 13.30 | SESSION II
PANEL 3
„Maple Bear Canadian School in Tashkent”
SARDORBEK SODIQOV
Founder MEMORS, Uzbekistan
The lecture will showcase Maple Bear Canadian School in Tashkent as an example of how global educational standards can be adapted to the local climate and culture, offering practical insights into designing a modern school with climate-responsive strategies, contemporary materials such as stone, glass, and wood, flexible and bright learning spaces, and child-centered safety solutions.
„Engelberg sets new benchmarks for premium glazing in Uzbekistan”
ABIEV ILKHOM
Walter Engineering
„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 lines between urban, rural, and wilderness areas at their periphery. This growth, primarily fueled by real estate development through unplanned and insular peripheral settlements (ranging from gated communities to informal settlements), is leading to a crisis in public spaces and facilities. Centralized infrastructure, such as piped water, sewage systems, and public transport, struggles to keep pace with this expansion, resulting in inadequate or inequitable provision of social, sanitary, and cultural infrastructure for diverse populations. Through three distinct projects located in marginalized precincts of expanding cities—a green crematorium, decentralized slum toilets, and a disassemblable auditorium—Madhav will investigate possibilities for enhancing the "public-ness" of the urban fringe in South Asia.
„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.
Discussions
PANEL 4
„Learning from Our Own Mistakes: An Honest Conversation about Architecture /Ошибки архитектора в успешных проектах”
ALEXEY IVZHENKO
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.
"Mad Architects. Mad Works"
ANDREA D'ANTRASSI
Partner Mad Architects China, Europe Office - Italy
Discussions
13.30 - 14.15 | Lunch Break
14.15 - 15.55 | SESSION III
PANEL 5
„Creation of unique attractions for the development of tourism in the regions of Uzbekistan”
UCHKUN IKHTIYOROVICH TUKHTAEV
UAG Arch Design, Uzbekistan
The lecture will be based on the role of the Plov Museum as a center for the development of national cultural and gastronomic tourism in Uzbekistan, as well as on tourism development sites in the Bostanlyk district of the Tashkent region.
"Toward culturally smart destination"
HARRY DOBBS
Founder of Harry Dobbs Design, UK
Drawing on of Architecture and Urban Design practice across Europe, Middle East & Asia as well as North America, Harry Dobbs Design (HDD) proposes a 'Culturally Smart' strategy for contemporary destination design and development. This approach focuses on utilising advanced technology to reconnect the logic of large-scale, fast-pace top-down economic and infrastructure strategies with local material culture, making and supply chain. Utilising the tactics of ‘Provenance-Based Innovation’ and ‘Incubator Accelerated Supply Chain’, it will explore how this approach can be used to deliver more culturally, economically and environmentally sustainable outcomes, and the unique sense of identity and connection to place that underpins successful destination.
"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.
"Cultural Heritage as a driver for urban change"
ANNE MARIE GALMSTRUP
Managing & Creative Director, Galmstrup Architects, UK
Our cultural and natural heritage represents the spirit of place, whether it's through their tangible or intangible means. It forms the roots of our physical and mental understanding and sense of comfort of urban realm, and it shapes the essence of our everyday life and the bustling cities we admire. Cultural heritage is active and dynamic like our favourite cities and towns and not static object or sites. In areas of rapid urban change cultural heritage gives us the essential tools for purposeful long-term planning. It can flourish local economies, preserve heritage, create opportunities, and encourage active citizenship. Cultural and natural heritage goes hand-in-hand with low-carbon and climate-resilient solutions to improve our urban realm and provide better civic space for everyone.
PANEL 6
„Presentation of MANAR Development’s first project — Yangi Chorsu.”
ALEKSEI BOLDIN,
Real estate expert in Moscow and Tashkent, founder of Summit Consulting and Assalom Estate
SERGEI TCHOBAN
CEO, TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten, Germany
Yangi Chorsu is MANAR Development’s first flagship project — the redevelopment of Tashkent’s iconic Chorsu Square. The plan envisions a mixed-use complex (hotel, office, and residential), with energy-efficient façades, green pedestrian galleries, and restored walkability linking to Chorsu Bazaar and Kukeldash Madrasah. The project will transform this area into a modern hub of the Old City, preserving its cultural memory while shaping a new urban landmark.
Discussions
15.55 - 16.25 | Coffee Break
16.25 - 18.15 | SESSION IV
Large-Scale Architectural Projects
PANEL 7
Introduction lecture made by TEMUR AKHMEDOV, Green Council Uzbekistan
''New Uzbekistan's Urban Transformation: Building a Sustainable Future on Ancient Foundations
Challenges & Opportunities''
DENIS BIŠKUP
Head of Brand Management Zumtobel & SBS, CEE
„Architecture underground”
BALAZS CSAPO
Founder PARGRAM Studio, 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.
PAOLO MATTEUZZI
Director ZAHA HADID Architects, UK
KEY SESSION DEBATE
Regional Climate Risks and its relation to UNSDGs;
History, Vernacular, modern Tech and Identity; Desertification and cool cities
Moderator: TEMUR AKHMEDOV, Green Council Uzbekistan
Co-Moderator & Panelist: IMAN O. GAWAD, Vice-Dean of the British University in Egypt, Codirector of the UIA commission on the SDG, Councilor and Chairperson Habitat and Environment Commission Africa Union of Architects AUA
Panelists:
Balazs Csapo, Founder PARAGRAM Studio, Hungary
Maruf Saitkhodjaev, First deputy chairman of the Union of Architects of Uzbekistan
Alexey Ivzhenko, Founder Basire Design Group, Kazakhstan
Abiev Ilkhom, Walter Engineering
Bobir Klichev, Founder ARC Bureau, Uzbekistan
Marc Raehse, Leader, International Projects, LIXIL Europe, Grohe
Paolo Matteuzzi, Director ZAHA Hadid Architects, UK
Nozim Akhmetov, Founder of Me’mor magazine
Concluding Remarks and Official Group Photograph