1st ibero-american interior arquitecture profession congress set to take place at Feria Hábitat

Feria Hábitat Valencia and the Comunidad Valenciana Guild of Interior Designers are jointly organising the 1st Ibero-American Congress for the Interior Architecture Profession, CIPAI. The Congress aims to provide an opportunity to examine and reflect upon interior architecture and the design of interiors.

CIPAI will build bridges between European and Ibero-American interior architects, enabling them to gain insights into each other’s culture and how they perceive the practice of their profession.

CIPAI, which takes place during Feria Hábitat Valencia, has set itself a number of objectives including providing a platform for information to be exchanged and opportunities to meet eminent architects and designers and for professionals from both sides of the ocean to forge relationships that will lead them to work together on projects in the future.  Other objectives include providing new experiences through the Workshops that will be complementing the congress and the opportunity for delegates to meet the companies exhibiting at the fair.

The Congress begins a day before the fair opens, on 27th September and runs until 29th.  It has been structured around a number of topics organised as themed days.  The first will focus on the home and lifestyles and will take up the Monday, 27th September.  The sessions on the 28th will look at the figure of the specifier and his/her relationship with products and industry and, finally, the last day will feature sessions on commercial interior design.

Famous names already confirmed as speakers
Patricia Urquiola, considered to be one of the most influential designers in the world, will be speaking at the congress. Chilean architect Mathias Klotz, who specialises in designing houses, schools and shopping malls all over the world, is also confirmed as a speaker as are Bruno Erpicum of Belgium, for whom aesthetics is defined by proportion; Italian architects and designers Ludovica+Roberto Palomba, who founded Palomba Serafini in 1994 and fellow Italian Fabio Novembre, considered to be one of the most important of the new generation of Italian designers

Arik Levy, who was born in Tel- Aviv, is now based in Paris and specialises in industrial, interior and graphic design projects, will also be speaking.  Brazilians
 Studio Arthur Casas and Isay Weinfeld complete the cast.