Nasser Abulhasan and Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea, Principals and Founding Partners of AGi architects, participated as speakers at two professional symposiums at the Yale and Harvard Architecture Schools held last week.

Under the global title “Material Light::Light Material”, the Yale symposium challenged the increasing normalization of homogeneous environments through an exploration of the behavior of light and its interaction with human perception. Joaquín and Nasser had the opportunity to show the AGi architects’ work in the section “Perceptual Light”, sharing ideas and ways of working with two other panelists from Switzerland and the USA.

On the other hand, the symposium held at Harvard University, After dark: nocturnal landscapes and public spaces in the Arabian Peninsula, explored typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Peninsula, and similar hot climates, and looked for responses to the question: how to design for life after dark? This time, Nasser and Joaquín participated in the panel discussion “Designing for Darkness”, showing the way in which AGi architects design their single-family homes in a desert climate, adapting their solutions to the local context and environment.