Prof. Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Katara General Manager (second right) with other officials during the opening of the exhibition.
Doha, Qatar: The Cultural Village Foundation, Katara opened on Thursday the exhibition of Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Design featuring 45 paintings.
The opening was led by Prof. Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Katara General Manager; Khaled Ahmed Mubarak Al Nasr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Society of Engineers and a number of members of the organisation, among others.
The exhibit is being held at Building 18 and will run until July 9. Hassan Abdel Salam, May Abdel Salam, and Hind Abdel Salam are among the engineers from the society who participated in this unique event.
Prof. Dr. Al Sulaiti expressed his admiration for the exhibition, saying: “Katara is keen to keep abreast of what is happening at all levels and open the way for all cultural and artistic approaches to all the transformations we are experiencing. Interest in artificial intelligence and learning about its great potential has become a cultural and artistic material from which many ideas for exhibitions and creative works can be inspired. Including this beautiful exhibition, which emphasises the importance of human creative work on the one hand, and artificial work on the other hand.”
For his part, Al Nasr said: “This exhibition is distinguished, as artificial intelligence was employed, and it was the creativity of the artists engineers Mai Abdel Salam, Hind Abdel Salam and Hassan Abdel Salam, as they worked on the idea of employing artificial intelligence in buildings in the future. We invite everyone to visit the exhibition and see what it contains of wonderful engineering and artistic paintings.”
About the exhibition, Engr. Hassan Abdel Salam said: “We tried to explore the applications of artificial intelligence in the production of architectural designs in order to open greater horizons for building buildings with different construction systems and inspired by some materials and raw materials that were not used before. We worked on what was presented in stages, just like any engineering design.”
“Artificial intelligence helps a lot in mixing two different worlds. Personally, I sought to delve deeper into the idea of mixing the Arab-Islamic civilisation with the buildings, because we need to see a trace of our history and monuments within the new architecture, especially since the Arab civilization abounds in many arts such as Arabic calligraphy, Islamic decoration, and others,” said Engr. Mai Abdel Salam.
