Samir Nicolas SADDI

Architect registered in Lebanon and Canada, he has more than four decades experience designing projects in the Arabian Gulf and other parts of the world. For the last 20 years, he managed the design and construction of iconic museum projects such as the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Grand Egyptian Museum.

He worked closely with a number of signature architects such as IM Pei, Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, Arata Isozaki, Ricardo Legoretta and Roger Tallibert, also with renown engineering firms such as Buro Happold and Technip, leading the work of most of these signature designers to ensure their visions were realized while delivering the highest quality, maintaining budget and meeting schedules.

As photographer and researcher, he travelled extensively and organized more than 30 solo exhibitions on themes mostly related to architecture. He founded ARCADE in Canada in the nineties with focus on researching sustainability, backed by an image library on the vernacular architecture of the Arab World and West Africa.

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