“Usoolu” by Engineer and Architect Mohamed Ali

It is absolutely unfathomable that the Ministry has taken on to check drawings and that the Ministry does not see a conflict of interest in this. Behind the locked doors of the Ministry, where most all professionals from the very top to the very bottom are registered under the regulations and do practice, drawings of colleagues and self can easily be corrected, although everybody would wish this would not happen. The public would quickly perceive the Architects and Engineers at the Ministry to be super designers as their drawings never gets rejected and pass through with ease. Checking up on exact status and nudging a colleague would not be a problem. And these are the people tasked with regulating the registered and have now brought out an Usoolu whereby other registered professionals, on their watch is struck points and made to do CPDs and even get struck from the register if their drawings are deemed problematic.

Types, Materials & Techniques of Vernacular Architecture in the Maldives

AAM Talks, Public Lecture series joins the Final Year Architecture STUDENT WORKS EXHIBITION of Maldives National University for Lectures 2 and 3 in continuing its series exploring the Vernacular Architecture of the Maldives.

“Vernacular Architecture of the Maldives” – Lecture 2 – Typologies

“Vernacular Architecture of the Maldives”

AAM Open Lecture Series: “Vernacular Architecture of the Maldives” at Male’ City Hall from 25th May 2013, Ali Sahil and Zaha Ahmed AAM offers an open invitation to its members and the general public to these lectures.