Jul 31, 05:13 pm
Boutique City: Designing for Sale


In the 21st century the rush to consume anything from objects to culture and lifestyle has become synonymous with success. The UAE is now ranked among the top 10 international retail destinations. Dubai’s retail space is approaching 2 million square meters. The city is almost all about advertising, marketing and shopping in an act of ‘total lifestyle’.
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George presented Emerging Morpho(eco)logies at the International Conference on Patterning from Traditional to Contemporary Architecture, 16 October 2007, Tehran, Iran.
George has been invited as a member of the judging panel for the 2008 Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA), Dubai.
The scope of the publication is to look at Dubai’s architecture and urbanism with focus on its evolution (historical, social, cultural, contemporary) in the form of a documentation, presentation and analysis.
George Katodrytis, (Advisory Board member of the International Design Initiative) participated at the International Design Forum 27-29 May 2007, at the Madinat Conference Hall in Dubai.

Self-organization is a dynamic and adaptive process through which systems achieve and maintain survival without external control. The research and design of such morpho-(eco)logical systems engage the examination of physical systems in relation to their capacity to modulate climates, and spatial and programmatic opportunities.
The municipality building proposal is is an urban and public garden.
Image by George Katodrytis was selected for the cover of the Spanish Delegation of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The Dubai Experiment soon became the the Dubai Phenomenon. Is this now the beginning of the Dubai Success?