Impact
Professional
After being selected for the programme, Al-Hiyari was included in an Architectural Record feature article on the year’s top young architects (December 2002) and was profiled in the magazine Architecture +, published in Dubai. An invitation to participate in the design competition for the Kuwait City apartments came as a direct result of the Architectural Record article.
Personal
“The more I get to know Siza,” Al Hiyari says, “the more I like him as a person. He really is wonderful.” Although the pair spent much of their time discussing the theory of architecture, they also looked closely at the details of buildings and reviewed Al-Hiyari’s designs for his current projects. “His feedback on my works has been very thought provoking and constructive,” Al-Hiyari comments. “It is carried out with a clarity and simplicity that only a person with a great mind is capable of”.