SHARE Georgia 2026 Forum

Speakers:


Denis Lacej
Design Principal, Gerber Architekten (Germany)
"King Salman Park: Designing a New Green Heart for Riyadh"
King Salman Park is presented as the transformation of a former airfield into a major urban park. It explores how landscape, ecology and infrastructure are integrated through climate-responsive landforms, extensive planting, water management, shaded public spaces and pedestrian networks, offering practical insights into sustainable park design and implementation at metropolitan scale.


Nikoloz Lekveishvili
Co-founder, TIMM Architecture (Georgia)
"Protection as Architectural Communication"
The lecture examines protection as both a physical necessity and a form of architectural communication. Through the Inverted House and House of Iron Doors, it explores how charred timber, heavy envelopes and transformable thresholds can express protection, vulnerability, trust and hospitality. The focus is on tectonic expression, material transformation and the moment when a protective boundary is deliberately opened, turning architecture from shelter into a communicative gesture.


Alireza Taghaboni
Founder & C.E.O, Next Office (Iran)
"Public Sphere: in two scales."
In my presentation, I will discuss how our projects attempt to keep the public realm active within Iran’s current social, economic, and political context. The public realm, institutions, and interactions among people may be among the few means through which we can endure the unstable conditions of the country.This is why these two projects—the Poet’s House and Kish Mixed-Use Center—one operating at a large urban scale and the other at an even larger scale, aim to demonstrate how the public realm can remain active and resilient within an architectural project.


Nikoloz Japaridze
Founder, Architects of Invention (Georgia)


Beni Kohen
Marketing and Business Development Group Manager, Fibrobeton Yapı Elemanları San. Ins. Tic. A.S., Turkey


Zinka Borodkina
CMO, The Lake by Placemakers


Akaki Chkhaidze
Executive Director, Studio 9 (Georgia)
"The Power of Integration: Shaping Modern Landmarks from Concept to Reality"
This talk highlights how Studio 9's local expertise and global alliances merge to deliver award-winning landmarks.

Speakers:


Luka Chaganava
Founder, NS Studio (Georgia)


Artak Knyazyan
Chairman / Founder-Partner / Chief Architect, AGL Group (Armenia)
"HEVN: Urban Continuity, New Identity"
A contemporary residential development that preserves the memory of place while introducing a new architectural and urban identity.


Giorgi Keidia
Head of design management, CMC


Shota Saganelidze
Co-founder, teamtwo (Georgia)
"Architecture Between Context and Constraint"
Two projects exploring how distinct design conditions — local context and public purpose on one side, global standards and operational requirements on the other — can generate different architectural responses.


Patricia Sturzoiu
Partner, Quadratum Architecture (România)
"Labirint - Educational and community campus"
A living reconstruction where education, faith, and community come together around a shared history.


Armand Vokshi
Founder, Avatelier (Albania)
"Place, Memory, and Transformation: The Architectural Practice of Avatelier"
An exploration of Avatelier’s design methodology, balancing the spirit of place with the demands of contemporary Mediterranean and Balkan landscapes.


Jürgen C.B Willen
Lead Architect, KVL International GmbH


Tobias Wallisser
CEO / Founding Partner, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) (Germany)
"inquire.imagine.invent."
What if architecture, informed by scientific inquiry, could spark our imagination and redefine our understanding of the built world?

IN MEMORIAM ARCHITECT VAKHTANG DAVITAIA. Hon FAIA. IAA. MAAM. PAACH. (1934-2026)


22.12.1934 – Born in the village Dzveli-Senaki of Senaki district, Georgia. 1958 – Graduated from Georgian Polytechnic Institute, Civil Engineering Faculty, Department of Architecture. 1958-1962 – Institute of Design “Gruzgiprogorstroi”. From 1962 to present – Post-Graduate student, assistant, assistant professor, Full professor, Chairman of the Department of architecture of Georgian Technical University (GTU). PROFESSIONAL POSITION. ELECTION. The President of Union of Architects of Georgia, 1995-2000. The President of the Forum of Architects of the Black Sea Region, 1997-2000. Academician of International academy of Architecture /IAA/, 1994. Academician and Board member of branch of International Academy of Architecture in Moscow (MAAM), 1991. Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences, Foreign Member of Ukraine Academy of Architecture, Academician of Engineering Academy of Georgia, 1996. Member of the committee of state prizes for literature, art and architecture, 1992-2007. Member of the Board of Ministry of Culture of Georgia, 1996-1999. Member of professor’s council of GTU, 1995-2005. Member of professor’s council of State Academy of fine arts of Tbilisi, 1995-2005. TITLE. Master of Arts of Georgia. “Knight of Architecture”, “Knight of Culture”. AWARDED. The Highest award of Georgian Technical University – The Medal of Giorgi Nikoladze. 2004. HONORARY MEMBERSHIP. Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects, 1991. Honorary Professor of Mal del Plata National University, 1987, (Argentina) and of Architectural College Jalisco State, 1988, (Mexico). Visiting professor of Ball State University, 1989, 1991, (USA). Honorary Citizen of Poti, 1980, Senaki, 2016, Tbilisi, 2013 (Georgia), Muncie, 1989, (Indiana, USA). Honorary Member of Union of Architects of Bulgaria, 1994. AWARDS: Rustaveli State Prize, USSR State Prize, Georgian State Prize, Georgian Council Ministers Prize, Georgian Komsomol Prize, Prize of the World Biennale of Architecture “Interarch-83”, “Interarch-85”, “Interarch-2012”, “Interarch-2015”, “Interarch-2018”; Prize winner of “All-Union contest of the best architectural design of the year” – 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990; Prize winner of “All-Union contest of the best building of the year” – 1986, 1989 (Grand Prix); Laureate of the International Biennale of Architecture in Tbilisi.


Moderators:
Florin Mindirigiu, Founder, SHARE Architects (România)
George Sulaberidze, Founder / SHARE Architects Ambassador in Georgia, ArtStudio (Georgia)