PROFILE | YASMINE MAHMOUDIEH
DESIGN TALK
She combines the subtlety of a designer with the precision of an architect, which makes Yasmine Mahmoudieh perfectly qualified to talk about how the future living space will look
One of the highlights of the show came as early as the opening day when Yasmine Mahmoudieh spoke to a packed audience about the way we’ll soon be living. The world-renowned architect and interior designer not only delivered a fi nely illustrated lecture, but chose to base it on one of the hottest topics of the moment. A week later, I met her away from the crowds at her London club where our conversation was anything but micro; touching on everything from her international hotel portfolio, to her work on the Airbus A380 and the importance of materials. And, like the innate philosophy that drives her work, it was all about the detail. But fi rst, those micro apartments. As she told her audience, the future for most of us will be in cities, which poses a challenge for architects in the way we create our living spaces which will inevitably mean a trade-off between quantity and quality. “If you want space, you’ll have to live outside but the reality is that, if you want to be close to where you work, meet
people or just enjoy what the city has to offer, you have to live there,” she said. “So, it’s natural that our living spaces will have to get smaller, but they’ll also have to get smarter and be better designed.”
FACT FILE NAME : Yasmine Mahmoudieh TITLE : Architect/designer INFO : Born in Germany, of mixed Persian-German parentage, she studied Art History in Florence, Architecture at the École d’Interieur in Geneva and Interior Design at the College of Nôtre Dame in Belmont. She speaks six languages. |
mahmoudieh.com
Mini apartments, she said, have functions other than positioning and affordability. “We live in a world that’s getting increasingly digital, one dominated by social media where no-one has to talk to each other and I think people long for human interaction, which is why co-working concepts such as WeWork function so well. They don’t make people feel as if they are working; they feel as if they’re in a social space.” People will be prepared to sacrifi ce bigger private spaces for smaller ones with shared common facilities such as lounges, restaurants, gyms and libraries, all of which help people to connect, and more importantly, interact. The conversation switches to some of her keynote projects. We talk about her work on the Strand Atlantic Hotel in Germany.
Again, it’s all about the
detail, such as the way she used light to criss-cross the corridors, the use of subtly pixelated images of
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