Arthur Mamou-Mani

Arthur Georges Joel Mamou-Mani, AAdip ARB/RIBA FRSA (born 5 February 1983, Paris) is a French architect. Mamou-Mani is director of the architecture and design practice Mamou-Mani Ltd which specializes in a new kind of pop-up, digital fabrication led architecture.^[1]

Biography

He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster^[2] in London and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the FabPub. Mamou-Mani has given speeches including the TEDx conference in the United States,^[3] the Develop3D Live^[4] Conference and the Taipei Technical University in Taiwan. His work was featured at the Process Exhibition in Shanghai^[5] and at the Sto Werkstatt in London.^[6] He currently lives in London.^[7]

He studied at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais^[8] and in London, in 2003, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He then worked at Zaha Hadid Architects, Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Proctor and Matthews Architects^[9] for three years. In 2011, he started teaching Diploma Studio 10 at the university of Westminster with Toby Burgess. To allow their students to share their ideas, they both created the online platform WeWantToLearn.net^[10] receiving 600,000 views since its creation.^[11][12] Arthur also founded his practice Mamou-Mani ltd in 2011. The projects include the Magic Garden for Karen Millen^[13][14][15] and the 3D Pop-Up Studio for the Xintiandi shopping mall in Shanghai, one of the first component-based, fully 3D Printed pavilion (with Andrei Jipa and Stephany Xu)^[16][17] Another pop-up project is "The Fitting Room" designed in collaboration with James K. Cheung of ARUP Associates^[18] a large origami tree made of 500 laser-cut polypropylene folded pieces.^[19] In March 2016, he participates with Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Toby Burgess, Linda Aitken and Els Leclerq, to a Samsung report that explores such questions as "How will we live; how will we work; how will we relax?".^[20]

Awards

• 2013: Crown Estate's best RIBA display for "The Magic Garden" at Karen Millen's flagship store on Regent Street^[21]
• 2014: VM & Display best Christmas display^[22]
• 2016: Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Gallery

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  "The Magic Garden" for Karen Millen by Arthur Mamou-Mani

See also

• 3D printing
• List of TED speakers

References

External links

• Official website
• Strategies Using Grasshopper®
• Interview, in the Shanghai Daily
• Abitare sull'acqua, in La Repubblica
• The future of Britain? floating cities and high-rise farmsy, in The Telgraph
• Stackable housing pods, underwater cities, printed houses: Looking ahead at the city of the future, in WTTV
• From floating cities to high rise farms: Experts outline the future of Britain's architecture, in The Independent