Arthur Georges Joel Mamou-Mani, AAdip ARB/RIBA FRSA (born 5 February 1983 in

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) 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.

Biography

Family

He is the nephew of Guy Mamou-Mani, the brother of Mathias Mamou-Mani, co-founder of Dynamic Beta Investments, the son of

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press officer Chantal Pottier and Alain Mamou-Mani, who wrote ''Beyond profit''.

Formation

He studied at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais and in London, in 2003, at the

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. He then worked at

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and

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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 receiving 600,000 views since its creation. Arthur also founded his practice Mamou-Mani ltd in 2011. The projects include ''the Magic Garden'' for

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and the 3D Pop-Up Studio for the

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shopping mall in Shanghai, one of the first component-based, fully 3D Printed pavilion (with Andrei Jipa and Stephany Xu) Another pop-up project is "The Fitting Room" designed in collaboration with James K. Cheung of ARUP Associates a large

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tree made of 500 laser-cut polypropylene folded pieces. In March 2016, he participates with

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, Toby Burgess, Linda Aitken and Els Leclerq, to a

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report that explores such questions as "How will we live; how will we work; how will we relax?".

Career

He is a lecturer at the

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in London and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the FabPub. Mamou-Mani has given speeches including the

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conference in the United States, the Develop3D Live Conference, and the Taipei Technical University in Taiwan. His work was featured at the Process Exhibition in Shanghai and at the Sto Werkstatt in London. He currently lives in London. In 2018, he built the

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Temple 2018, Galaxia, consisting of 20 timber truss petals converging as a spiral towards one point in the sky. He is the first non-US architect selected for this piece of art. In 2019, he designed Conifera, a 3D-printed bioplastic installation for COS, during Milan design week, in the 16th-century Palazzo Isimbardi. In 2022, he built the temple, Catharsis, at

Awards

*2013:

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's best

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display for "The Magic Garden" at

's flagship store on

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*2014: VM & Display best Christmas display *2016: Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. * 2020: Reward Architect by Pierre Cardin Prize of l’Académie des Beaux-artsPrix Pierre Cardin 2020
Académie des beaux arts

Gallery

References

External links

Official websiteStrategies Using Grasshopper®Interview
in the Shanghai Daily
Abitare sull'acqua
in La Repubblica

in The Telegraph
Stackable housing pods, underwater cities, printed houses: Looking ahead at the city of the future
in WTTV

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