Meet Arthur Mamou-Mani (Founder & Director at Mamou-Mani Architects)
For this episode we went to London and sat down with Arthur Mamou-Mani, french architect in charge of this year’s Main Temple (Galaxia) at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA.
Arthur is director of the award-winning practice Mamou-Mani Architects , specialized in a new kind of digitally design and fabricated architecture.
He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster in London and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called FabPub , which allows people to experiment with large 3D printers and laser cutters . Since 2016 he is a fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce .
Arthur gave numerous talks including the TedX Conference in the USA and has been featured in The New York Times and Forbes . His clients include ARUP, Buro Happold Engineering , The Burning Man Festival , and Food Ink, among others.
In our first ever video interview we touched different topics ranging from his early beginnings as a designer, how we got into The Burning Man Festival , the future of design and much more. Hope you enjoy it!
Interview with Arthur Mamou-Mani
Short on time? No worries! Here’s the list of questions we asked and at what point of the interview you can find them:
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(00:20) What’s your background?
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(01:21) What’s your first memory regarding Parametric Design?
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(02:20) What type of work do you create at your studio?
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(03:03) What does The Burning Man Festival represent to you?
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(04:15) What does this year’s selection as lead designer mean to you?
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(05:30) Why should people contribute and donate this year?
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(06:53) How big is the temple?
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(07:14) Is Burning Man a place for architectural experiments?
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(08:03) Was there a spiritual influence when you designed the temple?
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(09:06) What does your design workflow look like?
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(10:09) Which software do you use the most?
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(11:13) Where do you see Parametric Design in the future?
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(13:27) Final thoughts, important links.
IMPORTANT: Don’t forget to donate in order to make this amazing Galaxia project happen!
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That’s it for this fifth episode of Designers Corner! You can contact or check out Arthur’s work directly at his Instagram account and website .
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